How To Write A Bio For Your Press Kit

Websites for Creating a Biography for a Press Kit
&
What they had to offer

“How to Write an Impressive Biographical Sketch”

by Tawnicia Ferguson Rowan's

A list of 5 tips for writing your bio. Logical sensical advice.

http://www.ehow.com/how_4531922_write-impressive-biographical-sketch.html?ref=fuel&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=ssp&utm_campaign=yssp_art

“How to Write a Bio for Your Press Kit”

By Joan Stewart

Taking an original approach. Not creating reading material to aid your readers sleep with an example of writing a poem.

http://www.publicityhound.com/free_publicity/Articles/How_to_write_a_bio.htm

“Biography Writing Format”

Good overview of what to include for different sized bio – looks at writing a bio of someone other than self, but can still be applied to writing a personal bio.

http://www.writeanygenre.com/biography-writing-format.html

“Writing An Author Bio That Will Knock The Editor’s Socks Off!”
By Dorothy Thompson

Includes pointers for the unpublished author’s bio. How to sell yourself to interest the editor before you’re published.

http://www.absolutewrite.com/freelance_writing/bio.htm

“How To Write Your Own Bio”

Pointers on what to include in a writer’s personal bio.

http://www.howtodothings.com/hobbies/a4168-how-to-write-your-own-bio.html

"How to Write a Personal Bio"

on wikiHow

http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Personal-Bio

“8 Tips to Write a Professional Bio”

What to include & how to approach it.

http://blog.brand-yourself.com/2008/8-tips-to-write-a-masterful-bio/

“How to Write a Personal or Professional Bio”

Unique information about using your first or last name in the body of your bio. Sells templates for short bios or longer biographies.

http://howtowritebio.com/

“Writing a Personal Biography”

General overall description of the process

http://www.how-to-write-better.com/articles/writing-non-fiction/writing-a-personal-biography

“How do I write a great bio”

How to make your bio interesting and provide readers with the flavor of your personality.

http://www.essortment.com/all/howwritebio_rfin.htm

“4 Tips for Writing Your Personal Branding Biography”

The tone and character portrayal (your online persona), discussion of your profile picture as it corresponds to your bio, editing, and what to include.

http://blog.lookuppage.com/2009/04/-4-tips-for-writing-your-personal-branding-biography.html

“Writing Your Personal or Business Biography”

A general outline of what a business bio should include

http://www.solo-e.com/library/articles/marketing-basics/writing/writing-your-personal-or-business-biography-3201.shtml

For a general list of the pointers I have arrived at, come back for the next post and read the biography I wrote for my press kit.

DO YOU KNOW OF ANY GOOD WEBSITES OR BLOGS THAT PROVIDE GOOD TIPS TO WRITE A BIOGRAPHY? LEAVE A COMMENT & EMAIL ME TO TELL ME ABOUT IT.

Make a Game of It -Books or Short Story Sidebar

I'm still ironing out this idea. Have you noticed your popular movies, cartoon characters or picture book characters have games loosely based on some of your childhood favorites.

What board games did you enjoy? What were some of the traits they shared?

• Roll a dice or spin a spinner to move so many spaces per turn.
• Cards with instructions to tell a player what to do.
• Spaces with instructions to move forward, backwards, to the beginning, end or some other location on the board.
  

What about card games? You could instruct people to put a sticker of some character(s) on specific playing cards.

Create a match game with your book characters & scenes. In Power point make a grid and fill in the grid with your graphics. Include instructions to cut them out of card stock. If you want to have it as a giveaway, you can cover each card stock sheet with clear shelf paper.

Make a Tic Tac Toe board. With two characters from your book 9designate them as x's & O's.

Are there other games you can think of converting or can you make up a compleely original game? Leave a comment and contribute your ideas.