Profile Updated: April 2, 2011.Asking me to be your Editor/Beta/Whatever-You-Call-It-Now means all of the following:
I will not coddle you.
I will not bend over backwards to make you like me.
I will not praise your story and tell you how much people will love it.
I will not tolerate whining and complaining.
I will not hesitate to tell you why your story sucks.
I will not read your draft if it looks like you didn't edit it yourself first.
And above all, I will not accept anything less than formality and respect from you.
I WILL read your story unbiased.
I WILL tell you what, if anything, is good about it.
I WILL offer suggestions to make it possibly better.
I WILL help you beat your story with a stick and iron out the discrepancies.
I am a very nice person, but I am not a very nice editor.