Post by ella on Mar 31, 2011 21:59:32 GMT -5
I can write a NF author bio no problem. I can cobble together a couple of sentences about myself for a cover or query letter. I'm pretty sure I'd have no problem writing a jacket blurb, or waxing on about myself in a press release. But I have no clue what to write for a fiction bio for a proposal. So... I'm going to work through it... in public... hopefully without getting egg on my face... hopefully with a little help from my friends... some of who are probably stuck as well... 9Deep breath) Without further ado:
-- My NF creds seem irrelevant (at best I can say I've been published in teen mags when I'm trying to pitch an idea for 4 year olds; everything else is just straight-up nerdy).
-- My stories are not weighty enough to claim any ties to them. ("While I lack royal blood, I'll always be a princess to my dad." "I can fart with the best of them." "My daughter inspired this series." Bleh!)
-- Does it matter that 23,414 people read my online articles in the past seven days alone if the overwhelming majority of those articles have nothing to do with kid lit?
-- Does it matter than I'm a military wife? That I've lived in a lot of places? How about that I worked at a library, with kids? Does it help that I'm a reviewer for Amazon (not a top-thousand reviewer, but a "Vine Voice")?
-- I don't tweet, I don't blog, and I don't want to create a website until I actually have a book deal. I *am* on Facebook, but I have friends and family, not legions of followers.
In other words, I feel like at best I can write some slightly-out-of-the-norm trivia about myself. In all this muck, what would an editor care about? (A generic response would be fine, because I'm sure a lot of other people feel the same way, though their autobiographical bullets will be different.)
-- My NF creds seem irrelevant (at best I can say I've been published in teen mags when I'm trying to pitch an idea for 4 year olds; everything else is just straight-up nerdy).
-- My stories are not weighty enough to claim any ties to them. ("While I lack royal blood, I'll always be a princess to my dad." "I can fart with the best of them." "My daughter inspired this series." Bleh!)
-- Does it matter that 23,414 people read my online articles in the past seven days alone if the overwhelming majority of those articles have nothing to do with kid lit?
-- Does it matter than I'm a military wife? That I've lived in a lot of places? How about that I worked at a library, with kids? Does it help that I'm a reviewer for Amazon (not a top-thousand reviewer, but a "Vine Voice")?
-- I don't tweet, I don't blog, and I don't want to create a website until I actually have a book deal. I *am* on Facebook, but I have friends and family, not legions of followers.
In other words, I feel like at best I can write some slightly-out-of-the-norm trivia about myself. In all this muck, what would an editor care about? (A generic response would be fine, because I'm sure a lot of other people feel the same way, though their autobiographical bullets will be different.)