Help Me Pick My Author Photo

Whilst wrapping up 11 solid hours of final copyediting today (and I’m still not done!), I received an email from the great and gloriously talented Amy Howe. Amy is a photographer from Dallas, TX, and she did the photo shoot for my author photos last week. After ridiculously strong winds and many laughs (partially thanks to Kallie Matthews of Twilight Series Theories), here are the results:

CLICK TO SEE LARGER. The photos on the right are exactly the same as those on the left, but B&W.

One of these photos will appear in the book as my author photo, and will be used in all promotion for the book. Which photo do you think would work best as an author photo? Tell me in the comments!

Speaking of author photos, here are some of my favorites from other writers:

Kaleb Nation Headshot (Hollywood Towers Sunset Blvd)

Kaleb Nation is an author, TV personality, and digital media entrepreneur. With two decades of experience in all aspects of digital content production, Kaleb is a nationally-recognized expert on Internet culture and viral marketing.

He has been featured by CNN, HLN, NPR, ABC, MTV, TLC, Mashable, Entertainment Weekly, and Good Morning America. His videos and websites have been viewed over 150,000,000 times.

Kaleb is Executive Producer of Ask Dr. Drew, the flagship live streaming show hosted by Dr. Drew Pinsky. From 2009-2013, he published multiple fiction books for young readers: The Farfield Curse (Sourcebooks / Scholastic), its sequel The Specter Key (Sourcebooks / Scholastic), and standalone novel Harken (Amazon).