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Beta Readers Wanted!

I am nearing the end of my edits, so I wanted to put out a survey to gauge interest for this story! I plan to send the draft to readers by the end of the month, so this is a preliminary way for me to get organized and figure out how I'm going to conduct this process. If you're interested in helping me improve this story, please fill out the survey in the post (and its linked here), and I'll reach out to you shortly about logistics! This is the first time I've ever requested beta readers, so bear with me while I iron out the bumps. All the relevant information is in the survey, but I'll copy the important parts here too:

Runaways is ~35-40K words long.

Middle Grade Novel/YA Novella

Genre: Faerie Portal Fantasy Adventure/Rescue Misson. WIP Page

Themes of betrayal, forgiveness, and sisterly love

TW for mentions of child abuse, on-page mind control, and rats. Targeted for ages 10-14 so it is not overly graphic.

Expected reading period: Two months between Oct. 31 and Dec. 31 to finish the book and leave feedback.

I'm looking for developmental edits on character arcs, plot holes, if the world building makes sense, general story structure, and pacing, not grammar and flow issues on a line-by-line level.

Thank you so much for your support! I couldn't have finished this story in the first place if it wasn't for this wonderful writeblr community. Even if you don't sign up to beta read, please consider giving this post a boost so it can reach the people who would like to read it <3

No post last week because I was celebrating Christmas with my family, and the December Newsletter will be coming out next week, as I catch up from the holidays. I just wanted to share some WIP progress updates and new directions before the year was out. It’s been... interesting for sure.

My apologies for posting this a bit late, as I had a math exam this morning, but I think it went well!

Today's post is on writing siblings! It walks through steps of developing a believable family dynamic by working through the backstory, and how those deeper elements of the relationships can effect the surface level banter and affection. All of my WIPs feature families and sibling relationships because I think it's a criminally underrated character interaction, so this is also a behind the curtain look into how so created the Laine kids and the Teagan sisters! Check it out :)