Writing the book jacket biographyName____________________________Rob Melton — english9melton.blogspot.comPeriod_______Date______________
How do I start writing a book jacket biography
?
•
Start with your name and where you were born.
If youdid not grow up where you were born, tell about the otherplaces you grew up.•
Write in third person
(no “I” or “me” in the text).•
Choose three styles and write a book jacket bio
foreach style: serious, literary, humorous, youthful, poetic,silly, journalistic, or mix and match.•
Reveal
some of your life experiences, ambitions, family,cultural or religious background — something that relatesto your life interests and the kinds of things about whichyou would choose to write about were it up to you.•Finally,
tell us why you write
— what really motivatesyou to sit down and write.
Now it’s your turn. Write your own bookjacketbiography:________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
MR. MELTON’S LINER NOTES:
NameBirthplaceBackground Nice metaphor (comparison)Shows how his background influences hiswriting. Another nice metaphor Occupation/current life situation Jobs held Something noone knows about you.Quirky/funny little anecdote
Lono Waiwaiole
Lono Waiwaiole was born inSan Francisco and spent hischildhood moving up anddown the West Coast , arollercoaster ride that took himto 15 different schools by thetime he graduated from highschool in Portland, Oregon.Lono is half Hawaiian, aquarter Italian and a quartersomething his family refers toas Pennsylvania Dutch . Thistangled web has a significantimpact on the way he looks atpeople—in his life and in hiswriting.He has been teaching high-school English and socialstudies in Portland since 1989.Before that, he worked aseditor of a weekly newspaper ,associate editor of a regionalmagazine , director of publications and sportsinformation at a local college ,and as a professional pokerplayer —a career which mighthave lasted longer had hebeen a little better at it .138 words/5 compound-complex sentences
FACTOID
:Lono Waiwaiole, ateacher for many years atBenson Polytechnic H.S.in Portland, Ore., nowwrites novels. His firstnovel,
Wiley’s Lament
, isset in Portland, and waspublished by St. Martin’sPressNewYork
Leave a Comment