Meeting 1.

How to Write an Author Profile

To many, writing an author bio is an enigma wrapped in a riddle buried with Blackbeard’s treasure. It’s
hard to know what is and isn’t relevant. What sets one author bio apart from another? Does work
experience count? Is it accolades that matter most? What about education – does that make a
difference? How can you express who you really are while meeting readers’ expectations of you as an
author?

The task of writing an author bio can be daunting because it is more than just information about the
author. It is a crucial element in your branding strategy. How you present the information is as important
as what you are presenting. Your bio is something many readers will see before ever reading your
book, so its tone and verbiage may lead them to make assumptions about your book’s contents. The
task of writing a bio isn’t daunting if you know where to start and how to finish. Let’s get started with
some basic guidelines.

1. Distance Yourself.

Get ready to embrace your multiple personalities, because your author personal is not writing your
author bio. Your marketing personal is you have to completely separate yourself from the author within
and approach your bio from the third person. If a reader sees the pronoun “I” in a bio, he or she is
likely to deduce that it’s self-indulgent and amateurish.

2. You Are Your Genre.

Before you write your bio, you must commit to a genre. It’s important to understand what kind of book
you have written in order to reflect readers’ expectations. If you’ve written a dark horror novel, a bright,
perky description of the author isn’t going to help you reach your target fanbase.

3. Always Be Branding.

The author bio is essentially your business card. What do you usually find on a business card? Contact
information. If you haven’t given readers some way to get in touch with you, you missed the opportunity
to interact with a fan, and interaction means everything in today’s hyper-connected world. Give them a
web address. Tell them where to find you on Facebook and Twitter. You could even create an email
address specifically for fan email. Give them access to you, even if it’s just virtual access.

4. Keep It Brief.

Brevity is the soul of wit. Even if you’re William Shakespeare, you don’t want to write an author bio that
fills up the entire back cover. In an odd twist of logic, the more accomplished you are as an author, the
shorter your author bio can be. Pick up a Stephen King or Cormac McCarthy novel and you’re likely to
see an author bio that’s about 25 words. Pick up a book by an author you’ve never heard of, and you
might see a bio that’s 125 words. The more established the brand, the shorter the bio. If you have no
brand recognition yet, I suggest targeting a word count of 75, with a 10-word cushion on either side of
your target.

5. Be Humble.

Establish a sense of humility to connect with the reader. In your bio, you are laying out a case to
readers about why they should choose your book over another author’s. Chances are, you have
competition out there, so you have to walk the fine line of setting yourself apart without being a
braggart.

6. Get Personal.

Including some personal information in your bio is a good thing. If you have two kids and a dog that are
very important to who you are as human, include that information. Personal facts are a nice
complement to all those incredible achievements you’ve included; it gives you depth and helps you
make an emotional connection with the reader. If your list of achievements is somewhat lacking, the
personal information that makes you who you are can more than make up for it.

7. Fiction vs. Nonfiction.

There are key differences to writing an author bio for a fiction book and a nonfiction book. Nonfiction
relies heavily on an author’s credentials as it pertains to the book’s subject matter, even if that subject
matter is a memoir. How the author is an authority on the material is extremely important. Credentials
for fiction writers can be important in the mystery and suspense genres. For example, an ex-police
officer who pens a mystery novel can make a great impression on readers. However, one’s education
and experience outside of the world of writing is far less important in the fiction category. Bios for fiction
authors might do well to focus on the personal aspects highlighted above.

Those basics will get you started thinking about how you will write your author bio. Remember, your
author bio is a part of your brand, so make sure it is a reflection of who you really are as an author.

Tips and Examples For Writing Interesting Author Bio For Blogs

Author bio is short introduction about the author who have written the post. Good author bio is always
useful in many ways like if you are regularly guest blogging it may divert good number of traffic to your
blog which will earn you regular readers for your blog or will get you loyal twitter followers.

There are so no such guidelines you need to follow while writing author bio, but it is useful if you follow
some basic steps to get more out of your author bio information.

1.Introduce Yourself

The author bio should start with introduction of yourself, it may contain something personal about you
or things that you are passionate about like your hobbies, interest, or simply the place you live.
Alternatively you can describe your work or your new projects you are working on.

2.Keep It Short & Meaning Full

Bio should be always short, somewhere between 60-80 words will more then enough to give
information about your self & It should not contain unnecessary stuffs that will disinterest your readers.

3.Don’t Stuff It With Too Many URL’s

Just stuffing URL’s into author bio will make you look like an link spammer. You should not used more
then 4 URL’s that may include a link to your website,blog, Twitter & Facebook page. Try to spread this
spread this URL’s properly into your bio section rather then just listing URL’s one after the other.
4.Include Your Contact Information

Many people forget to include their contact details in the author bio section, which is not advisable as
people would like to get in touch with you. The contact information should appear at the end of the bio
section, you can use your Twitter, Facebook or email address as your contact info.

Example of Author Bio

I have shared some examples of author bio’s of famous blogger which will help you create your own
interesting bio.

(sharing email address on the profile)

(introducing other project)’

(Sharing personal & professional information

(Author Bio encouraging users to get connected on various social network)

(Intresting Bio providing info on common everyday activity)