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Seeking beta swap for 45k portal fantasy
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Hi, Derek! If you're still looking, I'd be willing to swap. I'd be willing to read through your manuscript digitally and leave comments as I go, do short writeups on each chapter, and even provide a full-on critique if you're interested.I posted a solicitation for beta readers that summarizes my WIP here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
In short, I'd be looking for beta reader feedback on the first 30k words of a dark epic fantasy novel. At minimum, I'm looking for written answers to some specific questions that I have about each chapter, but if you have the time, I'd hugely appreciate inline comments on a Google Doc or .docx of the story with "live feedback" on your reading experience.
Let me know if you're interested, and I can DM you with my Gmail address!
Hi Riley! Sounds, DM me and we can get started.
Unfortunately, I'm having difficulty getting the GoodReads DM feature to work; when I try typing your name into the "To:" field, no drop-down shows up to let me select your profile. Please let me know if you know how to work around this; either way, I've sent you a friend request in the hopes that I can send you a DM that way!
Hi Derek! This sounds interesting. I'm also writing fantasy, have a completed novel that I'm looking for feedback on. I can send you more details over DM. Maybe we could share the first couple of chapters and see if we'll make a good fit?I'll send you a friend request. I think we need to be connected in order to send each other DMs.
I have not published a novel but I have published non-fiction books. I am not particular about what genre you want me to read, although I think I would be better at sci-fi, fantasy, adventure, or literary fiction than romance. I am interested in mysteries but I haven't read many so my critique may not be as insightful. I'm flexible on what length I would read but I think 100k words would be pushing it.
My blurb: Peter Vess wakes up in a peasant cottage and a vastly different world than his 21st century American home. He has been magically summoned to help the kingdom of Ganorich in their long war with the goblins of Fengria, which appears on the verge of disaster. At 16, Peter is fully grown and a head taller than the inhabitants of this new world, but he is full of self-doubt and not at all sure that he should risk his life in battle. The story weaves together Peter's conflicting senses of obligation and self-preservation. He also struggles with the alien and uncomfortable world that he has been thrown into. He is constantly challenged to reconcile perception with reality, particularly because the people here are the size of children but far surpass him in experience.