1. Put it off until your publisher emails asking for it with a hint of urgency.
2. Decide that since you actually blow-dried your hair, why not do it now?
3. Make your husband follow you around the yard with a camera, deciding if tree-bark or leaves makes a better backdrop.
4. Decide that leaves do.
5. Change your mind 9 times about which leaves do.
6. Attempt several shots with two little boys tugging your knees and elbows.
7. Pick up a boy, hoping to look more relaxed.
8. Utterly fail to look more relaxed.
9. Upload shots to your computer and decide they're all hopelessly awful.
10. Repeat steps 4-6.
11. Jump back to 9 but find a single photo that isn't quite so terrible, maybe.
12. Send it to your brilliant photographer sister who says: "I love it, but there's some distortion from the camera being so close. Let me fix that."
13. Rub your evil hands together and cackle that she took the bait.
14. Send a much-improved photo off to your publisher.
15. Plan to use it "officially" for the following several decades. (That's how it's done, right?)
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Ooh la la! Lovely shot!
ReplyDelete*blushes* Thanks, Jess. <3
DeleteI love this photo, and I love the peek under the hood of a glamorous author's life. This made me laugh out loud!
ReplyDeleteHa. Thanks, Dana. Yes, it's oooh sooo glamorous! ;D
DeleteGreat photo Alina! Pat has mad photo skillz!
ReplyDeleteHe did well, didn't he? Much better photographer than I am. I have more tilted, half-blocked shots of my thumb than I need, certainly.
DeleteGreat photo Alina! Pat has mad photo skillz!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photo Alina! You found the perfect one :)
ReplyDeleteI always wondered how the author photos came to be. It is nice that you get to pick it yourself and the publisher doesn't put you up against a black wall in their office or something.
I'm sure everyone has a different method. Many authors probably get professional shots. Lucky for me I have a professional on-call to fix our amateur ones. :D
DeleteExcellent choice! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, John. :)
DeleteI knew I was getting suckered all along.
ReplyDeleteGood thing you like me enough to be so transparently suckered. :D You're way too kind, my dear!
DeleteToo funny -- and great photo, BTW! :)
ReplyDelete:D Thanks, Steph.
Deletedefinitely the way it is done :D And..why change the photo?? It's going to be in print forever ;)
ReplyDeleteYou totally nailed it, Tara. Digital-shmigital. Forever is way more like it. ;)
DeleteGreat post! I LOVE that you have the octopus necklace on!! ^_^
ReplyDeleteThe same one I was wearing when I saw you, right? This photo was taken hours before that. In fact, you're the reason I'd blow-dried my hair. ;D
Deleteoh la la!! I feel so honored! ^_^ heehee
DeleteFunny but your author's photo steps sound exactly like the way hubby had his photo taken for the departmental website's faculty listing...minus the kids part (we made sure to lock the kids indoors...hah!).
ReplyDeleteYou are very photogenic!
By the way, is that really an octopus necklace or is that Cthulhu or the FSM in disguise? ;D
Locking kids indoors--brilliant!
ReplyDeleteAnd the necklace is *actually* a fancified silver fork that Pat brought back to me from Sweden. Highly likely it was inspired by the FSM, though. Cthulhu, not so much... ;)