How silly is too silly???
I need a bio for the book. How ridiculous can I be? Please vote!
Option 1.
You have not read Laurel Snyder’s first book for middle grade readers, The Very Bad Unicorn, because it was hand-written, bound in old pieces of pink wallpaper, and accidentally thrown out by her mother (in a fit of cleaning) when Laurel was only eight. She has been working on this book ever since. Please, whatever you do, keep it away from your mother when she is straightening up! (For more, visit LaurelSnyder.com)
Option 2.
Laurel Snyder has written many books about many things, but this one is her favorite. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an occasional commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia, in a little brick house with a pale green door. Visit her online at LaurelSnyder.com.
Or something more formal? Do I need to mention schooling? Past books? My kid?
Option 1.
You have not read Laurel Snyder’s first book for middle grade readers, The Very Bad Unicorn, because it was hand-written, bound in old pieces of pink wallpaper, and accidentally thrown out by her mother (in a fit of cleaning) when Laurel was only eight. She has been working on this book ever since. Please, whatever you do, keep it away from your mother when she is straightening up! (For more, visit LaurelSnyder.com)
Option 2.
Laurel Snyder has written many books about many things, but this one is her favorite. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an occasional commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia, in a little brick house with a pale green door. Visit her online at LaurelSnyder.com.
Or something more formal? Do I need to mention schooling? Past books? My kid?
4 Comments:
Had I not been hot to trot into the prison this afternoon I would have gushed more about the second option there. I really like it. Especially the bit about the green door. (Thanks for the help, by the by.)
You might also throw in something about little Mose, but then again, you might want to keep your personal life out of it. Wait, you're my big sister. Nix that last line.
What about using them both? I like the second one, too, esp. the bit about the door, as Emma said.
But the first one, what if you you used a version of that on the "intro" page, as a welcome into the book?
The first one appeals to the kids who are reading, the second one appeals to the parents who are buying.
I might be square, but I like #2 the best out of all of them, having also seen 1, 3, and 4.
Good luck!
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I'm a bit square, too (but you knew that).
i like #2 the best, but think about adding "with her family" or "wither her husband and son and their menagerie" before the part about the pale green door (which I totally dig since my bench is the same color).
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