a meme for writers

[adelaidesean]

What was the very first bio you ever had published?

Mine was:

"Sean Williams lives in Adelaide and Play [sic] Radio is his first short story to appear in print. He is the son of a priest and says he's an atheist and non-practising witch. Apart from hoping to one day write professionally, Sean is also studying part time for his BA in music, and has also won the SA 1984 Young Composer Award. He is currently working on a novel about the music scene in Adelaide."

(The Esoteric Order of Dagon (EOD) Magazine, May 1991)

Things have changed just a tad since then.

Post links if you put up your own. I'm curious.

Comments

[maelorin]

i can't find any of the bios that have gone with publications of mine.

but then mine have mostly been tedious academic works, or reviews of the same.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Sad record-keeper that I am, I have an ever-expanding file on my computer in which I've kept every bio I've written since around 1994. Mainly because, every time I need one, I go to that file, copy the latest one and tinker with it until it's right, and so on. The file is up to around 18,000 words now, which is a LOT of 100-word bios...

[maelorin]

lol! i make up new stuff each time. depending on who i think i'm supposed to impress :p

i'm equally ... predictable ... but i keep filing the archive discs irregularly O.o

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it's hard to tell who we're trying to impress: the editors, the readers, or ourselves.

I found bios for a couple of my minor pseudonyms while digging around in that file. Here's one:

"Ed Story was born in Cleve, SA, and raised in Adelaide; he studied Civil Engineering in Perth and now lives in Darwin. Thirty-three years old and happily married (to Liz) with two young children (Luke and Sarah-Jane), he has been writing on and off for eight years."

What a fanboy! For the record, he also had a dog called Darth.

[maelorin]

lol.

as i read this, this old tv tune came to mind: "travelling[sic] round the countryside, ask the leyland brothers!" :p

at least the fandom was subtle(ish). no mention of coruscant, tatooine or gallifrey.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

"travelling[sic] round the countryside, ask the leyland brothers!"

Now I have it in my mind too. Argh!

:-)

[maelorin]

Travel all over the countryside
Ask the Leylands, ask the Leylands
Travel all over the countryside
Ask the Leyland brothers.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Argh! What a terrible thing to be reminded of, first thing in the morning!

[millisynth.livejournal.com]

It beats Alby Mangles "We're going north on a northern safari..."

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

Luckily that's a song I've never heard. Wrong generation. :-)