Beta Reader Needed

You want someone to read your work, and yet you have nothing whatsoever on here about it. Ask yourself this, would you take a book off the shelf, in a shop, that had a plain cover on it, no blurb, no genre, no nothing, then buy it and read it? No, neither would I. And this come from someone who used to do a load of beta reading on here, but I would never take on something I knew absolutely nothing about.

I'm porting this to the beta readers' forum. Do please post the genre, word count, and a blurb of the book so it can find a congenial reader. Good luck!

You might also want to link to your query in the Query Hell SYW forum and your first chapter thread in the Mystery, Thriller & Suspense SYW forum. Then beta readers can check out your writing and see if it works for them before committing.

This probably explains why no one wants to take up my offer.

Yup. Like most people, I have genres I read a lot, genres I dabble in, and genres I avoid diligently. If I can't tell what genre a work is, I'm not going to volunteer a big chunk of my time to read it. What if it's one of the ones I detest?

I second the suggestion to share the first chapter at the appropriate Share Your Work board and to back up any requests for beta readers by providing a link to that chapter plus a description of the whole, the sort of thing you'd put in a query letter.

Maryn, having internet trouble