New biography

I usually try and update this blog on a Sunday (Harry does his on Saturday), but yesterday I was at a marketing workshop and didn’t get the chance. However, as a result of the workshop I’ve been rethinking the writer’s biography that I put up on websites like Goodreads (and which goes into the back of my books). I usually put up stuff about which books I’ve written and what prizes they’ve won or been shortlisted for. Not any more! That stuff is still important for some occasions, but at the workshop we were encouraged to come up with biogs that tied in to the books we were writing in some way.

Hmm, I thought. I’m writing an adventure fantasy. So I probably need to have an adventurous biog. It all has to be true, of course, but that’s not a problem. I have led a pretty interesting life.

Here’s what I came up with. Let me know what you think:

Lian Tanner has been dynamited while scuba diving and arrested while busking. She once spent a week in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, hunting for a Japanese soldier left over from the Second World War. She likes secrets, old bones, and animals that are not what they seem. She has always been contrary. Nowadays she lives by the beach in southern Tasmania with her cat, Harry-le-beau, who has his own blog at vampiremice.wordpress.com.

Much more interesting than a boring list of books, yes?

And speaking of Harry, he put up his second post two days ago. You can read it here. And yes, he’s pleased with himself.