Tips and Helpful Links
Read your own writing out loud to detect errors you would normally skim over if simply reading it in your head.
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If you are typing your work, downloading an e-reader or putting chunks of text using the copy function into, for example, google translate or Hemingway Editor, can help with processing your piece in a different format. The latter is also a useful editing tool, as the name foretells.
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This will direct you to a beta reader database that I myself am a beta reader on. You can email betas (some are free and some charge a fee) to look over your works, and you can also find book reviewers on this website.
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Unless you enter a contract with a beta reader, the beta is not OBLIGATED to continue reading your piece, or even to BEGIN reading it. Be polite and listen to what your betas have to say - keep tabs on what the majority of your betas critique, as this may mean you have to make some changes to your story (which is expected in this career path - your first couple drafts are not final drafts).
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If I feel I am being ignored or dismissed as a beta, I will stop reading for that particular author. Therefore, be RESPECTFUL, both as an author and as a beta. It is hard to put your "babies" out in the world to be examined. BEING A WRITER IS HARD.
