Stuck Writing Your Author Bio? Try The (Totally Not Serious) Author Bio Generator

This post from Helen is one of the funniest I’ve read for a while – perfect for authors struggling with writing their bio… Please don’t like or comment on the reblog – hop on over to Journey to Ambeth and say hello. I promise, you’ll love this!

Helen Glynn Jones

I’m so fabulous and interesting.

So I’ve been noticing a trend recently of, shall we say, somewhat overwrought author bios, in which every detail is teased into something magnificent, a picture of a life fabulously lived. I realise that there are, in fact, authors who do live wonderfully exciting lives but I also seem to remember a time when it wasn’t really important to know about it. A time when an author bio was a few lines at the end of a book, photograph optional, and usually read something like: ‘Author X was born in Wiltshire, and still lives there with her husband and three sons.’ Then, if Author X had written other books/and or won awards, these would also be listed. And that was about it. (I’m basing this on the very scientific research of spending time perusing my own bookcase and reading famous author bios, so you know…

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