Hello all, I’m looking for Betas for my Crime/Thriller novel *Big Bad Wolf*. I can provide individual links for a copy of the story via Google Docs, but am happy to explore other file formats if it suits better.
Story Blurb
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Detective Winifred Reid is on the trail of a serial killer targeting teenagers in foster care and posing the deaths as suicides, but her supervisors are all too keen to keep the deaths off their books.
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Benjamin Wright, a private investigator hired by the families, struggles with similarities between the victims and his missing son.
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Finn Walsh has come home from a juvenile detention centre to his foster family, old friends, old problems, and a new danger.
Short Excerpt (Link)
Happy to provide via DM or Chat
Content Warnings
Big Bad Wolf contains descriptions and references to drug use, self-harm, SA, physical violence both active (Strangulation, Gunshot Wounds) and old (Dead bodies in varied states of decomp.). Strong themes of poor mental health, stalking, and mild horror. This violence is committed against and to adults and juveniles.
Type of Feedback I’m Seeking
I am happy with the work overall. I've been working on this for well over 2 years now and I fear I’m at the stage where I’ve looked at it too much.
In short, I’d like to know if it’s missing anything. I hope that’s not too wishy-washy. Key things like if primary and secondary characters feel under-explored, if some plots are explored too much, if there are any glaring pot holes that I’ve corrected in my head that haven’t reached the page - that sort of thing.
Preferred Timeline For Responses
I’m flexible but I’m hoping for a month turnaround.
Other Information
A little about me, 35 y/o he/they from Australia, not new to creative writing but this is the first novel I’ve written. Keen to explore both commercial crime/thriller books and also in the planning stages of a fantasy series. This book in particular is intended to introduce two recurring characters on different sides of investigation to explore in future books, some of which I’m already deep into the planning stages of.
I am happy to also Critique Swap, just let me know a timeframe you’d like the work back in and if you’re happy to negotiate we’ll see what we can work out!