Beta Reader Update

Posted on April 1, 2004    Posted by John Scalzi

So, I got a lot of people volunteering to be beta readers — a multiple of what I needed — so what I did was make a list of everyone who asked, in order of when I received their e-mail, and then went down the list, eliminating every seventh name until I got to the bottom of the list, then rearranged the list of remaining names by alphabet and eliminated every seventh name… well, you get the idea that I really did try to make it a fairly random mix and that if you weren’t picked you shouldn’t think it was because I hate you with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns. Really, it’s not that. I’m very fond of all of you, honest.

Those of you who I did pick will get an e-mail by the end of the work day (5pm eastern time).