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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 8h

I'm so glad that public domain exists, allowing my MC to openly read the book Dracula in his 'research attemps' for understanding more about the vampires he recently learned existed #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 23h

In which my MC gets hit with yet another riddle connoisseur regarding the scary woods at the edge of town, rather than giving him a straight answer regarding the case he's trying to solve 🙃 #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

The boss thought over his words as he sipped the dark, amber liquid which swirled in his glass. “And what of the woods?”
“I… I’m sorry?” the question threw him off guard.
“Do you know what they’re called?”
“Briar Woods?”
“That is the technical name, I suppose. Isaac, what do the locals call the Briar Woods?”
“The superstitious ones refer to it as the Devil’s Forest. They say at the darkest hour is when the demons and monstrous beasts lurk through the trees. Your Mrs. Wayle must not have been a superstitious woman. Those who step too close, or wander its depths alone, always run the risk of forever disappearing into the night’s star specked embrace.”
“Are you a superstitious man, Mr. Herron?” Felix asked.
He raised the glass to his lips and gave a knowing grin. “There’s a few creatures who haunt the nights which I believe in the existence of.”

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh yeah... I've been noticing that... But if I'm completely honest, I've never read any furry-related novels, and I've never b-read another's manuscript before, but I'd be willing to give it my all if we were to swap!

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I may have played too many soulsborne games because I've noticed quite a few inspirational aspects have leaked into my work... The werewolves being a prime example of that.. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Making this my official #betareader advertisement! Looking for free beta readers for my 75.5k horror/fantasy novel taking place in the late 1920s. Titled The Rabbit in Detective Wear, this story features vampires, werewolves, cryptic cults, and some LGBT elements. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Coming in at 75,539 words, I think its time for me to pass on this latest draft to some beta readers with fresh sets of humans eyes who WILL NOT under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES use generative AI to review my work. Time to brush off some old accounts, and let the search begin 🐇 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My MC's name is Felix O'Hare and he's a detective trying his best to solve his latest case and winds up way over his head. "Luckily" he gains aid from the other MC, Isaac, who's secretly a 300 y/o vampire who's bored with immortality and like to talk in confusing riddles

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Two I'd classify as main characters, although the identity of the second becomes apparent later on

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm a day late, but I think I came across a good snippet for #meddle Or, my MC trying to work through the consequences of his meddling by talking to his faithful orange cat companion, Shirley 🐱 #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

Felix paused his vocal thoughts, pressing the back of his head further into the cracked, leather chair. “Oh Shirley, I feel like I’m between a rock and a hard place,” he sighed. “There’s too much going on that have to work through. A rise in kidnappings, an underground crime organization, my department that would rather look the other way when things get too superstitious, a rebirthed cult that’s seeking immortality, vampires? What’s next? Ghosts? Frankenstein’s monster? Or maybe you’re secretly a shape shifter, seeking refuge in my home from some unspeakable deed.”
Felix removed his glasses, then rubbed his hands against his face and muttered, “All this because I decided to follow Jasper one night instead of listening to stay put for once.”

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I found this on Facebook from the Writing Workshops page and thought I might share it here in case anyone relates 🐻 #FatBearWeek #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

"You need to focus on your writing."
My priority this week:
Words "Fat bear week" overlaying a rainbow with a cluster of five extremely fat photos of bears cropped together.

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Mostly, aside from the journal entries, there's maybe 6 chapters that aren't following his POV

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just typeset my latest draft for funzies, and: 1. There's a certain satisfaction in seeing it in e-book form 2. As of now, my just under 75,000 word novel is sitting at 237 pages. Ironically, I thought it'd be longer. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #amediting

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My story has 2 primary POV characters, although one of them (the 300 y/o vampire) is mostly followed through past journal entries which pertain to story related events, and only occasionally becomes a chapter assigned POV character halfway through 🐇 #AwesomeCharacters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A stick. There's a scene where my MC stupidly wandered into what the city has proclaimed 'The Devil’s Forest' without a weapon, despite the supernatural danger, and decided carrying a stick found on the ground was the best way to defend himself. Spoiler, it didnt work. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Aaand fifth draft down. Should I be surprised that after this many read throughs I'm still finding words missing or spelt wrong? Hopefully the end of draft 6 will mark the start of the beta readers era. But I suppose only time will tell 🤗 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #amediting

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nothing like traumatizing my main character as he hides under the bed within an old abandon cabin in the woods as he realizes the murderous cult he disbanded five years prior never truly died. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

The detective pressed a hand against his mouth to mute his sudden panic, watching as the figure’s cloak came to rest just outside the edge of his hiding spot. The crimson fabric began to fold in on itself as the figure knelt down to inspect under the bed. Even through his blurred vision, Felix could still recognize that mask. The crude markings which resembled a twisted smile, carved onto the pale wood, enveloped in the cloak's shadows.
All those years ago, he watched as the last of those masks were burned in front of him, signaling the end of the cult. He could still feel the fire as the department burned away every last trace of them. Or so he thought.
The masked figure tilted their head as they analyzed the detective’s frightened figure before placing a gloved finger to their crooked smile, mimicking a show of silence. With their other hand, the figure delicately placed the glasses on the dusty floor between them. Felix remained frozen as he watched the mask disappear from slight, and the fabric unfold, carrying the figure out of the room, out of the cabin, back into the moonlit night.

