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I've just had exactly those same words Michelle. THEY NEED TO GO!!!

Another question;  do they,are they reading from the point of view of the average TNBW reviewer? Do they want the separated paragraphs and 'review' layout that is normal for workshopping in TNBW?   As I have attempted to say in various ways; though good for review the format is not really like a 'published' format.  The two are read differently, story arcs and hooks are different. Are we who enter, trying for the best, reviewable series of chapters OR are we trying for the best first 3 chapters of a published novel?  I am sorry, but they are not the same thing.  Personally I would like to submit a separate file (.doc or .pdf even .mobi) that was my book submission for the competition - before deadline - and that was it. Dunecan

Thanks for your thoughts Dirk.
I guess I'll just do a FIX of my own in the pre chapter blurb to say please review Chapter x if you would like to read up to it then here it all is in one continuous document at 'LINK.' Maybe others will do the same particularly those wanting reviews of a high chapter number. As you say one has limited time often and I'm afraid the thought of ploughing through chapters  I am not reviewing in the site format is very off-putting, it is fine for reviewing but not for a good continuous book read.
I have published a full-colour glossy paperback travel book 'BackRoads of Spain' then converted it for Kindle (and the rest through Smashwords) and last month a Travel Short in full colour for Kindle Select and Print On Demand through Create Space so if anyone has any questions about the process I'll be pleased to answer.

Thanks for that Dirk.  'Paragraph spacing' - I just mean that in book form the layout would be different in my view, not spaced out not broken up so much and I certainly will have longer chapters. (I figured there were others who also don't want to spend a big slot of time on long chapters so I artificially broke my first two up).
I find going through all the review pages to get through ten chapters a bit of a drag and again doesn't really read like the book.
I tend to do revisions as I go and as a lead in to writing time so for me after a certain point reviews of early chapters when I need the later ones done is a problem, which is where having the early ones available to read but not review would be handy.
But my best wish would be to read the work through perhaps from a .mobi file on my E-reader simulator or whatever or .pdf ss in the link I put in the earlier message. Then choose the Chapters to revue.  Hope that makes my complicated thoughts clearer. D

Thanks for your thoughts on it. Because it starts with three consecutive days it felt right originally for the first three chapters to cover a day each as they are pretty intense. They were then about 4-5,000 each.  Currently I found reasonable places to split the first two into four but I don't think the hooks are quite as good.

I put Fire Head in last year or the year before but didn't get anywhere.  I did wonder if it being a teen-age western, (I don't like the term western because it seems to be seen as a rather low form of historical fiction) made any difference as it had got to the last hundred or so from 3500 entries in a Waterstones competition.  Still I'll give it a go with Fire in the Blood.  Only thing is deciding whether to go back to the longer chapters which for a book as opposed to on-line reviewing I think better.

I don't see a prob with people wanting a leg up but I do wonder if it wouldn't be possible to have separate page where all such requests whether for Amazon reviews or grubstaking were (in a 'gallery' ?). Here any rewards for support etc would be stated.
Passed on messages to 'connections' would provide a reasonable start notification but also one could go see what members were getting published etc.
These requests would also not quickly get subsumed somewhere in a forum thread.

I am also heading for publication with book one of a series, I hope on 1st december.  Thing is I am looking hard at what is the most important thing to buy in and that seems to be the editing/proof reading, I have been quoted (from a free check of the first 2,000 words) around £2-300 for a 50-70,000 word novel which seems reasonable to me, so for that I think it's important to do as much nit-picky editing as possible to limit how much they estimate they need to do. I have to admit I can do my own cover and typeset as I already have done so for books self-published on Amazon.  The thing I think will cost most is getting the marketing on social media working cos I probably need to pay for that as I don't know enough and don't want to spend the time I could be writing on it. What are other peoples thoughts on the way forward and its costs?

Thanks Dirk, that does make it clear to me.
On a slightly differing note I think having the newly published list categorised by groups rather than as by order of submission of any genre is a bit self-defeating, if you want to only read things in your genre you probably would go that group listing and are quite likely to be told of postings anyway due to connections etc As it is now, one has to make a positive decision to go look at other genres rather than your own which makes it less likely for you to review outside that and vice versa thereby lessening the number of potential new reviewers reading one's work

I agree, I find it confusing, the old way where it was a list of various types of writing as they were uploaded meant that when you had time to review you looked through a number of pieces of work/genres and chose the ones you liked and then reviewed, it meant a bigger spread of genres per reviewer probably which meant a wider feedback pattern and the wider the feedback the better as far as I am concerned. I don't want to only be reviewed by writers in my genre, thats preaching to the converted to an extent.

Aiming to get Fire in the Blood there if I can. I have found a semi-derelict cottage that just fits for 'her' house so am re-writing some of the descriptions to suit, it makes it all feel so much more real, though I had done sketchs and plans of my first imagined one.  A bigger challenge has been designing The Plas mansion as there is no plans or records of its size or appearance. But I am basing it around an extant medieval welsh hall. I shall read soothsayer soon, as it is I shouldn't be here... Ooops get back to WRITING BOY...