You’re Telling Me…
My book is only as good as my author’s photograph?
Okay, not entirely, but it’s been heading that way for a while. Yet, most of the writers I know tend to me introverted individuals who hate to have their pictures taken and prefer to hide behind their work. In fact, one of the reasons I wanted to be a writer, as a kid, was that it was a profession you could have where you did NOT have to worry about whether or not you were attractive or thin or (these days) young. I always knew I could keep writing well into my eighties, or as long as my brain and my fingers let me, because what I looked like didn’t matter.
And now, it’s official, even writing has become nothing but a marketing farce.
Okay, not really, but that’s the first reaction I had this radio article.
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on April 8th, 2009 at 8:16 AM
You’re telling me! Mo took pics for my book (knowing it wasn’t gonna be a huge pic of me on the back cover, I figured we could do an easy digi) and when I presented my choices to my editor, I hated the one she picked. It was actually a mistake to send it – Mo had slipped it in as a choice because HE liked it. It’s an okay pic, a bit too eh for me. Since then I have used the pic I wanted in other places: on FB, in flyers, etc. and EVERYONE loves it. All I can say is go with your gut on a pic and what YOU feel represents the real you. I wish I had done that altho not entirely sure if it would have made a big diff in sales.
on April 8th, 2009 at 11:11 AM
Is there a how to somewhere on how writers should go about coming up with a decent pic, I wonder?