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The dos and do not dos of author photos
It's all well and good to have an exquisitely-rendered cover that beckons to the reader from across the room. But if the reader, so tempted, opens said tome to reveal an author photo akin to a blurry passport, well, you've lost them.
We must never forget the most important element of the novel as a physical entity on the shelf; the author photo. This is the image you will carry with you for the life of the novel, and you must take care to present yourself in a way both pleasing to the eye, and representative of the book. Not an easy task.
With that in mind, I’ve consulted the indispensable resource Complete Modeling for Dummies and have taken the liberty of whipping up via computer camera a few traditional poses you could adopt. The images are of poor quality, but I think you’ll get the gist of the many options.
I present to you now, the many shadings of [insert author name here].
“The Can’t be Bothered” – a classic
“The Professor” – good for academics
“The Mystery Man” – aka “The Pynchon”
“The Sith Lord”
“The Secret Agent”
“The Bubbles”
“The Gillespie”
“The Warhol”
“The Vogue”
Adapted with permission from the blog post "The 5000 Faces of Dr. C" at www.coreyredekop.ca.
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