☆ Are you looking for a beta reader, but not sure where to start?

☆ Are you in need of help getting your story polished and ready to go to your editor?

☆ Do you wish you had some help on your troublesome chapters?

Our team of professional beta readers provide valuable feedback to take your story to the next level. We have beta readers for Fantasy, YA, and all subgenres of romance.

We’re excited to announce our expanded Beta Reading packages! Scroll down to learn more

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Click here to see the latest Beta Reading and Quote & Teaser Service Schedule Availability

I used the quote service from the Beta Buddy, and it was awesome!

First, I’m not a good judge of what resonates with readers. And second, this saved me so much time. She also pulled enough quotes for me to do promo on the book for a long time. Okay, forever! Each quote was varied, both in length and content, which I so appreciated! I immediately booked the service for the next two books in the series and will continue to use in the future. Highly recommend. Like so high, what is stopping you from booking now? You won’t regret it.
Melissa McClone
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The Author Buddy is amazing!

I highly recommend all of their services, but especially their beta and teaser service. It is a fantastic resource for writers. They are absolutely wonderful to work with — supportive, fast, and so knowledgeable. They will help you make your book shine!
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I recently had the pleasure of working with The Author Buddy and I could not be happier.

Perrin was akin to a Godsend. She is everything I’ve ever wanted in a beta reader and more. I am not sure I want to release a book without her at this point. She is THAT good.

I told (Rachel Christley) my concerns and she hand-picked the beta that would be the best fit for me. It’s this kind of customer service that makes The Author Buddy a company I will continue working with again and again.
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The beta reading feedback provided by Perrin blew my mind.

She was so incredibly thorough and detail-oriented, and I really felt like she wanted my story to be the best version possible. Not only did she provide helpful suggestions for improvements, but she also noted things that were already working (yay!). I can’t recommend Perrin enough if you’re looking for an expert beta reader with a caring touch! Thank you, Perrin!
Michelle Cornish
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Rachel’s new quote finding service for promotional materials is wonderful!

After I’ve written and edited my books, the words all start to bleed together, so it’s really nice to have someone outside my brain highlight the quotes that stand out! She’s a genius, and I <3 her!
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Quick Pass Beta Reading

Our Quick Pass service provides reaction feedback at the chapter level within the manuscript. This is great for between draft stages, or when you want quick reader feedback before publishing. Includes chapter-level in-line reaction feedback of:

  • Pacing & Flow
  • Reader Experience & Genre Standards
  • Plot Holes
  • Character Likability
  • For Romance: Efficacy of Romantic Chemistry, Tropes, and Steam Level

Turnaround time for a Quick Pass is 20k/day and can be booked in sooner often without a rush fee.

$1.50

per 1,000 manuscript words

Professional Beta Reading

Our experienced team of professional beta readers provide valuable reaction feedback to take your story to the next level, including analysis of:

  • Reader Experience & Genre Standards
  • Plot Holes & Timeline Consistency
  • Character Motivation & Likability
  • Conflict Development and Resolution
  • If Applicable for genre: World-building, Lore, Setting & Situational Realism, Regional Language, Character Relationships
  • For Romance: Efficacy of Romantic Chemistry and Tension, Tropes, Choreography, and Steam Level

$2.00

per 1,000 manuscript words

Premium Beta Reading

Our Premium Beta Reading Service is perfect for the author seeking an affordable, but more in-depth, evaluation of their manuscript. Our Premium Beta Reading Service includes valuable reaction feedback and analysis of, as well as solutions and suggestions for:

  • Story Structure
  • Continuity, Pacing & Flow
  • Light Stylistic Editing (overused words and phrases, word choice, tone)
  • Light Line Editing (sentence structure, grammar, spelling, punctuation)
  • Reader Experience & Genre Standards
  • Plot Holes & Timeline Consistency
  • Character Motivation & Likability
  • Conflict Development and Resolution
  • If Applicable for genre: World-building, Lore, Setting & Situational Realism, Regional Language, Character Relationships
  • For Romance: Efficacy of Romantic Chemistry and Tension, Tropes, Choreography, and Steam Level

$2.50

per 1,000 manuscript words

Platinum Beta Reading

For authors needing an extensive evaluation of their manuscript, we now offer Platinum Reads tailored to fit your draft stage:

  • Developmental Reads for early draft stages
    • Our Developmental Platinum Beta Package offers all of the feedback of our Premium Beta Reading service with a focus on the development of your story, characters, plot, and more.
    • This service includes quotes & teasers and a video call with your reader!
  • Line Edits for final draft stages
    • The perfect final pass to help you polish your story, our Line Edit Platinum Beta Read provides extensive and highly detailed line-by-line feedback on all elements of your story, including proofreading and an eye for mechanical issues. Available as a Standalone Service or Add-On

Starting at:

$4.00

per 1,000 manuscript words

Both our Professional and Premium Level Beta Reading Services include in-line comments and feedback within the text itself, as well as a single-page Feedback Document detailing overall impressions and evaluation of your manuscript based on genre trends, tropes, and reader experience. 

