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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
I'm smart and good looking, but I'm not perfect.
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You left out modest!
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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
If they are too cute (i.e. list all their dogs named Sam, or talk about kid's 'poopy' diapers), or obviously contain a lot of inside 'jokes', I begin to suspect that if you can piss me off in 2 or 3 paragraphs, what could you do with a whole book?
Just give me the straight info; tell me who you are, and why you think you aren't a big fool for writitng the book.
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In defense of authors who mention cats-kids-spouses in their bios, those are often written by publicisits who are trying to reach a very specific demographic of readers (and I'd guess you're not it). Some genres of fiction in particular are aimed at readers who want to know that the author is a fun/friendly/warm-hearted person.
And yes, it's also important that readers who'd be turned off by such subjects learn from the bio that this is NOT the author for you.
Once when I grew tired of all the bios of authors in my genre mentioning how much they love cats/kids/spouses, I came up with a bio that went like this: "DoreenJoy is happily child-free, believes animals belong out of doors or in the refrigerator, and recently told her husband of 30 years that buying a house with him would be too big of a commitment."
Completely unusable in my chosen genre, but it did get a load off my chest. I considered sending it in with a book submission to give the editor a laugh, but I was afraid it might accidentally get picked up and used.