Bio Module: Your life, your story & Video 1

Bio definition and outcome

Bio is short for biography, and in this course, we mean the short summary of your life and background that accompanies your pitch or book description. In this short module, you’ll choose the most relevant parts of your story and experience to include, and write a bio that matches the tone of your book. You’ll also consider whether some elements of your bio are a selling point, especially for non-fiction books.

One person, three bios…

Kate Harrison is the bestselling author of the 5:2 Diet Book series and The Dirty Diet: Ditch the Guilt, Love your Food. A former BBC reporter, and reformed yoyo dieter, Kate set up a pioneering Facebook group which now has over 60,000 members seeking advice on staying a healthy weight for good. Kate still fasts every Monday and hosts the health and food podcast, Live Happy, Eat Dirty.

Kate Helm was born in Lancashire, and worked as a journalist covering courts and crime, before becoming a BBC reporter and producer in news and current affairs. She also wrote documentary and drama scripts, including the BBC1 programme: Angel of Death: The Story of Beverly Allitt.The Secrets You Hide is her debut crime novel.

Kate Harrison was born in Wigan but went to a dozen different schools in England, Scotland and Holland. That very hands-on research led directly to Old School Ties, her first comic novel, which was published in 2003 and selected for WH Smith Fresh Talent. Since then she’s written seven more women’s fiction novels, including The Secret Shopper’s Revenge, which was shortlisted for the Melissa Nathan award for comedy romance in 2009.

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