Dancing Elephants Press Book Project

Guidelines for the Participants of the Dancing Elephants Press Book Project — 1

How to format your author bio for the book

Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles

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Dancing Elephants Press

3 min readFeb 7, 2022

Photo by Gabrielle Henderson on Unsplash

A big warm welcome to all the chosen authors for the Dancing Elephants Press Book Project.

Did I say “AUTHORS”? Yes, I did! Because that’s what you are! ❤

Dancing Elephants Press Book Project First group:

Jennifer Dunne, Gaurav Jain, Bingz Huang, Libby Shively McAvoy, Monoreena Acharjee Majumdar, Trista Signe Ainsworth, Yana Bostongirl, Jo An Fox-Wright Maddox, Tamil, Carmen Micsa

Dancing Elephants Press Book Project Second group:

Natalie Gasper, Rane Kelze, Sally Prag, Dr. Preeti Singh, Art Bram, Purbita Chakraborty, Umme Salma, Pene Hodge, Lola Rosario, Anjali Joshi

As you rejoice over being selected for the twin book project and are probably busy sharpening your pencils and refilling your pens to get ready to write for the first prompt that will be announced tomorrow, let me be the voice of reason and release the first guideline.

The goal is to keep the book uniformly formatted so that it not only looks nice but makes it easy for the reader. Also, you’ll not miss out on anything — which means no back and forth messages with the editors nagging you to add this or remove that.

Nice, no?

Okay. Here’s the first guideline.

1. Write your author bio

We’ll need a few lines about yourself with a high-resolution photo of you, preferably a headshot.

How to format your author bio for the book.

Write in the third person, please.
- Who you are (name)
- What you do (profession)
- Add something personal/special about you
- An achievement or two (if you’ve published a book, mention that with a link)
- Your social media handles and website link, if any.

For example, my bio looks something like this:

Vidya Sury is living her dream as a Writer | Editor | Blogger after more than a decade in the corporate world. With six blogs of her own, she enjoys writing about self-improvement, mindfulness, parenting, travel, health and wellness, diabetes, food, and books.
She loves coffee, photography, kids, and music. On really busy days, her free time is restricted to playing with her dust bunnies and showing her diabetes who’s boss.
Her mission in life is to improve the lives of underprivileged children.
Connect with her on Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn | Pinterest | Twitter | Amazon | Goodreads
Visit her website: Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles ❤ Did you smile today?

Feel free to be creative — and make it no longer than 6–8 lines.

2. Add your author bio to the posts you submit for the book

This will help others to get to know you. And of course, feel free to use this bio everywhere!

Your biography will go with your posts in the book. We will also use it to promote the book by featuring an author each month on social media.

Have questions? Please feel free to email us and we’ll be happy to respond.

See this post where we announced the participants of the book project along with what you need to do right away: I’d urge you to bookmark it and take action.