the time has come...

[lagilman]

for me to give in, bite the bullet, embrace the ego, and put a photo and bio up on my web site.

Ugh.

I hate doing these things. Once the length has been hammered out(50 words? 100? 1000?) I never know if I should go for straight bio-speak in third person, a first-person narrative, go cute, go snark, get a guest-biographer to do it for me....

Anyone have any suggestions?


(I suspect that the photo choice will be easier -- something that's less than five years old and doesn't make me think "oh dear god, no...." There's got to be a photo like that somewhere, non?)

Comments

[deire.livejournal.com]

You have plenty of pictures. Even in con photos, you photograph very well. And if you're not sure, write one of each of your major choices and then pick, perhaps?

[ferragus.livejournal.com]

For Photo, you can always do an image search on google using your name. There's a couple of good ones out there, don't know how old they are though.

[lagilman]

they all make me cringe, actually. Except the one Ellen D. took of me, but that's nearing the 5-year mark...

photos and bio

[(Anonymous)]

Hmmm... well, maybe someone else can write the bio.

And I have NEVER seen a bad picture of you. You're a pretty lady who photographs well. So let's not hear this guff about bad pictures. You are not an unbiased source. :)

Neener. Neener. And also Neener.

AutoJim

Re: photos and bio

[lagilman]

You are not an unbiased source.


Very true. I think that I look far too much like my nicknamesake.

Re: photos and bio

[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

Hardly.
You did that web-cast interview thingie a while, while back wearing a chinese dress.
That was hot.
I don't think meerkats are hot...at least not in a chinese dress kind of way.
Oh $#&@ , I'm typing faster than my internal editor can work again...

I say get a hi-rez image from that interview and use that.
-=Jeff=-

Re: photos and bio

[(Anonymous)]

Definitely agree with Jeff. You looked great in that Chinese blue thingy. I wouldn't go as far as "hot", but definitely "cool".

FF

[debg.livejournal.com]

Snark the bio. It's what we did, after I began tearing my hair out.

[kalligraphy.livejournal.com]

Go for the snark, it's more YOU. :)

[allaboutm-e.livejournal.com]

My votes -- either first person, or guest bio by the cats...

And not only a bio by the cats...

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

...let them be in charge of protecting you from trolls. Take a picture that has you holding or petting cats (preferably a photo you like). I will make two author photos, and we can have the one of cats and your hands at one point, and a click-through to see the full scale pic.

You'd be amazed how many people, when I say the photo's on the web site, say: "We need one of you, not the gargoyle."

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

In my minds eye I always see you dashing up the aisle at a auction for the SFWA medical thing at the WC in Texas. You are full of joy and laughter. Pick a picture where you are laughing. You are one of those people who light the room up.

[lagilman]

aw, Marty, I was working on a really good crappy mood tonight, and you had to go and ruin it....