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So, You Want to Be a Sensitivity Reader?
Whether you call them Sensitivity Readers, Diversity Editors or Targeted Beta Readers; their goals are the same: to add authenticity to manuscripts, scripts, marketing materials, gaming storylines which feature marginalized groups... and it's a booming business in need of trained individuals LIKE YOU.
Sensitivity Readers, Diversity Editors and Targeted Beta Readers are not hired to edit out creativity, but to simply offer suggestions or alternatives, if needed. It is up to the client whether to use any of the suggestions or not.
Sensitivity Readers, Diversity Editors and Targeted Beta Readers have personal experience within a certain niche and are available to authors, publishers, gaming or marketing companies who include diversity within their creative content and want to make sure they are not unintentionally including bias or misrepresentation of a particular group.
To explain it even further, it is just another tool in the writer's belt to use.
Example: If you wrote a TV show based in a hospital or courtroom and you have zero experience in either, wouldn't you hire a consultant who is a doctor or attorney to read over your script to make sure you're getting it correct? You now understand what Sensitivity Readers, Diversity Editors and Targeted Beta Readers do.
What Are *Some* of These Groups?
- Minority Groups
- Different Cultures
- Different Religious Groups
- The Disabled or Physically Challenged
- The LGBTQ community
- Medial/Mental Disorders, etc.
If you are an avid reader, a writer or author and want to offer this service, then this book is for you.
You Will Learn:
- What exactly a Sensitivity Reader is (and Isn't)
- How to discover your niche
- What a Sensitivity Review Covers (and doesn't)
- How to can get started in the business and make a good living at it
Sensitivity Readers, Diversity Editors and Targeted Beta Readers are not hired to edit out creativity, but to simply offer suggestions or alternatives, if needed. It is up to the client whether to use any of the suggestions or not.
Sensitivity Readers, Diversity Editors and Targeted Beta Readers have personal experience within a certain niche and are available to authors, publishers, gaming or marketing companies who include diversity within their creative content and want to make sure they are not unintentionally including bias or misrepresentation of a particular group.
To explain it even further, it is just another tool in the writer's belt to use.
Example: If you wrote a TV show based in a hospital or courtroom and you have zero experience in either, wouldn't you hire a consultant who is a doctor or attorney to read over your script to make sure you're getting it correct? You now understand what Sensitivity Readers, Diversity Editors and Targeted Beta Readers do.
What Are *Some* of These Groups?
- Minority Groups
- Different Cultures
- Different Religious Groups
- The Disabled or Physically Challenged
- The LGBTQ community
- Medial/Mental Disorders, etc.
If you are an avid reader, a writer or author and want to offer this service, then this book is for you.
You Will Learn:
- What exactly a Sensitivity Reader is (and Isn't)
- How to discover your niche
- What a Sensitivity Review Covers (and doesn't)
- How to can get started in the business and make a good living at it
78 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 29, 2018
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About the author
Patrice Williams Marks
25 books44 followerswww.PatriceWilliamsMarks.com
"I've been a writer since age 6 when I pinned the wildly successful (in my own mind) THE DAY SNOOPY GOT MARRIED. My teacher was so impressed that she shared it with the entire school staff. Unfortunately, I never got it back!
I've written over 10 screenplays; some of which have been optioned. Hoping one will make it to the big screen some day. I envision Universal's spinning globe, with it's majestic horns announcing the opening of the film ... my film. Gives me chills.
I've written and directed a few short films, "STRINGER," about a rogue photog on the edge of a nervous breakdown, and "F-HARMONY"; a funny spin on the dating site with an unexpected twist at the end. I've written and produced a short stage play, as well as founded "two film festivals. I've also written and produced/directed three book trailers..
After reading short stories from Derek Haas' (bad-ass, big time screenwriter and producer/creator of Chicago Fire) website, aptly called "Popcorn Fiction," (where he features short stories from writers), I decided to give it a go.
I came up the idea of THE UNFINISHED by marrying 1940's Film Noir with Sci-Fi. Love the idea of taking a character out of one world and implanting them in another... known as "fish out of water" story.
My lastest release, THE ABDUCTION OF NELLY DON; is a full length novel I am so proud of. It released July 2,
www.PatriceWilliamsMarks.com
Twitter: @PWilliamsMarks @Unfinished_The
Facebook.com/Author.PatriceWilliamsMarks
Keywords: film noir, crime, true crime, detective, 1940's, gumshoe, future, futuristic, short story, great depression, bootlegging, organized crime, gangsters, the dust bowl, bathtub gin, 1940s, 1930s, famous kidnapping
"I've been a writer since age 6 when I pinned the wildly successful (in my own mind) THE DAY SNOOPY GOT MARRIED. My teacher was so impressed that she shared it with the entire school staff. Unfortunately, I never got it back!
I've written over 10 screenplays; some of which have been optioned. Hoping one will make it to the big screen some day. I envision Universal's spinning globe, with it's majestic horns announcing the opening of the film ... my film. Gives me chills.
I've written and directed a few short films, "STRINGER," about a rogue photog on the edge of a nervous breakdown, and "F-HARMONY"; a funny spin on the dating site with an unexpected twist at the end. I've written and produced a short stage play, as well as founded "two film festivals. I've also written and produced/directed three book trailers..
After reading short stories from Derek Haas' (bad-ass, big time screenwriter and producer/creator of Chicago Fire) website, aptly called "Popcorn Fiction," (where he features short stories from writers), I decided to give it a go.
