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dreaded questions, parts II and III
2. So, any thoughts about a TAG LINE?
This one is hard, I'm still thinking about what to tell you. So hold on.
3. Do you have a author bio for us to use?
Every bad girl instinct I have surges forth when I get this question. Oh sure, I'll write an author bio. Not necessarily MY author bio, but here goes:
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The author lives on twenty ocean-side acres on Maui with her family, ten small dogs, and a household/office/garden staff of five. As her last three books stayed on the best seller list for two years each, she's not in a hurry to write the next one and so she spends her time in art classes and taking her daughter shopping.***
When she's not writing, the author is on the set of Farscape, the critically acclaimed sci-fi television show which she personally resurrected from undeserved cancellation with the billions she made on her last novel.***
Really, do you need to know anything about the author? Don't those wonderful cover blurbs from Candace Bushnell, Oprah Winfrey, Rebecca Wells, Alice Munro, Elinor Lipman, Jennifer Wiener, Annie Proulx and Ann Rice make it clear that you should be sprinting to the cashier with multiple copies of this novel?***
While you are spending time reading this totally fictitious blurb, inside the book the characters are talking about you while they have great sex and good times. Ooops, too late. You missed it.***
Anybody care to write my author bio for me?
September 13, 2005 04:25 PM
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I look for the author bios. Looking to see if the author does other interesting things or if I have anything in common with him/her. If there is something different, it makes the author stand out and I'm able to recall the name, even if I thought the book was just ok.
I just read one from "The Time Traveler" by J. Twelve Hawks. Thought it was cool that he is "off the grid".
Posted by: Anne at September 13, 2005 07:54 PM
Go for option two - I would buy every single book an author had ever written if that was the tag line! :o)
Posted by: Meredith at September 14, 2005 05:24 AM
I never read the biography until I'm finished the book. I remember being shocked that Chris Bohjalian was a man after reading Midwives. Shocked. I was further shocked that he looked like such a conservative stick-in-the-mud in his picture.
Maybe get a little creative while writing your bio. Channel one of your characters and let her write it for you.
Posted by: sarandipity at September 14, 2005 09:27 AM
I particularly like the second example. If only it were true. *sigh*
Posted by: Cate at September 14, 2005 11:45 AM