I am looking for a beta for a completed and self-edited work: I am happy to send some sample chapters on a no-obligation basis, for you to decide if it is worth investing your precious time in my book. DM me with what you would like to see before committing. This particular book isn't on SYW but one of my short stories is up on the Erotica SYW board.
Title: The Hysterical Bride
Manuscript Genre: Erotic historical M/F romance
Manuscript Word Count: 67,500 words
Warnings: Doctor-patient relationship. Explicit M/F sex (mostly vanilla, some very mild S-M play). Infrequent (very) bad language.
Blurb:
Dr Stephen Todd is proud of the career as a physician he has built from nothing in 1760s London. New patient Caroline Grant isn't hysterical, just unlucky in love, but Stephen knows the usual treatment—massaging her to 'relief'—will prepare her as well as he can for an unsatisfactory marriage.
Caroline is resigned to the choice between marrying her awful fiancé and staying a childless bluestocking spinster for life. Meeting Dr Todd opens up some disturbing and thrilling new possibilities: what might life be like with a man who listens with respect and sets her whole being on fire with a simple touch?
Stephen finds himself torn: Caroline is in desperate need of a white knight, but he has sworn never to violate his Hippocratic oath. If Caroline is to escape her fate, she will need to risk her family, her gentility and her reputation. Her fiancé is not a man to be crossed, and for Stephen, the stakes will be even higher…
What am I looking for in a beta?
I’m looking for someone to read the whole novel and give me big-picture feedback/advice on pacing, characterisation, setting, emotional depth, and whether the romantic arc and tension works - the flow of the conflict is a little different to the typical romance. I am not expecting detailed line edits, but marking up any prose that doesn't work for you would be great too (and any close editing you want to give will be gratefully received). The novel has been through two complete drafts and should be fairly well proof-read and grammar-checked already.
Constructive negative feedback doesn't trouble me. If my book really sucks, I'd quite like to know why.
I am not looking specifically for a critique partner or a direct swap, but I am about to post my interests in the Willing Betas thread and so I may be willing to reciprocate.
Title: The Hysterical Bride
Manuscript Genre: Erotic historical M/F romance
Manuscript Word Count: 67,500 words
Warnings: Doctor-patient relationship. Explicit M/F sex (mostly vanilla, some very mild S-M play). Infrequent (very) bad language.
Blurb:
Dr Stephen Todd is proud of the career as a physician he has built from nothing in 1760s London. New patient Caroline Grant isn't hysterical, just unlucky in love, but Stephen knows the usual treatment—massaging her to 'relief'—will prepare her as well as he can for an unsatisfactory marriage.
Caroline is resigned to the choice between marrying her awful fiancé and staying a childless bluestocking spinster for life. Meeting Dr Todd opens up some disturbing and thrilling new possibilities: what might life be like with a man who listens with respect and sets her whole being on fire with a simple touch?
Stephen finds himself torn: Caroline is in desperate need of a white knight, but he has sworn never to violate his Hippocratic oath. If Caroline is to escape her fate, she will need to risk her family, her gentility and her reputation. Her fiancé is not a man to be crossed, and for Stephen, the stakes will be even higher…
What am I looking for in a beta?
I’m looking for someone to read the whole novel and give me big-picture feedback/advice on pacing, characterisation, setting, emotional depth, and whether the romantic arc and tension works - the flow of the conflict is a little different to the typical romance. I am not expecting detailed line edits, but marking up any prose that doesn't work for you would be great too (and any close editing you want to give will be gratefully received). The novel has been through two complete drafts and should be fairly well proof-read and grammar-checked already.
Constructive negative feedback doesn't trouble me. If my book really sucks, I'd quite like to know why.
I am not looking specifically for a critique partner or a direct swap, but I am about to post my interests in the Willing Betas thread and so I may be willing to reciprocate.
