Seeking Beta-Reader for fictionalized memoir will beta in exchange if wanted

[CHPWriter]

My name is Bob and I am a writer from Chicago. I have a finished manuscript and am requesting a beta reader. It falls under the "fictionalized memoir" category and is around 75,000 words, so an experienced beta-ready is preferred. I know this is a big ask, but if you are up for it, I would appreciate hearing back from you. I'm also fine with you checking it out and if you decide it's not for you, just let me know.

I will beta in exchange if wanted.

Why The Heck Would You Read My Memoirs?

I always figured the cost of a book was a cheap price to pay to learn from someone’s lifelong experiences. Socrates agreed: “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall gain what others have labored hard for.”

What’s in it for you? A candid and deeply personal chronicle of my life and hard-won self-understanding that will have you finding many parallels between your life experiences and mine. Research has shown that the best way to assimilate new information is via anecdotes or witnessing it working or not working for another person, so I recount my experiences with unflinching and flinching honesty. Relating my experiences and the practical lessons I learned might in turn offer useful insight to yourself when you need it and make a positive difference in your life - at my expense.

The process of reflection allowed me the rewards of self-assessment by critically evaluating the cumulative impact of my experiences. It revealed what and who shaped me, why I acted the way I did, and how I evolved - or didn’t. Writing about my life allowed me to gain much-added wisdom from this introspection. I discovered many reasons for how I became who I am and why, but in the end, you will not know everything there is to know about me, and neither will I.

If you come along on my voyage of discovery, I assure you will laugh often at my implausible and outrageously funny escapades as I puzzle together the pieces of my life. I also believe you will connect with my plights which will help you along your path.

“Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own.”

— Bruce Lee

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You will soon read battles between my favorable and unfavorable traits have provided a protagonist and antagonist for my life story. May the best man win!

Thanks,

Bob