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Step 1: Your Manuscript is matched with three Spun Yarn beta readers
The Spun Yarn has built a diverse network of thorough, thoughtful and experienced beta readers and sensitivity readers from around the country. We’ll match your manuscript with three of these beta readers or sensitivity readers based upon their reading profile and the type of feedback that you're looking for as the author.
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Step 2: Beta readers provide their feedback
Beta readers matched to your manuscript read your entire book, then provide a mixture of quantitative and qualitative feedback using the Spun Yarn feedback approach. Spun Yarn beta readers and sensitivity readers aren’t developmental editors or publishers or literary agents. Instead, they’re book nerds, selected for their unique perspectives and with rich experience using the Spun Yarn feedback approach.
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Step 3: Spun Yarn Feedback Report delivered to you
Our Spun Yarn team compiles beta reader feedback into a summarized report which is delivered back to you within 30 days. By synthesizing feedback data across multiple beta readers, we’re able to identify areas for improvement that you otherwise might have missed. Best of all, your Spun Yarn feedback is as private and painless as you want it to be. The entire process is anonymous andwhat you choose to do with your feedback is up to you.
Curious to know what type of feedback you will get from the Spun Yarn? We've broken down the key aspects of a Spun Yarn Manuscript Report below.
The cover of a standard Spun Yarn report.
Each in-depth Manuscript Feedback Report is over 30 pages in length.
Each manuscript is matched with three readers based upon the type of feedback that an author is seeking.
At the quarter, halfway, three-quarters, and ending point in the book, Spun Yarn Readers provide input on the reading experience. Flash Feedback provides excellent insight into what readers are thinking in real time as they read a manuscript.
In this second section of the feedback report, Spun Yarn readers provide feedback on what they thought were the best aspects of a book, along with their opinion on the focus areas most in need of improvement. Authors also have the opportunity to pose a few questions directly to Spun Yarn readers at the outset of the feedback process, which are answered in this section of the Manuscript Report.
In this third section of the report, readers provide a numerical score on your manuscript on a scale of 1 -10 in eight key categories. By focusing on trends, correlations, and deviations in this quantitative data, the Spun Yarn is able to provide clear insight into the strengths and improvement areas in a manuscript.
