Beta readers for How I Met Your Brother

I am writing like a mad woman. A mad woman who is a slow writer, that is, and often has to stop to answer emails or take phone calls from her children. So basically I’m writing like I usually usually am, only with more panic involved and less showering and cleaning.

I started How I Met Your Brother (which I suddenly realize could have been the title for the third Slayers book) in May and my goal is to have it finished July 15-Aug 1. I have to have it edited, fixed, and up on Amazon by Nov 1 as it is part of a group of books being released on the first of each month. (The Matchmaker series. They’re all stand alone books but involve the same matchmaker.) I’ve never written a book under such a time crunch. This is made even harder by the fact that I chose the cover, title, and wrote the book description in 2015. Now that I want to throw ninjas into the story–well, it’s too late. I already told everyone that it was part Sabrina and While You Were Sleeping. Both movies have precious few ninjas.

And that dear writers, is why you should never write a book description before you write the book.

Oh, and did I mention that I’ll be receiving the copy edits of Slayers: Playing With Fire any day now? Those will need some work before I can put them up.

Anyway, whenHow I Met Your Brother is finished, I’ll need beta readers. Beta readers are basically readers who read your manuscript and tell you which parts you need to change. Like, maybe they tell you that your hero is being a jerk in one scene. Or they don’t understand something. Or they think a scene is slow, etc.  If they’re nice beta readers, they also tell you what they like so you don’t cut it.

The book will probably be around 250 pages. Maybe less. I’ll need notes back on it within a couple of weeks of sending the manuscript out. If you are interested in being a beta reader, send me an email at jrallisonfans @ yahoo.com (You’ll need to take the spaces out of the email address. I put them in to avoid spam from robots.)