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♠ TABI⁷ ♠ (tabi_card) Hello everyone!

So I've decided to start a project for funding BUT I want to make sure my material I'm going to post (my book is unique, told in ten-part-no-chapter-only-scenes sections and I don't want to post the whole book, just the first part) is at the best it can possibly be.

My request: anyone interested in reading the first part and sending feedback-slash-edits? Whatever notes you can give me I will heartily accept, as I'm the type of writer where I don't like posting something for publication unless it's the best I can give.

Title: Afterwards

Genre: Young-Adult/Post-apocalyptic
Early beta readers called the writing style-slash-story a mix between John Green's "Fault In Our Stars" and Veronica Roth's "Divergent".

If you're interested, please email me at tcbbcfangirl@gmail.com

P.S. If this request isn't in the appropriate section, I apologize and will move it if that is so.


message 2: by Yicheng (new)

Yicheng Liu (liu0019) | 229 comments Cool. I'm interested. Expect an email soon.


message 3: by Jemimah (new)

Jemimah Brewster (oddfeather) Hi Tabi,

I'm happy to beta-read for you - I'm currently beta-reading for another Inkshares author and it's going quite well. I have experience and qualifications in writing and editing and am looking for other's work to practice. Also your story sounds fascinating.
I'll email you soon.

~ Jemma


message 4: by ♠ TABI⁷ ♠ (last edited Oct 08, 2015 12:18PM) (new)

♠ TABI⁷ ♠ (tabi_card) Thanks for the interest! I'll respond to your emails at the latest by this evening - got bit of a busy day ahead of me, but again thank you for your help! =)


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James (JamesWilliamsEditor) | 2 comments I don't jnow if its better to publish in INKSHARE or in AMAZON KINDLE SCOUT. What do you think?


♠ TABI⁷ ♠ (tabi_card) It really depends on what you want, but my research has shown that if you meet the Inkshare pre-order goals then the process of getting your book published is given to a team whereas with Amazon, if you want professional work that you don't have the skills or knowledge of all of that comes out of your pocket instead of, like Inkshares, from the pre-order funds.

So it really depends on whether or not you're willing to shell out money for publishing work done now or willing to go through the process of crowd-funding to gather your funds through Inkshares.

Does that help? I'm no expert on Inkshares seeing as I just learned about it and if you have any other questions I'm going to say ask one of the mods/most active members on here a.k.a. the experts ;)


♠ TABI⁷ ♠ (tabi_card) I'm in the need for beta readers again, and I'm looking for both plot arc and consistency, as well as a smooth story in the amount of time I've taken to tell it. This is for my upcoming paperback release Five Minutes and I'd like to have all feedback in by the end of December. I will have a manuscript ready to email by Friday at the absolute latest, but I'm just going over the big grammar hi-jinks and it should be done by Wednesday.

Again, if you're interested you can email me at tcbbcfangirl@gmail.com and if you choose to help me, I would be more than grateful.


message 8: by Yicheng (new)

Yicheng Liu (liu0019) | 229 comments Tabi wrote: "I'm in the need for beta readers again, and I'm looking for both plot arc and consistency, as well as a smooth story in the amount of time I've taken to tell it. This is for my upcoming paperback r..."

I'm pretty interested. Always here! :D


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