I’m still team building. It’s definitely not something that happens over night and it takes time to find people that can and will do good work. I’ve been lucky, in that’s have/had some decent people, but I’m still working on rounding out. You’re asking a lot of someone when you mostly write full length novels. It’s not child’s play.
Would it would Awesome tO write a story and not need anyone else? Hell yes. I’m not that good. Not even close. I NEED a team cleaning up behind me.
@kbois has been my ride or die for a while. I look at my earlier stuff and wish I had someone to read behind me. There are times I struggle to communicate what is in my head, having someone come through and say “hey, we’re you stroking out when you wrote this? Here, try it like this.”
BOOM.
I would like a solid team of three. I think that is my magic number. Since @kboisis kind of a catch all and does a half decent job with obvious edits and, flow, storyline stuff, I don’t feel like I need 2 betas, not that it would hurt.
@Mawgrim has been a great addition and I’d keep him around for as long as he’s feeling up to it. Cancer is kind of kicking his but right now, so there’s no pressure from me. Hopefully he’ll be willing to jump in and work his magic on the JL 6 chapter extension.😉😉😉
I would like one more beta and one critical editor. I found two people who are going to help during my next story. I’m curious to see how it will fan out.
It’s all about finding the right fits.
I do self publish my stuff, but only because I get a lot of requests from readers who want to have it paperback and such. They already know where my errors are 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️I’m not looking for fame or $$$. I’m not that kind of writer. I don’t have the balls to be critiqued by a publisher. I barely have the balls to be critiqued by every day Joe’s/Josephine’s. 😉