Oh yeah, just a rough read-through for big-picture stuff would be fine; that's all I'm asking of my other betas as well (I also have a copy editor for SPAG stuff). I should also add that it's genre romance so it's ... romancy, very tropey, with the characters doing things that sensible people would probably not do like having sex in the monster-infested alien wilderness. That being said, I would like it to not be full of fixable plot holes.

The crazy thing about me is that, as a fanfic writer, I am almost entirely a gen writer. The first het sex scene I ever wrote was in my first romance novel. I basically learned how to do it from scratch, in the group, and now I'm really enjoying it and sort of retroactively applying it to fanfic and writing fanfic romance, which is something I never used to do except every once in a great long while. (I still write mostly gen, though.) I never in a million years would've thought I'd make a living writing romance, but ... well, here I am. I'm not saying that it's going to be for everyone, but I think I was an unusual "backwards" example of someone who writes a lot of profic romance these days but never actually wrote or read it back in my fanfic days.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to reading your novel! :) Thank you!