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Seeking sensitivity reader for OCD rep - 89k MG fantasy
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Oh hi, I didn't thought anyone would actually seek someone like me for a task. I'm currently self-diagnosed, always trying to cope with the fast paced world. I don't have enough money to get myself a therapist yet. I'm still working toward it. I'm open to discussing it as long as it doesn't get too personal. But I gueas you're just looking if I could relate to her or not. Your story seems very interesting to me though it's for the middle grade. I can beta read it within 14-16 days. Just to be clear, are you looking for constructive criticism or just a general eye from someone like me?
Hi. I’m interested in your concept. I have years of beta reading experience, mainly on CritiqueCircle.com. Moreover, I have bipolar disorder, a history of anxiety and depression, and a solid understanding of OCD. Email me the first couple of chapters of your novel and I’ll get back to you, let you know if I can help.
DO NOT send your whole novel. Never send your whole novel to people until you know you can trust them for sure.
Please send it to nathanjpj@hotmail.com
Best, Nathan Jones
I am looking for a beta/sensitivity reader who can give me input on the OCD and anxiety experienced by a character in my story. Someone with ownvoice experience is strongly preferred. I have done research and spoken with mental health professionals, and am now looking for the input of someone with personal experience with OCD to help me make sure this is a helpful representation.
Book blurb:
Dart Angels is half human, half frog, and fully poisonous to the touch.
She doesn’t exactly hate the poisonous part—mosquitoes are never a problem, at least—but it is seriously stressful. With the threat of poisoning people constantly in the back of her mind, Dart is on the hunt for someone to relax with. Someone she can touch without endangering. A species mate.
Except in all twelve years of being half frog and bright blue, Dart has yet to find another animid like her.
When the Biomes open in Crest City, Dart finds herself standing in an imitation rainforest, staring at an animid who looks astonishingly like herself. But instead of rushing into each other’s arms, Dart winds up chasing her species mate away from a crime scene and up a wall where they vanish into thin air. Dart is left behind, making her the prime suspect of a mass poisoning and one of only two eyewitnesses of the other animid’s existence.
Together with the other eyewitness, an irritating Cockatoo animid, Dart sets off to track down her species mate and prove her innocence. But when mass poisonings keep occurring and her species mate keeps vanishing, Dart realizes that clearing her own name will mean blaming—and losing—her species mate.
Her only other option is to find a better explanation for the attacks within the Biomes. But her hunt for answers unveils more questions. Questions about herself, her family, and whatever it is that makes her poisonous. Questions that make her wonder if chasing one person like herself has turned into chasing someone unlike anyone their planet has ever known.
Or, at least, unlike anyone their planet has ever remembered.
DART ANGELS AND THE LAKE OF SECRETS is a 89,000-word middle grade fantasy, featuring a young main character with OCD.