Pre-Release and Proofread … Reading
A few months ago, I was contacted (through Goodreads) by Christopher Mahoney, inviting me to read a pre-release version of his then-upcoming book “Incredible Origins of the Onyx Sun”, considered to be Young Adult SciFi (see my review). So I read it, reviewed it, and overall enjoyed the experience.
Now, if you know me at all, you know I love reading. Especially SciFi and Fantasy books. And I actually sent out info to a few publishers (like Tor and Ace), offering to help proofread or review early versions of upcoming books… but I never heard anything.
So I created a group on Goodreads called “Pre-release Reader Volunteer Group”. Not the sexiest name around, but it gets the point across. The basic idea is to allow authors (or wannabe-authors) an easy method to get their books looked at and reviewed, free of hassle, free of charge. And the upside is that the people reading them get to be part of an “exclusive group” of people who had a “first look” at these books.
We’ll see how it goes, and if it ends up working well, I may extend this into the non-Goodreads world, and create an online community to facilitate this… but I wanted to start small first.
Happy Reading!
