Media Kits Authors
Media Kits Authors is the detailed profile of you and your work that will enable busy media types to create the write-up they need for articles, reviews and introductions. It will contain:
bio, with black and white photo
credits: what published where, what competitions won, awards or commissions received
interviews and reviews of your work
goals and motivations
objectives of your work or style
quotable quotes
Separate, but kept immediately on hand in a folder will be:
a fact sheet on your book: detailed contents, publisher, price, pages, themes
clips (photocopied) of reviews, interviews and feature articles
articles written on or by you
press release written for book launch
500-700 word personality profile, with photographs, that makes you into a living, interesting entity.
Media Kits Authors doesn't have to be a lavish document, but it should detailed, accurate, up to date and professional looking. It's your visiting card into good society, and is judged as such. Indeed it may be the most important thing you ever write, being used, with selection and modification, to:
accompany magazine submissions
guide interviewers and those introducing your readings
serve as flyers and local press announcements
serve as posters, suitable enlarged, at readings and book signing.
Get the document right, and ask an honest friend to look it over.