Welcome Fantasy Authors

My name is Kylie and I've been writing fantasy fiction for four years. What a good beta reader requires is a critical mind, an eye for detail and logical consistencies. I have these in spades. In addition, when it comes to novels, I believe characters drive plot. Certainly a good plot helps drive your novel, but with most novels, it's the characters that decide where the story will lead. With my background in psychology and a very high emotional quotient, I understand human motivations well.

I also have a keen interest in philosophy. I understand deductive and inductive reasoning. I'm an empirical and creative thinker that will analyse your book for both rationale, symbolism and of course, entertainment. Entertainment is why I read and it's why I write. I do not beta read for grammar, although I might comment on it if I think it's necessary.

I'm a perfectionist at heart and, due to my own standards, will give every novel I scrutinise a high degree of attention and time. A beta reader is the most important step to ensuring your novel keeps your readership engaged. With the growing rate of indie authors on Amazon and other publishing venues, we've all seen first hand that it's not just correct grammar and sentence structure that impresses readers, but the expression of imagination and greatness of story-telling. This is why you should invest in a decent beta reader before your story even makes it to the hands of an editor.

I've chosen to only read fantasy fiction because this is a genre I am most passionate about, and it's also the one I'm mostly widely read in (both indie and traditionally published authors).

Keeping to time frames is important to me, because of this I am selective with which manuscripts I read. A heavily unstructured and extremely poorly written manuscript won't be benefited by a beta read and because of my high standards I wouldn't even attempt to give feedback on it. I do, however, believe that a fantasy writer who has taken pains to write an entire manuscript (and what an amazing feat that is), and seeks out guidance on their story, is to be greatly respected for their accomplishment. I will be hard pressed to turn down any writer who places their work in my hands.

Reading about other worlds, fantastical beasts, utopian and dystopian societies, magical systems and the people who reside in such vastly differing existences, is a great passion of mine and I can't wait to share it with you.

I look forward to hearing from you.