How to Find Beta Readers for Your Novel

So, you’ve put the finishing touches on the latest draft of your novel. It’s already had the stamp of approval from your partner/mom/best friend/family pet, but you’re wondering how to get more objective feedback to ensure it’s the best it can possibly be before embarking on your journey towards publication. Enter beta readers!

Beta readers shouldn’t be friends and family, as normally this feedback will be filtered and probably a little biased. Nor should they be other writers in a critique group, as they may not be readers of your particular genre, and their feedback is likely to come from a fellow writer’s perspective, which is not what you’re looking for here. These two sources of feedback should definitely have their place in your writing process, but beta readers offer something different and specific: the chance to get feedback from real, genuine readers of your book’s genre – your natural target audience.

The problem is finding these readers and persuading them to read your book, especially if you haven’t got a large existing audience. You could search on social media – Facebook groups and the like – but then you have to worry about trust and reliability. If you share your story with people you don’t know, will they actually read it and get back to you within a reasonable timeframe, or will you never hear from them again? Or will you be worried that they might share your story without permission once they have it? These are common problems facing writers hoping to get feedback from real readers, and they’re enough to put many off from even trying, to the detriment of their stories.

The Niche Reader has a solution to this. We run a beta reader service for writers like you who are looking for feedback from real readers in your target audience. We’ve spent years bringing together a large group of trustworthy, reliable readers who love nothing more than to provide our clients with useful, objective feedback on their stories. We have a list of 15,000 readers to select from, and we tailor each group of readers to the specific genre and subgenre of your novel to get the right match.

We ensure reliability and trust by barring readers who don’t consistently, and promptly, provide quality feedback, and we protect your book from piracy by adding unique visible and invisible digital watermarks, enabling us to trace every copy back to the reader who downloaded it. This means you’ll get quality feedback with peace of mind.

Learn more about our service on our website here.

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