Comments on: Put Your Best Photo Forward http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/put-your-best-photo-forward/ Raise a glass to the lost arts of reading, writing, and drinking. Thu, 23 May 2013 19:31:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: dave http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/put-your-best-photo-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-24405 dave Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:49:59 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=3618#comment-24405 I've worked hard to make my facial hair less angular. I’ve worked hard to make my facial hair less angular.

]]> By: Tommy http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/put-your-best-photo-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-24399 Tommy Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:29:52 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=3618#comment-24399 Facial hair looks about the same, though not as angular. Facial hair looks about the same, though not as angular.

]]> By: Tommy http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/put-your-best-photo-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-24398 Tommy Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:27:49 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=3618#comment-24398 You talkin' about that Ultimate Glory, piece? Damn, you Ultimate Frisbee players are all stoners! You talkin’ about that Ultimate Glory, piece? Damn, you Ultimate Frisbee players are all stoners!

]]> By: john lane http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/put-your-best-photo-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-24372 john lane Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:22:34 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=3618#comment-24372 Oh, this is all good stuff! Do you remember that funny NYTimes piece years ago on author photos? The commentary divided them into four categories: props, attitude, hands, and hair. Your photo is definitely attitude, though the mountains make for a good prop, and you have some pretty good hair. I have tried very hard to avoid hands, and I often appear with a hat (prop). I also try to keep my author photo up to date. Both Freud and Jung could have fun with this subject! JL PS we both know no serious/realistic author photo of either of us could past muster with out dangling reading glasses. Oh, this is all good stuff! Do you remember that funny NYTimes piece years ago on author photos? The commentary divided them into four categories: props, attitude, hands, and hair. Your photo is definitely attitude, though the mountains make for a good prop, and you have some pretty good hair. I have tried very hard to avoid hands, and I often appear with a hat (prop). I also try to keep my author photo up to date. Both Freud and Jung could have fun with this subject! JL

PS we both know no serious/realistic author photo of either of us could past muster with out dangling reading glasses.

]]> By: Nina http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/put-your-best-photo-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-24368 Nina Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:10:35 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=3618#comment-24368 David! It stands for Where's my fucking coffee? But never mind. I think you look plenty handsome in your fifty-year-old grumpy photo, even if you don't have a head for acronyms. David! It stands for Where’s my fucking coffee? But never mind. I think you look plenty handsome in your fifty-year-old grumpy photo, even if you don’t have a head for acronyms.

]]> By: dave http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/put-your-best-photo-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-24363 dave Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:07:38 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=3618#comment-24363 Does that stand for Wipe My Face Clean? Does that stand for Wipe My Face Clean?

]]> By: monica wood http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/put-your-best-photo-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-24362 monica wood Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:54:49 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=3618#comment-24362 WMFC??? New online acronym; love it. When I visited my publisher for the last book, I had a jacket photo that my husband had taken about a week before publication. It was fine; it looked like me standing on my porch, with makeup but no wind machine; no big-sky mountain-peaks background (David Gessner), no hunting dog by my side (Richard Ford), no Marion-Ettlinger specialty, with authors in b&w appearing to be trying to twist off their own heads (Ann Patchett, for Bel Canto). And so, I get to the venerated offices high above Times Square, and everyone--from the receptionist to the assistant ed to the sales guy, exclaimed in OPEN-MOUTHED DISBELIEF: "You look just like your jacket photo!" And I'm thinkin': Since the expectation is to LOOK NOTHING LIKE YOUR JACKET PHOTO, I should use a 25-yr-old stand-in next time, especially since the in-person book tour is dead. WMFC??? New online acronym; love it. When I visited my publisher for the last book, I had a jacket photo that my husband had taken about a week before publication. It was fine; it looked like me standing on my porch, with makeup but no wind machine; no big-sky mountain-peaks background (David Gessner), no hunting dog by my side (Richard Ford), no Marion-Ettlinger specialty, with authors in b&w appearing to be trying to twist off their own heads (Ann Patchett, for Bel Canto). And so, I get to the venerated offices high above Times Square, and everyone–from the receptionist to the assistant ed to the sales guy, exclaimed in OPEN-MOUTHED DISBELIEF: “You look just like your jacket photo!”
And I’m thinkin’: Since the expectation is to LOOK NOTHING LIKE YOUR JACKET PHOTO, I should use a 25-yr-old stand-in next time, especially since the in-person book tour is dead.

]]> By: Bill http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/put-your-best-photo-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-24361 Bill Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:00:23 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=3618#comment-24361 We still read "Cousin Ruth's Tooth" a lot of nights around here! You're younger than you think, Amy... We still read “Cousin Ruth’s Tooth” a lot of nights around here! You’re younger than you think, Amy…

]]> By: Amy MacDonald http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/put-your-best-photo-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-24360 Amy MacDonald Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:42:00 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=3618#comment-24360 I decided to update my author photos when a child at a school where I was presenting (I write children's books) announced in a loud voice, "You're older than I thought!" I decided to update my author photos when a child at a school where I was presenting (I write children’s books) announced in a loud voice, “You’re older than I thought!”

]]> By: Rachel http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/put-your-best-photo-forward/comment-page-1/#comment-24357 Rachel Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:01:09 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=3618#comment-24357 always ask the important questions....like, "Where's my fucking coffee?!" always ask the important questions….like, “Where’s my fucking coffee?!”

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