She hears the heels of the dripping ghosts that ride the rough roof-beam

[sovay]

I have never been good at writing bios. My very earliest ones were dreadful. I don't think I stopped using the line about addiction to folklore and dead languages until 2010. Eventually I weeded out the awkward bits; I found a formula that worked and I stuck with it. Aqueduct Press did not want a formulaic bio from me. On being asked to provide a "chatty bio," I froze and wrote absolutely nothing usable until four in the morning a few nights ago, at the end of a lengthy e-mail chain, when my brain decided it was too tired to care.

Sonya Taaffe never knows what to say about herself when asked for a bio.

Additionally, Ghost Signs is now listed under Forthcoming Publications.

This is good writing news.

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[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Getting writers to write is the hardest part of my job, and that goes double for getting them to write bios (is that a plural?).

[sovay]

Getting writers to write is the hardest part of my job, and that goes double for getting them to write bios (is that a plural?).

It doesn't look like it should be!

(What is your job? I'm not sure I've ever really had an idea. Your journal indicates mostly travel and photography.)

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

I design and maintain websites. A number of my clients are writers - oh, well, nineweaving and desperance f'example.