An open letter
Sep. 29th, 2010 02:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stillsostrangeDear Male Authors:
Please stop trying to look brooding and stern in author photos. You don't look brooding and stern*--you look silly and affected. And sometimes constipated. And occasionally like giant douchebags. Try smiling once in a while. I bet you'd be pretty if you smiled.
*Unless you're Richard Marcinko. His glare kind of scares me a little.
Please stop trying to look brooding and stern in author photos. You don't look brooding and stern*--you look silly and affected. And sometimes constipated. And occasionally like giant douchebags. Try smiling once in a while. I bet you'd be pretty if you smiled.
*Unless you're Richard Marcinko. His glare kind of scares me a little.
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Date: 2010-09-30 04:30 am (UTC)Now that would be REALLY scary.
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Date: 2010-09-30 05:09 pm (UTC)If you listen to this advice, please make different (non-smiling) author photos for your books sold in Eastern Europe*. Because here we still believe that only the brain-damaged or silly people smile at wrong time. We look up at people that take their job (and writing and selling their books is job of writers) seriously and without goofy smile.
PS: and the time when we did not have money to buy your books is over. We are paying customers now, no need to turn your nose up at our money!
* and remember - we here once tasted what being locked away from world means, so we DO use the Western Amazon site also
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