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I just had someone ask me to beta their story. It turns out, the book has already been published.
I'd like to recommend that writers wait on publishing their books until *after* they have had the manuscript critiqued or beta'd.
Also, it is not going to help you to learn what mistakes (if any) you are making in your work if you just turn your book over to someone else and ask them to fix it. The best way to learn how to edit is to take the comments and corrections that your beta/crit partner/editor recommends in the first chapter and use them to fix the errors in the rest of the book.
I'd like to recommend that writers wait on publishing their books until *after* they have had the manuscript critiqued or beta'd.
Also, it is not going to help you to learn what mistakes (if any) you are making in your work if you just turn your book over to someone else and ask them to fix it. The best way to learn how to edit is to take the comments and corrections that your beta/crit partner/editor recommends in the first chapter and use them to fix the errors in the rest of the book.