Author Roni Lauren (who'll you'll be seeing here in an upcoming "How They Do It") has a great article on writing your author bio. Hers has a similar tone and style to my original one. Great minds think alike or just similar writers? Even though this is more for your professional bio, I think there's value in it even for those who are submitting and don't know what to say on their query.
The Author Bio: Six Important Components
So we're writers, right? Which means throwing together a few sentences about ourselves should be no big deal, right? No?
Damn.
So I've been working on that little thing called an author bio. You know, the thing that goes on your website/blog and eventually if you're published, in your book. It's only a few sentences but it's supposed to tell your reader something about you and hopefully make you seem...well, that's one of the issues. How do you want to appear? Likeable? Intelligent? Worldly? Funny? Mega-super-important?
Read the entire article here.
2 comments:
Thanks for linking to me! I was wondering why I was getting new comments on this post today. :)
Most welcome ;) It was a great post, and I'm trying to find old gems to share. There's so much great stuff out there
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