I came up the idea of THE UNFINISHED by marrying 1940's Film Noir with Sci-Fi. Love the idea of taking a character out of one world and implanting them in another... known as "fish out of water" story.
My lastest release, THE ABDUCTION OF NELLY DON; is a full length novel I am so proud of. It released July 2,
www.PatriceWilliamsMarks.com
Twitter: @PWilliamsMarks @Unfinished_The
Facebook.com/Author.PatriceWilliamsMarks
Keywords: film noir, crime, true crime, detective, 1940's, gumshoe, future, futuristic, short story, great depression, bootlegging, organized crime, gangsters, the dust bowl, bathtub gin, 1940s, 1930s, famous kidnapping
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December 17, 2018
Although I am Colombian and do not speak English very well, I made every effort to capture the message of Patrice, and I must say that this book is an indispensable guide for both writers and readers. I recommend it. Thanks to her advice and notes, I am facing several sensitivity readings and I hope to continue providing my services
March 25, 2019
I received a Mobi.file copy of this book from the author through a giveaway she had on LibraryThing and the following is my honest opinion.
It seems I’m already a Sensitivity Reader of sorts as I tend to write honest reviews. The books I read/reviewed have been won through the various sites which offer book giveaways: GoodReads, LibraryThing, Amazon and various FaceBook posts as well as those books I’ve bought myself or have read via a KINDLE Unlimited [KU] download from Amazon. In any case, if I should come across a book which seems to be insensitive to any group or individuals, I don’t do the review.
Sensitivity Readers according to the author, Patrice Williams Marks, are the lynchpins in making sure a book doesn’t infringe on any individual or group right to be treated in an honest and forthright manner and that the writing within the book itself doesn’t contain anything which might to construed as being biased.
Sensitivity Reader, just like the topics they cover, are inclusive, since in order to what would be sensitive towards something, one needs to have experience what it’s like to be it. Just think about this logically, the only person who can actually write about dissimilar religions, ethnic cultures, people who identify as LGBTQ are members of them, due to their first-hand experiences; if not, these writers need to utilize someone who is, such as a Sensitivity Reader.
These individuals don’t give a hoot about editing what has been physically written, but that what has been written is virtually error-free in what is being communicated.
Ms. Marks in this book covers, the essential soup to nuts of what a Sensitivity Reader actually is, what it takes to be one and find your appropriate area to deal with, and the essentials of getting into the business of being one.
While the Ms. Marks gives her readers a delightful, informative reading experience; for those who are truly interested in becoming a Sensitivity Reader the author just has happened to have created an extensive online course solely designed for these individuals. With all things considered, I’m giving this book 4 STARS.
It seems I’m already a Sensitivity Reader of sorts as I tend to write honest reviews. The books I read/reviewed have been won through the various sites which offer book giveaways: GoodReads, LibraryThing, Amazon and various FaceBook posts as well as those books I’ve bought myself or have read via a KINDLE Unlimited [KU] download from Amazon. In any case, if I should come across a book which seems to be insensitive to any group or individuals, I don’t do the review.
Sensitivity Readers according to the author, Patrice Williams Marks, are the lynchpins in making sure a book doesn’t infringe on any individual or group right to be treated in an honest and forthright manner and that the writing within the book itself doesn’t contain anything which might to construed as being biased.
Sensitivity Reader, just like the topics they cover, are inclusive, since in order to what would be sensitive towards something, one needs to have experience what it’s like to be it. Just think about this logically, the only person who can actually write about dissimilar religions, ethnic cultures, people who identify as LGBTQ are members of them, due to their first-hand experiences; if not, these writers need to utilize someone who is, such as a Sensitivity Reader.
These individuals don’t give a hoot about editing what has been physically written, but that what has been written is virtually error-free in what is being communicated.
Ms. Marks in this book covers, the essential soup to nuts of what a Sensitivity Reader actually is, what it takes to be one and find your appropriate area to deal with, and the essentials of getting into the business of being one.
While the Ms. Marks gives her readers a delightful, informative reading experience; for those who are truly interested in becoming a Sensitivity Reader the author just has happened to have created an extensive online course solely designed for these individuals. With all things considered, I’m giving this book 4 STARS.
August 30, 2019
A quick read, though short on details
This book does best when explaining what a sensitivity reader is, what their qualifications should be, and how sensitivity reading fits into the publication process. If you are just interested in knowing what a “sensitivity reader is, this will give you a sense of that.
However, if you were interested in actually getting started as a sensitivity reader, there is precious little here to get started with. In particular, there is no discussion, examples of the format or contents of a report a sensitivity reader might submit to their client. That seems like an oversight, for a book purporting to help someone get into the business not to cover that business’s main work product. Perhaps that is something covered in the author’s course, which the last 20% or so of the book spends trying to upsell?
(I received a review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.)
This book does best when explaining what a sensitivity reader is, what their qualifications should be, and how sensitivity reading fits into the publication process. If you are just interested in knowing what a “sensitivity reader is, this will give you a sense of that.
However, if you were interested in actually getting started as a sensitivity reader, there is precious little here to get started with. In particular, there is no discussion, examples of the format or contents of a report a sensitivity reader might submit to their client. That seems like an oversight, for a book purporting to help someone get into the business not to cover that business’s main work product. Perhaps that is something covered in the author’s course, which the last 20% or so of the book spends trying to upsell?
(I received a review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.)
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