An
"author photo" is a picture of the person who wrote a book. It's usually found on the back of the book or in the author's biography.
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Brand yourself by using the same
professional author photo, similar headers, and a bio that clearly states you are an author.
It matters because results
with author photos get more clicks than results without the photos.
There are a lot of mistakes you can make, but we've narrowed it down to the top four mistakes that keep
author photos from being a great book marketing tool.
Having a
good author photo increases your recognition factor for readers and helps the reader feel a connection to you.
Then we get into her strategies for managing advance reader teams, choosing the right public relations firm, time management and even the importance of having a set of professionally
done author photos.
Author photos go on the back of your book's cover next to the About the Author section, as well as on your website, social media profiles, and media kit.
To have a
decent author photo, you don't need to look like a model or a movie star, but spending the time to get a decent picture will make a difference.
Because your photo ends up so many different places, you want to make sure it's the
best author photo you've got.
When I wanted to get a professional
author photo for Buckley's Story that also included Amber, I turned to Megan.
But Hoult's sneering preppy countenance simply lacks the melancholy - rebel mystique that made
author photos of the real Salinger convey such a mix of world - weary smarts and woundedness.
(For example, the dyspeptic woman in the Setnick
author photo looks like a serial killer but claims to spend her spare time teaching children to skip.)
Gads, I even had a professional
author photo shoot down — all casual in my offices over the Holidays.
It's here where you update your bio, publicity placements,
upload author photos, incorporate your twitter and RSS feeds, claim your author URL, and add video.
Pessl's writing, her $ 500K + publishing deal and her
fetching author photo combined to create a perfect storm of publicity around the book, which garnered mixed reviews, but all - around high marks for ambition.
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We've seen
great author photos with backgrounds in the woods, on a beach, or in the mountains, but the surrounding environment doesn't distract from the photo and it's appropriate for the book subject matter.
Some of you will have seen Harry in my
official author photo — he brings his own special something to my life and work.
Kim Harrison is known for her sexy urban fantasy novels starring witches and demons — but the best - selling writer has a secret life that features «jeans and scuffed boots» that are a far cry from her leather -
clad author photos.
If you're running an employee advocacy program, and you have multiple employees writing on one site — for example, one site with multiple bloggers — it can be very difficult to get Google to
display author photos and snippets in organic search results.
The event, sold out a week prior to the date, was attended by close to 300 people who chose between more than 21 workshops, nine seminar sessions, a battery of agent - pitching sessions, all set up with
free author photos, and a welcome reception at the end of the day.
Before you roll your eyes, here's a funny post from guest blogger Erin Hosier (on author / editor / agent Betsy Lerner's blog) about why the Great American Novelist's
author photo just doesn't do anything for her.
Based on her notoriously
severe author photos, I expected Donna Tartt's talk to be on the serious side — perhaps a lofty talk about the aims of fiction, or the dignity of authorship.
Your title listing should include both a high - res cover and
author photo since they will be featured prominently on our homepage, Author Network, BookShop and social media.
And there was a woman in New York last year who upbraided me mercilessly for using what she called an
old author photo that made me look younger than I really was.
In the first of a two - part post, Author's Digest offers five tips for making a professional and
effective author photo.
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Unprofessional practices — such as sending form letters or postcards with boxes for editors to check off and return to indicate interest, «bundled» queries (several queries in the same envelope), «blitz» or shotgun submissions (submissions to a dozen or more publishers simultaneously, often without careful targeting), «packaging» a submission with unnecessary extras such
as author photos, cover mockups, or sample illustrations.
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