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My author questionnaire and author photo for 1616: The World in Motion<\/a><\/em> are due this week to Counterpoint Press<\/a>. My daughter Ellen, who is a brilliant photographer, among other things, took this photo from the roof of her apartment overlooking Lake Merritt in Oakland. It was raining lightly at the time, and later that day ice would fall from the sky<\/a>.<\/p>\n In Tom’s Glossary of Book Publishing Terms<\/a> the author photo is defined as “Pictorial fiction. Authors always choose photos that emphasize that quality in which they feel most deficient.” So what does this say about me? I dunno — but I will say, as a guy who has been cutting his own hair for years, that I don’t think the hair looks too bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My author questionnaire and author photo for 1616: The World in Motion<\/a><\/em> are due this week to Counterpoint Press<\/a>. My daughter Ellen, who is a brilliant photographer, among other things, took this photo from the roof of her apartment overlooking Lake Merritt in Oakland. It was raining lightly at the time, and later that day ice would fall from the sky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n