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Shreyonti wrote: "I'm looking for a beta reader for my 45,000 multicultural YA novel, 'Yours Inconveniently, S'. I'm willing to swap if that's necessary.The last two years haven’t been so pretty for S. He..."
Is the manuscript finished? If so, what do you expect from beta to do for you? I hope it is not flattery. Do you have time for reciprocity?
No, it's definitely not flattery. I need a straight beta read with opinion on story+ some proofreading for spelling and grammar (I've had people do that before, so I guess that's not that big a priority.Yes, I do have time for reciprocity.
The last two years haven’t been so pretty for S. Her mother killed herself, her dad turned freakishly overprotective and K, the love of her life, gently broke her heart. She thought moving to Kolkata for college would put an end to all the ‘bad’. Not only did it mean a fresh start, but also because news of the big rape case hadn’t yet reached the city.
S couldn’t be more wrong.
The new city is no place for the faint-hearted and definitely no place to start over. It’s a place where people claim to die if they don’t get fish, streets reek of oily food and anybody’s business is everybody’s business. Her roommates are old-fashioned know-it-alls, her landlady’s family tends to have ugly brawls at midnight, her classmates are divided in cliques she can’t fit into and she’s the only girl around who’s never been drunk, never had a real boyfriend and never been kissed.
And the worst part? She still can’t stop thinking about K. S starts writing letters to him, hoping to give him a glimpse of her life without him while still reminding him of what they almost had. But the letters soon take a darker shade, as the ‘big rape case’ slowly grips the city. And the case might just have something to do with S.
After graduating from high school two years ago, I moved to Kolkata for college. My experiences in the city inspired me to write this book and many of the characters are based on real people. If you liked The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and The Perks of Being a Wallflower, you will enjoy this novel.