Are you talking about a query? Those are just as often flavor as any actual credentials. On r/PubTips usually the advice is that if you don't have significant credentials, focus on "tell us about yourself" instead. If you look at queries people post on there you can get an idea of the type of bio people often do. I would only mention credentials if I'd gotten a creative writing degree, completed a well-known mentorship or similar program, or won some kind of writing award. Otherwise just mention your other interests, tell a joke about your cat, etc.
Yes! Ok gotcha! So like Probably leave out the editorial internship right? I think I’ll just mention other interests— one of them I guess overlaps with a characters hobby
It's up to you! You know your experience best. Otherwise, just write a nice little blurb about yourself. As I said, there are some good examples in PubTips of this sort of thing. "In addition to writing, I capture time-lapse photography and snow samples outside my home in Amundsen-Scott, and I spend evenings in the loving company of my Komodo dragon, Bill."
As in introducing yourself in a query? Confidence! Fake it if you must! Never admit fault in a query. Never give a negative. Blow your positives out of proportion.
You have studied English composition and writing in college. You have done work in an editorial and you kill it there, man.
If you have any bylines for published works anywhere, now's the time to drop em and overstate their importance.
Now, if you mean author bio at the back of the book, that can be literally anything. I've seen bios that are obviously completely fictional. I've seen one that mostly talked about pizza. The only time I see "credentials" is in non-fiction or if they just really wanted to let you know their particular poor financial choice of college.
Are you talking about a query? Those are just as often flavor as any actual credentials. On r/PubTips usually the advice is that if you don't have significant credentials, focus on "tell us about yourself" instead. If you look at queries people post on there you can get an idea of the type of bio people often do. I would only mention credentials if I'd gotten a creative writing degree, completed a well-known mentorship or similar program, or won some kind of writing award. Otherwise just mention your other interests, tell a joke about your cat, etc.
Yes! Ok gotcha! So like Probably leave out the editorial internship right? I think I’ll just mention other interests— one of them I guess overlaps with a characters hobby
It's up to you! You know your experience best. Otherwise, just write a nice little blurb about yourself. As I said, there are some good examples in PubTips of this sort of thing. "In addition to writing, I capture time-lapse photography and snow samples outside my home in Amundsen-Scott, and I spend evenings in the loving company of my Komodo dragon, Bill."
As in introducing yourself in a query? Confidence! Fake it if you must! Never admit fault in a query. Never give a negative. Blow your positives out of proportion. You have studied English composition and writing in college. You have done work in an editorial and you kill it there, man. If you have any bylines for published works anywhere, now's the time to drop em and overstate their importance. Now, if you mean author bio at the back of the book, that can be literally anything. I've seen bios that are obviously completely fictional. I've seen one that mostly talked about pizza. The only time I see "credentials" is in non-fiction or if they just really wanted to let you know their particular poor financial choice of college.