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Mar.13.2012
When I decided to have professional photos taken for my redroom and my author website (www.jillhedgecock.com), I asked around for recommendations from my writer friends, but their leads were not exactly what I wanted. So I turned to the information highway. I had hoped that a simple internet...
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Jan.18.2012
About an hour ago, I sent my new author photo off to New York. Unless the good folks at Penguin want or need to change it for some reason, here is the winning photo:
What do you think? Would Velva Jean approve? (After all, I am wearing red lipstick.)
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Jan.10.2012
For every author photo that appears on a book, there are hundreds of possibilities of photos that could have been used but weren’t. In keeping with the fact that I’m in the midst of choosing a new author photo for Velva Jean #3, here is a little gallery of author photos that might have been...
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Oct.20.2010
Pretty Pink Tuesday Makeover Originally uploaded by laurienphotography There is a chapter that I had to take out of Leaving Atlanta where Octavia gets her hair pressed for the very first time. She thinks that she will get to a salon and pick her style out of a hair magazine, but her mom sends to...
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Jul.15.2010
To be honest, I'm not sure why I'm not skipping right over this author photo bit and moving on to The Four Ms. Bradwells showing up on Amazon. I. Hate. Photos. Of. Myself. For my author photo for my first novel, I went to a swanky photographer who worked with a make-up artist who, among other...
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Dec.12.2009
So, what's more nervewracking, worrying about who is going to show up at a reading or getting your author photo taken?
You know the answer.
Writers, at least the ones I know, are dreamy, eccentric people who like solitude, who often write in their pajamas or sweats and who would rather have root...
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Aug.22.2009
New post on the dreaded Author Photo over at my Facebook blog:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Matthew-Pearl-author/29977879540#/note.php?note_id=121322089604&ref=mf
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