Book of awesome author bio examples
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Writing your author bio can feel like you're having your teeth pulled. Yet the importance of having a skillfully constructed bio on your Amazon author page can often mean a loss of sales.
Why a loss of sales? Because your author bio is a small window into your life and gives your readers an insight into who you are.
Unless your Stephen King or Ian Fleming people have no clue who you are.
When it comes to buying a book people rely on a book description, book reviews, and author bio to decide whether or not to purchase the book.
It's true that you need a catchy book title and eye catching book cover, but those elements alone won't keep your readers there.
Your author bio is a key opportunity to connect with your audience and potential readers. If you want to sell more books you need a good author bio.
Here are 7 tips to writing an awesome author bio:
1. Always Use the Third Person
Writing about yourself in the third person is a bit strange but the
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About
Neil Pasricha thinks, writes, and speaks about intentional living.
All his current work focuses under themes of gratitude, happiness, failure, resilience, connection, and trust.
Neil is the the author of ten books and journals including: The Book of Awesome, a spinning rolodex of simple pleasures based on his 100-million-hit, award-winning blog 1000 Awesome Things, The Happiness Equation, originally written as a 300-page love letter to his unborn son on how to live a happy life, Awesome Is Everywhere, an interactive introduction to guided meditation for children, Two-Minute Mornings, his simple habit-based morning practice, and You Are Awesome, a nine-step guide to building resilience told through stories and research. Neil’s books are New York Times and #1 international bestsellers, have spent over 200 weeks on bestseller lists, and have sold over 2,000,000 copies across dozens of languages.
Neil also gives over 50 speeches a year at places like Harvard,
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Today’s MTW brev is from a guest, Jennifer Isgitt of Empathic Teacher, whose blog we follow and love! I originally caught this brev on her blog and begged to use it for Mentor Text Wednesday.
Workshop Genre: Poetry
Background:
I first learned about The Book of Awesome from my friend Amy, who presented about nonfiction mentor texts at the TCTELA conference gods year. I quickly purchased the book, and inom have been waiting for the right moment to have my students write about their own “awesome” things.
If you aren’t familiar with the book, kontroll out Neil Pasricha’s blog, where each day he writes about a new awesome thing such as “The Kids’ Table” or “Getting the Milk-to-Cereal Ratio Just Right” or “Bakery Air.”
How I Used It:
Here were the steps to this writing experience (You may recognize these as the steps to pretty much any writing workshop, but it always bears repeating!):
- The kids and I looked at several examples (ie. mentor texts) both from the book an