Betas Needed!

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The due date to this year's Bottom Draco's Adapation Fest is quickly approaching! We've already received some fabulous submissions. However, some writers are in desperate need of betas.  If you are willing to proofread a story or two, please respond to this post and fill out the template below. All participants in need of betas will be directed to this post, so please make sure your contact information is correct.


Name:
Email:
Kinks/genres you consider your speciality:
Highest rating you're willing to beta:
Squicks/Limitations (things you WON'T beta-- character death, noncon, infidelity, mpreg, etc):
Pairings that you are willing to beta:
Any pairings that you won't beta:
Strengths/specialities (SPAG, canon, style, flow, plot, dialogue, character development, britpicking, etc.):
Average turn-around time:
Anything else:




REMINDER:  Submissions are due on February 15th and posting starts on March 1st!

Comments

[k8sfic.livejournal.com]

Name: k8sfic
Email: k8nkane@gmail.com
Kinks/genres you consider your speciality: I like the harder kinks (watersports, bestiality, non-/dub-con, incest, etc) and the darker, angsty stories. I'll read anything that isn't considered "fluff", though.
Highest rating you're willing to beta: NC-17.
Squicks/Limitations: None.
Pairings that you are willing to beta: I'm a fan of all things slash Draco; the slash pairings I'm willing to read are too many to list, lol.
Any pairings that you won't beta: I'm pickier with het, so please no het.
Strengths/specialities: I'm good with SPAG, dialogue, flow (as I really hate stilted writing), word choice, tightening up your writing (eliminating unnecessary words, etc), and character development (maintaining characters that are IC throughout your story). No Britpick, as I'm American.
Average turn-around time: 5k stories and less take ~2-3 days. 10k+ stories take a week.
Anything else: I prefer to use Google Docs, so I can leave comments and offer changes you can see and decide whether to implement. But, if you don't use Google Docs, don't worry about it; we'll figure something out. :-)

[9fn432.livejournal.com]

Name: 9fn432
Email: gamortie@gmail.com
Kinks/genres you consider your speciality: Fluff, humour, angst, mild kink
Highest rating you're willing to beta: NC-17
Squicks/Limitations: Knifeplay, bloodplay, chan, watersports
Pairings that you are willing to beta: Any slash Draco, Harry/Draco, Bill/Draco, Charlie/Draco and Neville/Draco would be my faves.
Any pairings that you won't beta: No het, no underage, no generation gaps
Strengths/specialities: SPAG, canon, flow, dialogue, continuity, making it clean (looking for superfluous/repetitive grammar/phrases), character consistency, Brit pick.
Average turn-around time: Up to 5K, 2-3 days, >5K up to a week (greater than 10K we can negotiate)
Anything else: Can use gdocs or skydrive or track changes in Word. Seeing as I wasn't aware of this fest in time, hopefully I can take part by helping someone out instead! Best of luck everyone!

[inkprince.livejournal.com]

Name: inkprince
Email: inkypost[at]gmail.com
Kinks/genres you consider your speciality: almost anything goes (but extra yay for mpreg, Alpha/Omega verse and fluffiness)
Highest rating you're willing to beta: NC17
Squicks/Limitations: just pegging and super-heavy bondage
Pairings that you are willing to beta: any pairing except the ones that are listed below
Any pairings that you won't beta: Hagrid/Draco, Dumbledore/Draco, female character/Draco (see pegging)
Strengths/specialities: So, English is my second language. But since you seem, and I quote, in desperate need of betas, I thought I'd let you guys know I'm available. Still, I'm not bad (I've got a pretty official-looking piece of paper to prove that my English is more than just good) and being a non-native speaker means I'm more sensible to sentence flow, unnecessarily complex writing, a bit of SPAG and so on. However, of course, if you find a English native speaker, disregard this! Call me Plan B :)
Average turn-around time: <5K stories, just three days or so, if more maybe a week (unless you're an aspiring novelist and you send me something bigger than 10K, then I'm gonna be needing a little more than a week)
Anything else: so far I've worked with google-docs and good old plain office word, but if you prefer any other way of sharing, I'm open to all options

[drarryisgreen]

Name: drarryisgreen
Email: drarryisgreen@gmail.com
Kinks/genres you consider your speciality: I don’t really have one.
Highest rating you're willing to beta: No limit
Squicks/Limitations (things you WON'T beta-- character death, noncon, infidelity, mpreg, etc): I prefer not to do any: noncon, mpreg, chan, scat, watersports, rape, underage, molestation, incest, I think you get the idea.
Pairings that you are willing to beta: I am up for almost anything (see below for limitation)
Any pairings that you won't beta: Hagrid/Draco, Dumbledore/Draco, female character/Draco, Lucius/Draco,
Strengths/specialities (SPAG, canon, style, flow, plot, dialogue, character development, britpicking, etc.): SPAG, flow, style, dialogue.
Average turn-around time: Weekends are tough but if you send me chapter by chapter then turnaround time is less than 2 days however, if it’s an emergency then I can work faster. It really depends on my schedule but I am great at communicating letting you know how fast I can write back.
Anything else: Just be as detailed as possible to what you’re looking for from your beta.