Add On Services

Book All Your Services At Once for Special Discounts! Add-On services are available in the Beta Booking Form

  • Quotes & Teaser Service [SAVE 40%!]
    Our authors love this service where we pull the most eye-catching teasers from your book for use in promotional materials. Add-on Price: $0.75/1,000 manuscript words
  • Team Beta Reading Service [SAVE up to 33%!]
    Want more eyes on your manuscript? Add an additional Professional Beta Reader at a discount!
  • Book a Video Follow Up With Rachel [SAVE over 35%!]
    In this 30 minute Live Buddy Session, Rachel helps you work through any pesky plot holes or story struggles, offering a fresh perspective and brainstorm new outcomes together. Add-on Price: $25/30 minute session
Proofreading

Our Proofreading Service includes a thorough analysis of your manuscript for typos, missing words, and grammar and punctuation mistakes. While our Beta Readers occasionally make note of typos and other proofreading concerns as they see them, our Beta Reading packages do not include comprehensive proofreading by default.

starting at:

$1.50

per 1,000 manuscript words

Line Editing

For authors in need of an affordable story analysis beyond Beta Reading, we now offer Line Editing, where we provide extensive in-line feedback to help your story shine its brightest. This service includes:

  • Stylistic Editing
  • Comprehensive analysis of overused words and phrases
  • Word choice
  • Tone
  • Sentence structure
  • Story flow

Turnaround time for Line-Editing requires at least 2 business days per 10k manuscript words. *LIMITED AVAILABILITY – Cannot be added to projects with a deadline within 6 weeks.*

starting at:

$3.50

per 1,000 manuscript words

Please fill out the form below to BOOK your Beta project

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Author & Book Information

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If your genre is not listed here, please message Rachel through our Facebook or email her at christleycreatives@gmail.com
Please note: This does not apply to bar fights, suspenseful moments, car chases, or even consensual BDSM. This is intended for content such as: Bully Romance; intense/graphic descriptions of violence, abuse, blood, and gore; vivid panic attacks or descriptions of mental anguish; sexual or physical assault or abuse, or sexual or physical harm, either in action or in fantasy/inner thoughts; any other content that could be found disturbing to an average reader. If yes, please elaborate in the next text box. This helps us protect our betas and ensure your manuscript is assigned to the reader who will best represent your target audience.
***IMPORTANT *** This helps us protect our betas and ensure your manuscript is assigned to the reader who will best represent your target audience. Please list any triggering subject matter in your book including: Bully Romance; intense/graphic descriptions of violence, abuse, blood, and gore; vivid panic attacks or descriptions of mental anguish; sexual or physical assault or abuse, or sexual or physical harm, either in action or in fantasy/inner thoughts; mental illness, incest, sexual assault, death/loss/grief (especially child loss); any other content that could be found disturbing or triggering to an average reader.
Is this book a part of a series?
Draft Stage

Deadline

Hard Deadline - Please see notes below this field
Please indicate here if your project has a hard deadline and we will do our best to accommodate you. If you have a hard deadline, please be advised that our beta readers work in US Eastern time (GMT-5) and will deliver projects by the end of day. With that in mind, please adjust the date services need to be completed in the field above to accommodate for time zone differences.
Rush Fee - Please see notes below this field
There will be a fee added to projects that need to be completed within 6 weeks. We require one business day per 10k manuscript words for completion of Beta Reading Projects unless otherwise noted. A rush fee will be applied if you need a faster turnaround time than our 10k/day policy.
When will your manuscript be ready for scheduling?
Manuscript must be delivered within 24 hours of the project start date that is indicated and approved at the time of scheduling and deposit. We use manuscript completion dates for scheduling purposes so that we can ensure a reader is available for your project and deadline.
The date the author has or will have the manuscript ready for the beta read

Beta Reading

☆ Please select your Beta Reading Package ☆
For clarity, since our Beta Reading packages have recently changed, authors who have worked with Rachel previously were receiving the services included in the Premium Beta Reading Package.
Do you have a Beta Reader preference?
Beta Reader scheduling is dependent upon availability, but we will try to accommodate requests if possible.
☆ Quick Pass Options ☆ DO NOT select an option in this field unless you selected "Quick Pass" in the field above.
Letting us know what stage of the writing process you are in helps us curate the most helpful feedback

Discounted Add-On Services

ADD-ON SERVICES - Book All Your Services At Once for Special Discounts!

