Do You Need Beta Readers?

Elise L. Blake
Writer’s Daily Digest
4 min readJun 29, 2022

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Plus questions you should be asking them.

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Whether you are planning to self-publish your novel or seek professional or more traditional publishing a beta reader should be an unskippable part of the process — but proceed with caution.

What Is A Beta Reader?

A beta reader is someone who reads your work, whether fiction or nonfiction in order to find issues…

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Elise L. Blake
Writer’s Daily Digest

Full-time writing coach and novelist. Elise is a recent college graduate where she earned her BA in Creative Writing.