NOTE: Due to our normal venue not being available in April, this meeting will be Zoom only.  Use the Zoom Link below to register.

Beta readers—readers who offer their feedback for free—often provide disparate advice. How do you manage the differing opinions? How can you minimize the problems and maximize the benefits? What does a paid manuscript assessment provide and how can you use it to augment the beta reading experience? This session answers these questions and more. Attendees will walk away with confidence in their ability to sort the good advice from the bad to craft a stronger, cleaner manuscript.

About our speaker:

Katherine Pickett is the owner of POP Editorial Services, LLC (www.popediting.net), where she provides copyediting, proofreading, and developmental editing to authors and publishers across the country. She is the author of the award-winning book Perfect Bound: How to Navigate the Book Publishing Process Like a Pro, the booklet Freelancing as a Business: 7 Steps to Take Before Launch Day, and several ebooks. Her personal essay “Dented” was published by Lowestoft Chronicle and selected for the 2011 Lowestoft Chronicle print anthology. Other creative work can be found in Voice of Eve, Grande Dame Literary, and Defunct Magazine, and she recently published her first children’s book, Mystery at Creek Academy: Where Is Mrs. Quimby?, coauthored with her 8-year-old daughter. Her articles have appeared on Publishing Perspectives, JaneFriedman.com, Writer Beware, IBPA Independent, and elsewhere in print and around the web. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with her handsome and strong husband, Chris, and their two awe-inspiring daughters.

Howard County Chapter Meeting Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMocuGoqTosHNXceAT4FdZUxSaL_nvPG5Y-

For more information visit the MWA Howard County Chapter Page or email: [email protected]