Pictures for biography book
Biography book report.
10 steps to choosing the perfect images for your memoir or family history
Susan Hood
In the midst of planning a book project, you might find yourself daydreaming about what the end result will look like (especially when you’re tired of writing and need a pick-me-up!).
There’s a special kind of pleasure in imagining how your favorite photographs will illustrate the text and the cover.
Pictures for biography book
For a family history, you might be thinking of the prized sepia-toned studio shots of stiffly posed great-grandparents, and, for a memoir, the beloved baby pictures and weirdly colored Polaroids from the ’80s.
But before you tear that stack of albums apart, let’s pause for a moment and consider why you’re choosing the photos you’re choosing.
And then we’ll show you a system for streamlining the process.
It’s not difficult, but it is a little counterintuitive. Because in order to work efficiently, you need to start with the book’s manuscript, not those plastic-coated pages you’ve been dying to tea