Beta readers needed, please

After several revisions, I’m finally ready to send out beta copies of Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, book 1 in the Alice the Wolf series. I’m looking for beta readers among folks who’ve read Peter the Wolf, and also for those who haven’t. From the people who didn’t read the first series, I’m curious to know if they feel lost, or if I’ve given enough background info to put them in the loop without going too far into history dumps.

I’m looking for people willing to point out typos and mistakes, or even just to mention what doesn’t work for them, or what feels confusing or ambiguous. Beta readers don’t need to give detailed book reports unless they feel like it.

For those who don’t know about either series, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore follows several years after the events of Peter the Wolf. In the final book in Peter’s series, Peter Holmes admitted that his abuse of Alice had been harmful to her, and he turned himself over the FBI and left Alice Culpepper to give her space to grow up without him. Since then, Alice has slowly healed from the torture she suffered under Peter’s vindictive mother, Naomi Lupita, and she’s come to accept that her relationship with Peter was wrong. But she’s still a social outcast with few friends among the local humans and weredogs, and her problems with her lycanthropy only get worse after she suffers lunar madness while babysitting a child for a friend of the family. Needing to find a way to vent from the constant stress of hiding her secret animal nature, Alice decides to make an abrupt change by playing football at Dallas High School. Becoming a team player gives her a place to belong, and her outlook on life improves. Then she encounters a new werewolf who follows her back to town, and with its arrival, much more is at risk than her social life. The secrets the wolf brings will rattle Alice’s faith in her family and force her to choose between protecting the people she loves or siding with the wolf who wants them dead.

Sound interesting? If you’d like to get a doc copy of the first book in the series, you can email me at zoe_whitten@yahoo.com, or you can tweet to me on my Twitter account. And if you like the first book, I’ll be sure to ask you to beta the other books in the series when they’re ready. But you’re under no obligation to read the whole thing. So if you just want to check out the first book, you can do that too.

I’m going to hold off on further revisions to the other books until I head back from the first round of beta readers. I don’t want to tinker too much if it turns out I need to ax or add stuff to address their concerns. In any case, thanks in advance to anyone who volunteers to check out the new series. With your help, maybe this can be my best work ever.