A chat with ...

... L. Lee Lowe — A Blogging Novelist.

Family and friends don’t make for the best critics! I don’t want a pat on the head, but an honest and brutal critique. The beta readers are more like qualified software ‘testers’ in that they are all professionals of one sort or another, and I’ve chosen them to help me most particularly with what I perceive as my weaknesses — plot, for example. One reader is a published children’s author, one a YA librarian with extensive awards committee experience, one a literature professor, and one a mathematician and software engineer. The latter is a real find, because someone needs to scrutinise the science in my science fiction. And I’ve got to know all of them online, and in fact have only met one of them, very briefly, in person.