Coming Out From Behind My Cuppa

Some people just ooze talent. People like the amazing Sonya Sones. Not only does this amazing author of novels-in-verse capture teens with her extraordinary storytelling, but she captures people in photographs like no other. You can see some of her favorites HERE.

I've visited other author's websites and noticed their great photos, and often underneath I've seen, "Photo by Sonya Sones." And every time I've seen such a photo, I've always thought, Oh how I'd love to have Sonya take my photo.

Guess what?

She did. *squeeee*

She sent them to me last night.

Getting these special Sonya photos, paired with something learned at the conference, I'm thinking it's time to come out from behind my big white mug. What do you think?

During the conference, Team Blog's very own leader, the lovely Alice Pope, presented a session called Moving Your Career Forward with Social Networking and Blogging with social media guru, Greg Pincus. Now, while I was unable to attend that session, I did follow the tweets and read the blog post, and one point they made stood out to me. Here's the hot tip link. They mentioned how many people at the conference recognized them from their photos (featured on their blogs, Facebook, and Twitter) and said it's good to use the same photo across all platforms.

Of course this got me thinking. Because who could ever recognize me, unless I walked around with a big white mug in front of my face? (Although it has been fun when people have recognized the name Jolie and then asked, "Hey, are you Cuppa?" That gets me every time.)

So, you tell me. Time to change my photo to one of these by the fab Sonya Sones? And if yes, then which photo?

Photo #1

Photo by Sonya Sones

 

Photo #2

Photo by Sonya Sones

Photo #3

Photo by Sonya Sones

 

Photo #4

Photo by Sonya Sones

Photo #5

Photo by Sonya Sones

I also wanted to mention that those people who signed up for the Pro Track during the summer conference were also photographed by Sonya (that alone is worth the extra cost). Just one more reason to keep dropping those coins into your SCBWI 2011 jar. Anyone get their photo taken as part of the Pro Track during the conference? I would love to hear about it.