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Beta Swap for #OwnVoices YA Fantasy
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I'd be down to swap. Don't expect me to be remotely useful when it comes to grammar, but I'm pretty good at keeping details straight (even if the character is queer) and highlighting when the narrative is sagging. Also reading your blub, I flat out just want to read your book.I've got an 86 thousand word YA Superhero/Urban Fantasy that needs a good going over. It's got a gay romance sub plot, authority figures with malignant personality disorders, oodles of female characters who aren't romantic interests, a giant bison that transforms into a fighting mech robot in the first chapter, and a school that's basically hogwarts for assholes.
Hey! Thanks for the reply--your pitch sounds pretty awesome, and I'd definitely be up for a swap. About to send a DM!
Willing to trade for fantasy, horror, romance, YA, and MG of comparable length, though I'll definitely talk if you've got another genre, and I'm open to read things that are up to 120k.
Experience: I've been beta reading and participating in critique groups for upwards of 6 years, and working as a freelance editor for 2. I hold a BA in English, am most of the way through an MA, and work part time as a bookseller.
What I'm looking for: Big picture feedback on plot and characters. I'm still making sure that all of the moving parts are in order, so I'd love to have a few readers who can take a broad view of the work rather than going in with a microscope. I'll send some feedback questions, and you're welcome to do the same.
Comment or DM if interested!
Title: Where The Sky Breaks
Blurb: For as long as Rat can remember, they’ve been haunted by dead passages; doors that shouldn’t exist and hallways that snake off the edges of the map. No one else can see the passages, and they have always, always been empty.
Except for once.
Terrified of where the passages might lead or what might get through, Rat has done their best to stick to spaces they know well and keep a low profile. But that becomes a lot harder when the only other person who knows their secret shows up at their new boarding school, threatening to reveal everything.
Especially because they know for a fact that his application was rejected. Especially because he’s hanging out with a group of students who have power, influence, and an uncanny fascination with the school’s uncharted basements and service hallways. And especially because before he disappeared last summer, he used to be their closest friend.