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

No issues with just being curious 🤗 it's titled The Rabbit in Detective Wear, and the genre falls into fantasy/horror with a late 1920s setting.

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That all depends what your review methods are because under no circumstances will I allow/permit my work to be looked at or ran through using generative AI tools or bots.

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Making sure the story's flow makes sense, character interactions sound natural, there isnt any plot holes or points that I keep unintentionally skipping over, the scene makes sence given its 1927 time period, their geninue reaction to the story as well is always fun to see. Stuff like that

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Getting antsy while editing my latest draft. One or two more read throughs and it just might be ready to be reviewed by beta readers 👀 Of course, I'll have to search around for a few first... #amediting #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One of my favorite very specific tropes is a doctor turned into a vampire, and the moral turmoil such an event can potentially cause. So I figured why not have my main character interact with an individual who holds such a trope #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

Soft colored light bulbs were lit against the walls in holders modified from where candles once rested. Even the trim where the floor met the wall held an intricate, swirled design which added a subtitle tie-in to the vampiric hallway. “You must be quite the connoisseur of arts with all these paintings,” Felix noted, taking a moment to study one which, to the detective’s untrained eyes, looked to show a man drowning in the river while his farm burns in the background.
“Oh these,” she gave a light laugh as if they were part of some inside joke he was not aware of. “Most of them are gifts, or forms of payment. Like I said, I’ve earned my status through community, and sometimes bartering goods or service is just as formidable of payment as money.”

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thanks to a really neat drawing I found by Edouard Joseph d’Alton within the public domain, I was able to piece together an advertisement/concept cover of sorts for the next steps of finishing my 1920s horror/fantasy novel 🐇 #WritingCommunity #writesky

Text reads 'The Rabbit in Detective Wear' over a mock book cover with an orange background and rabbit skeleton emerging from the bottom left corner to center

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Dang, the eclipse tonight is looking a little too much like the one my main character nearly died under 😬 those pesky cults using lunar events to seek immortality... #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Full moon's red shaded eclipse taken through a telescope

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

One of my biggest fears as a writer is AI getting its dirty thieving fingers on my work. Especially before I personally get the chance to publish and share it with the world. Did I mention I hate generative AI? #amwriting

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Whatever you're willing to offer. Could be story flow, if things make sence, if something doesnt seem right for the time period, whatever... I'll give better details if I send an email over

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Maybe after a couple more read throughs. After about 2 or 3 more drafts, it should be ready for critiquing

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Currently, that should be it. At the moment, it's just under 73,500 words, and I have no plans on adding anymore chapters to the mix.

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Ever since my trip to Glacier NP, I've been having ideas to write something involving a firewatcher in her tower. Maybe something involving werewolves, something involving flowers appearing at her bottom step after every full moon #justideas #anotherstoryforthepile

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It's a 1920s fantasy/horror with werewolves, vampires, and a detective trying to stop a cult seeking immortality

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

And just like that, draft 3 is complete 🐇 Here's to doing that all over again in draft 4 #amediting #writingcommunity

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

You know what? I'm glad my previous quering failed. Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to tie in a malformed vampire who's had to rapidly heal from centuries worth of major injuries and a bloodborne beast looking werewolf who forever stays in that form because he lost his glasses. #amwriting

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The best part of having a pair of immortal creatures in your 1920s supernatural mystery/horror novel is giving those same two characters a surprise guest appearance in your sci-fi novels which take place a few 1000 years in the future just because you can 👀 #amwriting #WritingCommunity

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

240 comments, 2 full chapter re-writes and hundreds of highlights to fix a sentence later... and draft 2 is finally complete. 🐇🔍 #amwriting

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

New year, new draft. The resting period is finally over after draft one and I can now start the editing/re-writing of certain parts to begin draft two 🥳✍️ #amediting #amwriting #WritingCommunity

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Me several days after finishing my first draft, knowing letting it settle for a few weeks will give us both time to breathe before the revisions begin #WritingCommunity #amwriting

Louis staring at a prescription bottle that says 'starting the 2nd draft' with a great need to give into the need

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Thank you! And only if you'd like. It's gonna be quite a while until I'm ready for beta readers, maybe even another year, but I will definitely keep you in the back of my mind for once that time comes 💝

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Just finished the first draft of my latest #wip! Can't wait to begin the process next year of reading through it at least 10 times and editing it until it becomes polished enough for my best friend to beta read. 🫣 Does this count as a New Years Resolution? #amediting

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Submitted the last assignment for my latest class, plus a week off afterwards before starting another. Sounds like a good few days to catch up on some writing ✍️ #WritingCommunity #amwriting

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Just hit 20,000 words for my latest #WIP 🤗 Another milestone passed, excited to see what the next 10,000 words will bring #WritingCommunity

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Slowly coming back from my break of querying. Just sent two out, might wipe the dust off my querytracker account and try for more 🛸 #WritingCommunity #amquerying

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Just started Part 2 of my #WIP 🤗 gotta love that sweet sweet progress ##amwriting #WritingCommunity

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

When you're in the middle of writing and you have to verify whether or not the battery powered flashlight was around in the 1920s (it was) #WritingCommunity #amwriting

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🦇 Chris 🐇 Searching for Beta Readers @luckofthevoid.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

What does everyone use for writing/outlining? I was using reedsy, but I don't really want to pay $8 a month for features that used to be free #WritingCommunity #amwriting

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