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Nick Roberts

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Hi everyone. I’ve almost finished my first manuscript and I would appreciate any advice please. Do you think I should use beta readers to give feedback? If so can anyone recommend any good sources? Or maybe anybody here is willing to read it? I am thinking to self publish on Amazon if anyone has had experience of this please. The genre is fantasy and the word count is approximately 162k. Thanks in advance.
 
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