Tayari's Blog: My How We've Grown

Posted by TayariJones on August 29, 2007 10:26 PM
Filed under The Writing Life

I ran across this digital copy of my first author photo. I took this picture in the year 1999 after I got word that A) my book would be published and B)my publisher would not pay for a photo. (At this stage in my life, I had never even heard of Marion Ettlinger!)I didn't know what to do. A girlfriend said her boyfriend was a professoinal photographer and he lived in New Mexico. I was living in Arizona and I figure that a trip to the next-door state seemed reasonable.

The trip was 8 hours by car and New Mexico was a much higher altitude and it was COLD. Furthermore, New Mexico has a pretty significant tourist trade, so the only room we would afford was located the east side of Espanola-- the black tar herion capitol of the nation.

The boyfriend showed up and took this photo of me against the wall of a Super 8 hotel. I felt fortunate that it came out as well as it did.

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