by Jonas Frid | Nov 1, 2020 | advice, beta readers, blog, nanowrimo
It’s that month of the year again. To “normal people”, it’s just November. But to anyone with a writing dream, it’s National Novel Writing Month. Hundreds of thousands of writers around the world spur each other to finish a novel draft in 30 days. Is that actually...
by Jonas Frid | May 11, 2020 | advice, authors, beta readers, blog
Writing a novel is a marathon that you have to run over and over again. An endless array of drafts and rewrites. It can be exhausting even for the most persistent of us. The good news? You don’t have to run it alone. Or, you do have to do the running, but with a...
by Jonas Frid | Jan 22, 2020 | beta readers, blog, writing
How I beat procrastination and went from zero words to a chance at $10,000 in six months I am a writer. As such, I am a master procrastinator. Instead of going ahead with the querying or self-publishing of my second novel, I paused my writing to find a great way to...
by Jonas Frid | Apr 17, 2019 | beta readers, blog, film production, interviews
We started BetaReader.io because we needed a better way to test books, but what we built turned out to be very helpful for testing any kind of story. So it wasn’t all that surprising that New Forest Film Co, a film and TV series production company, decided to use the...
by Jonas Frid | Apr 12, 2019 | beta readers, blog, interviews, publishers
Ehrlin Publishing was one of our earliest beta testers, and also one of the first customers to sign up for a paid plan after we launched. Their history and success, with millions of copies sold to date, is tightly tied to beta reading, so we were naturally curious...
by Jonas Frid | Apr 12, 2019 | beta readers, beta reading, Release Notes
What started as a handy tool to manage one author’s beta reading process has grown to help a whole writing community. Today, we are proud to open up BetaReader.io to the public. It’s been half a year since we released BetaReader.io into open beta, and a little...
