Hey Writers,

I know everyone has beta readers. Are they people you know from other walks of life? Are they all volunteers? How do you get them? Offer to read theirs? Buy them candy? Sex? (Yeah, like anybody'd be impressed if I offered that)....

Does beer work?

 Ha! I am such a doofus.

Ray Rhamey has a first page critique going on over at his blog, http://floggingthequill.typepad.com/ . He calls it "Flogging the Quill" and his critiques are "public flogging."

So I sent him the first chapter of Moon over Donamorgh. In the subject line, I put "public flogging: Moon..." 

SPAM! It seemed to go through okay and I got Ray's reply, with the huge SPAM warning attached.  

No doubt, I am now on somebody's Watch List, for naughty sites, with a decided preference for S&M. 

Ah well. Could be worse, I guess...