AUTHOR PHOTOS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS? Pt.3

 

 

Demonstrate how a book works?

 

You can hold it, turn pages, but a book works in other ways.

 

They hold doors open, shine light, give hope.

 

An author thinks they’ve done one thing, but a reader takes it another way, which is the magic of book. We get to make our own interpretations.

 

Keep things clean with a look of innocence?

 

As long as a woman writer channels her inner Madonna, keep going. Just don’t date Dennis Rodman.

 

If you’re worth it, flaunt it?

 

Why not put your best foot forward, or your best neck ware? Make sure you put your best book forward, too.

 

Remember: You need their votes this year?

 

If you write one of the best speeches in the history of the written word you’ve got my vote.

 

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863

 

The trade off for an author might be books for looks. The better the book, the worse you’ll look.

 

Jim Harrison made the deal.

 

 

So did Harry Crews.

 

 

From the acclaimed author of such novels as “Blood and Grits” and “Childhood” comes a wildly weird and breathtakingly original visit to the rural South that reveals the exotic subculture that erupts in all its glory at the Rattlesnake Roundup in Mystic, Georgia. “No number of adjectives in the thesaurus can do full justice to the dazzlingly bizarre nature of Crews’ creations”– “Washington Post Book World”

 

If an author lives in the world they create, they start looking like that world?

 

Take a look in the author mirror and decide which world is right for you.

 

Part One

 

Part Two