Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Looking for 65 people to read a chapter of my book to

/////// Edit:- I'm reposting this blog because it occurred to me that people might be wondering how long a section of my book I would be reading to them just so you don't have to worry about dying of boredom. I have now split my book into 65 chapters and seeing as the book is about 100k words that makes each chapter on average about 1500 words which is not too long. ///////

I am in the late stages of editing my book and I've got some feedback from a few people. Dave Cornthwaite gave some of it a read and suggested that I read it out to an objective listener to see how it flows.

I think it would be an awesome experience to be able to read it out in this way and it got me thinking. I don't think I could find someone who has the time to have the whole book read to them and I think that it would be fun to split it into sections and interesting to get different peoples' opinions.

So I am looking for 65  people who are willing to listen to me read about 1000 words of my book over a coffee, ale, dinner, bike ride, walk, swim  etc. The only catch is that I must get constructive criticism and hopefully it will  give my book project the last boost it needs to get it up to scratch and I can get it out to publishers.

I am currently back in Leicestershire for Christmas but I now live in London. Please drop me an email on andy@ride-earth.org.uk.

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