BWC’s Beta Readers & Advanced Copy Readers program was created to bring together readers who read Black Writers Collective members’ books as beta readers.
Beta readers are those who read your book AS READERS–not as writers or editors or people who love you and can’t bring themselves to say anything negative about your work–but as engaged readers who can give honest feedback on what did and did not work for them in your book. They comment on things like detail inconsistencies, where their attention wavers, what they think of the characters, and confusing sentences, subplot and twists. They address weak spots in your manuscript before you share it with the world.