A number of friends, writing colleagues, and family members have inquired about my book's progress over time, so once I got the thumbs-up from my instructor, Nancy Butts, I asked for Beta readers from that interested pool. About a dozen brave souls volunteered and have taken the time to read the whole story. They found typos and extra spaces; they corrected punctuation. And to the man, they've enjoyed the story. Yay!
A few of their quotes (only the positive feedback here of course, wink):
~Your opening sentence grabbed me and got my interest.
~I was COMPLETELY wrapped up in it and was sorry to see it end. Sophie is such an engaging character and seems so real. I would like to meet her...
~I could easily see everything. I could smell the grass, the rain, the mud.
~The whole last part is so suspenseful I couldn't stop reading.
~I couldn't believe the visceral reaction I had when reading it all at once. It takes off like a runaway freight train.
~Are you planning a sequel?
And this from my daughter Katie: ~I got so wrapped up in the story, I forgot my mother wrote it.
Cool, huh?
I'll tweak my query letter and get that sent out. Meanwhile I'll fix all those mistakes on my ms so it's ready for the big league.
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