Looking for beta readers for my literary nonfiction manuscript — an annotated archive of emailed travelogs from a mid-1990s journey through Southeast Asia and surrounding areas.
It's literary nonfiction with an unconventional structure: the period emails preserved largely as written, framed by present-day retrospective sections rather than rewritten into a continuous narrative. I'm looking for a reader comfortable with nonfiction and willing to sit with an archive-based form.
Title: Gently Lost: E-Logs from My Meandering Quest for a Place of Kindness. ~80k words.
Read it as you would anything you picked up yourself. Don't push through out of politeness — the moment your attention drifts or you'd have set it down, mark the spot. If you stop, tell me where.
It's literary nonfiction with an unconventional structure: the period emails preserved largely as written, framed by present-day retrospective sections rather than rewritten into a continuous narrative. I'm looking for a reader comfortable with nonfiction and willing to sit with an archive-based form.
Title: Gently Lost: E-Logs from My Meandering Quest for a Place of Kindness. ~80k words.
Read it as you would anything you picked up yourself. Don't push through out of politeness — the moment your attention drifts or you'd have set it down, mark the spot. If you stop, tell me where.
***Happy to beta something of yours in return.***