Platinum Developmental Reading with Rachel

We’re thrilled to now offer Platinum Developmental Reading for our authors who need an extensive evaluation of their story in its earlier writing stage. This service includes:
All Premium Beta Reading Analysis, PLUS:

  • Stylistic Editing
  • Comprehensive analysis of overused words and phrases
  • Word choice
  • Tone
  • Sentence structure
  • Story flow
  • A thirty (30) minute video consultation
  • Quote & Teaser Service Add-On FREE

Our Platinum Developmental service is most effective early in your writing process, as it includes story and conceptual editing.

PLEASE NOTE: Platinum Developmental Reading with Rachel includes everything you get in the Premium Beta Read, so you do not need to signup for a Premium Beta Read AND a Developmental Read UNLESS you want two reading sessions with two separate readers.
Turnaround time for Developmental Reading requires at least 2 business days per 10k manuscript words (5k/day). *LIMITED AVAILABILITY – Cannot be added to projects with a deadline within 6 weeks.*

Platinum Developmental Reading Service with Rachel - *LIMITED AVAILABILITY - Cannot be added to projects with a deadline within 6 weeks.*

Line editing

For authors in need of an affordable, but more thorough, story analysis than Beta Reading, we now offer Line Editing, where we provide extensive in-line feedback to help your story shine its brightest. This service includes Stylist Editing, comprehensive analysis of overused words and phrases, word choice, tone, sentence structure, and story flow. Turnaround time for Line-Editing requires at least 2 business days per 10k manuscript words. *LIMITED AVAILABILITY - Cannot be added to projects with a deadline within 6 weeks.*

Line Editing options available:

  • As an add-on with your Beta Project, at a discounted rate of $3.50/1,000 manuscript words
  • As a standalone service at the standard rate of $5/1,000 manuscript words
Line Editing Service - *LIMITED AVAILABILITY - Cannot be added to projects with a deadline within 6 weeks.*
Please note: Two weeks' notice is required for scheduling if the second session Line Editing option is chosen

Proofreading

Our Proofreading Service includes a thorough analysis of your manuscript for typos, missing words, and grammar and punctuation mistakes. While our Beta Readers occasionally make note of typos and other proofreading concerns as they see them, our Beta Reading packages do not include comprehensive proofreading by default.

Proofreading options available:

  • As an add-on with your Beta Project, at a discounted rate of $1.50/1,000 manuscript words
  • As a standalone service at the standard rate of $2/1,000 manuscript words
Proofreading Service
Please note: Two weeks' notice is required for scheduling if the second session Proofreading option is chosen

Communication

The questions in this section are optional, but they help us assign you to a reader whose communication style aligns more closely with yours, and plan your project to best fit your needs.

Communication Style - please select all that apply

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Please review our Beta Project Policies

Turnaround time varies by service. We work in US Eastern time (GMT-5) and will deliver beta reading projects by end of day (please take this into account with your deadline).

Rush fees will apply if turnaround timeframe for that service cannot be accommodated by the author.

For the most effective and efficient beta read, we ask that the author not access the document during the beta read to make any revisions or resolve comments by the beta reader(s) until the full read is complete. We may make a copy of the document in Google Drive for this purpose, but it will be delivered back to the author upon project completion with all notes.

You will receive TWO invoices for this project. The first invoice will have the anticipated dates of service, book delivery information, and non-refundable and non-transferrable 50% deposit (cost of half the anticipated word count PLUS any add-ons). The dates on the invoice are subject to change, since the project won't be reserved on our calendar until payment of the deposit invoice is received. The second invoice will be sent at project completion for the remainder of the word count.

By signing up for The Author Buddy services, you signify that generative AI was not used in the work you are submitting for beta reading/editing.

If you have any questions, please email us at hello@theauthorbuddy.com

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