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Beta Reading by Self Published Auth

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5 per unit - Virtual OK - Posted Feb 22, 2017

Read your PDF or other format and provide you with useful feedback on things like character depth, story flow, chapter structure and completion, readability and excitability. I have been writing all my life. I have a problem expressing myself verbally sometimes, but when I write I can really inspire people through their imagination. I will give you the gift of my criticism and inspiration.

I can read your book and take notes of things I think you should change or fix or what I didn't understand as well as a general feel for the entire book. How well does it stick together. What is the plot in the beginning of the book.

However you want to do this, I can do a chapter by chapter analysis and the entire book. Does it end too quickly, I can even point out obvious errors. How well does it end? How does it sit with the reader at the end?

I can provide videochat or written updates.

Training & Qualifications


I am a published author, I've published short stories and a novel. I have written scientific and medical articles, academic essays I have written entertainment articles, movie reviews and even connoisseur reports for cannabis. I have always had a knack for writing and I have underwritten and ghostwritten for people you've probably heard of. I've written other peoples speeches and when I read a speech I have written in political circles, you'd almost think I was a leader.

Availability & Preferences


I am free for scheduling, most of the time between m-f 9-5.

Trading Preference: I’m flexible, just hit me up!

Reviews of Toby


Apr 08, 2022
Thanks Toby.
Paul provided session of Chakra Reading & Balancing for Toby
Mar 18, 2022
Toby was gracious and kind as we spent some time together exploring his life path—past, present & future. I was happy to offer some insights that can... help him navigate his future options. He has my admiration for perseverance and his positive attitudeshow more
Julia provided package of Be a Patron to Traveling Shamans for Toby
Mar 15, 2022
Toby was easy to work with and interesting to talk to.
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Jun 09, 2017
Honestly the one and only deal I've ever had a problem with. He wrote, what in my opinion is a very immature and one sided review on me. All the issue...s he mentioned we discussed and agreed was solvable. For those who have seen the review and my job posting, never once have I claimed to be a professional. I'm just a teenage girl who can do silly voices that I thought someone could use. Sadly here this was not the case. I tried, I did not avoid you I simply did not see the message. Perhaps if you had simply sent me another instead of assuming we could have worked it out, anyhow we didn't so I wish you luck in finding someone else to read your smut and hopefully you won't have issues with them.show more
Misti provided Help with Format my Book for Print publishing for Toby
May 11, 2017
Pleasant to work with. Does his best to communicate well and be fair to the other party.
Anzi provided unit of Cosplay and Fabric Help for Toby
May 01, 2017
Toby is very understanding and very good to work with.
Aubrey provided unit of Back Cover Copy Critique for Toby
Apr 27, 2017
Thank you so much for the kind words!
Apr 22, 2017
Thanks Toby, very helpful and accommodating the whole way through ..
Apr 19, 2017
<3 Super interesting and pretty great ideas!! Keep writing!
Apr 03, 2017
Toby is patient and very skilled. It was great exchanging with him!


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About Toby Nixon

I have a wide variety of Skills and Experiences. From the Spiritual and Parapsychological, Degrees in Science and Technology with an Award Scholarship from the National Science Foundation for excellen...ce in Science and Mathematics, Martial Arts, Hunting and Wilderness/Jungle Survival as well as writing. My father was an Army Special Forces Green Beret for 27 years of his military career. He also trained all Domestic Security over the fifth federal district of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. I Boxed and Wrestled in High School, fought bare fisted in Baton Rouge and have a Justified Homicide number that makes a serial killer's skin crawl. I am sort of an extremely high functioning Autistic, with brain damage before birth, damaging the soft tissue around my left and right temporal and parietal lobes on both sides due to lack of oxygen. I am extremely interested in Magick and Energy, Remote Viewing, Science and Forbidden Archeology. I write, science fiction and horror, but I am able to write things that will make you feel good. I am working on a story about a Child, that will be geared more toward a younger audience; kind of Alice in Wonderland. At nearly 40 and disabled but not totally helpless, I am at a loss for full time work. I have Disabling Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Fibromyalgia. Sixteen pounds of metal reforming my Tibia and knee, rejoining my crucial tendons so I can walk. Astonishingly enough, I can walk without a visible limp. I am a well traveled person, I consider politeness and professionalism to be of the highest priories. I may not be the best dressed person, but I am certainly methodical. I am fairly charitable spending much of my time, pursuing activism, protection of privacy and advocacy of the Homeless. Which is truly a wide variety of skills. Please contact me for any consulting project that may seem in line with my skills.show more

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