Do you need the opinion of someone who isn’t your mom? (We love you, Mom.) We’ve got you covered. Choose from our wide range of readers and get a feel for how audiences will like your book!
This is a great edit to purchase for testing out your market. Did you hit the expected tropes? Are your characters reading right? Just ask our beta readers.
Beta reader edits include a full page of reader responses and thoughts. In-line edits can be purchased as an add-on.
Meet our Beta Readers
Rachel Hansen
Rachel likes sweet regency romances, YA fantasy, YA fiction, dystopian, non-gruesome mystery, and middle grade of all genres.
Candice Roma
Candice has dedicated her life to words. Initially she had dreams of going to medical school, but when she was faced with the choice of Inorganic Chemistry or taking a Creative Writing class, she ran screaming from the science lab and into the amazing world of creative fiction.
Trisha Tobias
Trisha Tobias is Associate Fiction Editor for FORESHADOW: A Serial YA Anthology, a freelance editor, and a 2018 Walter Dean Myers Grant recipient.
Tova Seltzer
Tova Seltzer is a fiction writer, poet, and editor with a B.A. in creative writing from American University in Washington, D.C. The great love of her life is working with stories in development and figuring out what they want and need to be the greatest they can be. You can be confident she’ll take your fictional character children as seriously as you do!
Kim VanderHorst
Kim is an experienced and kind developmental editor. Maybe because she’s a mom. Maybe because she’s Canadian. But she has a knack
Kimberlee McCoy
Kimberlee enjoys historical fiction, YA fiction, middle grade fiction, personal development and self-help, cookbooks, and memoirs.
Sara Olds
Writer, mother—grandmother now too!, teacher, traveler and equestrian—Sara believes in making the most of the great loves in her life.
Jeigh Meredith
Jeigh likes all different genres of middle grade and young adult.
Carrie Jacks
Carrie loves the entire process of publishing a novel—from developing that brand new, exciting idea to formatting the words to look perfect on the page.She is sometimes intimidated by editing her own words, but she loves to read other writers’ works in progress to help make them the best they can be.
David Pena
Born and raised in Madrid, Spain, David is an editor and writer with a background in Psychology who loves books as much as he loves people. You can find him behind his laptop and second coffee or walking around his hometown buying more and more books, always ready to listen and trade stories.
Lee Anne Cooksey
Lee Anne Cooksey has worked for a local government agency for 30 years. She currently supervises four (4) team members who are responsible for procuring
Heidi Robbins
Heidi Robbins has a degree in Theater and Speech Education with a minor in English and is currently working on her Master’s in Teaching
Heba Elsherief
Heba Elsherief holds an MA in English Literature from and is a PhD researcher at the University of Toronto. A former Islamic high school English teacher, she now teaches college classes in children’s literature, gender studies, and historical thought.
Cameron Van Sant
Cameron Van Sant is an editor who wants to see every writer succeed. He has experience editing creative works, professional reports, and academic writing.
Akelah Adams
Akelah has an English degree and she would love to put it to use helping you write your story!
Sarah McPherson
Sarah loves sweet historical romances, nonfiction adventure, and sports books (specifically soccer).
Erin Olds
Erin’s officially been writing for over half of her life, and has the stacks of scribbled-in notebooks to prove it! She can help you with anything from story structure to emotional payoffs.
Alynne Scirkovich
Alynne loves sci-fi, historical, biographical, religious, and self help/business books.
Rebecca Blevins
Rebecca Blevins is the author of four published books. She has been freelance editing for several years and enjoys helping
Ronkwahrhakónha (Lune)
Lune’s professional résumé includes everything from neopagan witchcraft and wilderness survival; to trauma-informed care and mental health issues; to archery, atlatl, and sword-fighting, so naturally