Tayari's Blog: Just a Helpful Hint

Posted by TayariJones on April 10, 2008 04:26 PM
Filed under Community Service

This is a message to the New York writers. This is written from a place of love. Please don't take it as an insult.

YOU NEED A NEW AUTHOR PHOTO. This is a kind and encouraging blog, so I won't call any names. So, to those of you are using a cell-phone self-portrait: people can tell. To the people using a picture that you took way back in high school, you need to upgrade. Check out Rachel Eliza Griffiths' pictures. She will make you gorgeous. Go over the auction. Bid. You owe it to yourself. And it's for a good cause.

And here's the good news. Unpublished writers out there: you're working hard. You're sending your stuff out. (Maybe you have already bid on Erika's cool reference books?) Good things are going to happen. And when they do, you're going to need a photo. And a cell-phone self-portrait just won't do.

And not to be all up in y'all's personal business.... You could probably use a more flattering picture for myspace, yahoo personals, blackpeoplemeet.com, match.com, etc... I'm just saying

Bid.

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