Brian Francis (Samuel Engelking)
Dear Agony Editor,
I accept a book advancing out and charge to accept my account taken. Any suggestions about what makes a acceptable columnist photo?
Signed,Camera Shy
Dear Camera Shy,
I’m animated you asked. Most authors focus on their writing. Fair enough, but a glossy columnist photo (in colour, black-and-white, print, and web versions) will admonition your book’s publicist, admonition the columnist festivals you’re arrive to, and admonition Variety annual back it announces Oprah has bought the rights to your book.
It could be the alone way that readers appointment you. Your columnist photo is your account of how you appetite others to apperceive you. So the way you present yourself visually to the apple is important.
Rather than opting for that vacation photo of you in the Tilley hat continuing abutting to a donkey, I advance hiring a able photographer. If you’re not abiding area to start, attending for columnist photos you like. Usually, the columnist will be credited, so you can analysis out that person’s website to appeal quotes.
Having said that, a affair with a able will run you on boilerplate about $350. If that’s not in your budget, accede accepting a acquaintance to booty your photo.
I batten to freelance columnist and Ryerson adviser Thomas Blanchard for some tips. Don’t abrasion accouterment that ability affray with your background, he said. Also, aces three options of accouterment that are wrinkle-free and fitted. Be acquainted of any altar abaft you; contrarily it ability attending like there’s a timberline limb growing out of your head. (Never a hot look.)
Shoot in the adumbration to abstain acrid shadows, accumulate your jaw pulled advanced to actualize added of a jawline, and about-face one accept advanced to abstain that mug-shot aesthetic. Most important: relax. Put yourself in an ambiance that makes you adequate and confident. Think balmy thoughts of family, pets, and hobbies while your photo is actuality taken.
My aftermost bit of advice? Accumulate your columnist photo current. Time gets the bigger of all of us, and there’s annihilation added alarming than affair a biographer in the beef and acumen their columnist photo was taken in 1978.
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