These quick tips for writing a long or short author bio for magazine articles, book contributions, or book proposals are at the tweeted request of a fellow writer. I love getting requests – please feel free to ask me questions about writing!
As synchronicity would have it, a different author emailed me the very same day and asked [...]

Here’s an explanation of various types of copyright for freelance writers and book authors, including definitions of first serial rights, reprint rights, one time rights, all rights, electronic rights, subsidiary rights, and dramatic, TV, and motion picture rights.
But first, a quip about writing:
“Most beginning writers (and I was the same) are like chefs trying to cook [...]