An author bio should answer the question of why someone should trust the author on a particular subject. Most of the time, bios tend to be highly decorative. The bio on the back of a gardening book should not resemble a bio in a program for a conference.
We write many lengths simultaneously from the same set of facts, so the fifty-word version is not a shorter version of a longer one. Each is adapted for its context and the existing knowledge of the audience.
Bios can feel insincere when there are no relevant credentials. Listing unrelated achievements and leaving the relevant ones out is a sure sign of a resume. Trust is earned by selecting only what builds and grows the title. It is best to stop there before it looks like you’re trying to check all the credentialing boxes.
Two issues occur here and they are both serious. Bios created by generators include fabricated credentials that add a legitimate touch to a created affiliation or award. Both end with the same generic sentence on the author’s location and the pet they have. One of these will get you in actual trouble and one makes you like everyone else.
We ask for a lot, but take next to nothing. You send your entire career, your awards, odd jobs, and lots of personal info and the writer chooses the four or five facts that make the reader think this book is worth telling. The rest is filed for next time when a different selection will probably apply.
The process verifies. For job titles, we double check the language you’ve used against the titles. Each of your institutional names is verified against their current forms. Any statement that can be interpreted as a formal qualification is verified with you in writing. The misstatement of a credential in a bio will follow an author for a long time.
One rate, whatever the format: $10 per 100 words. You are paying for the writer’s time and judgement, so the price scales with the words rather than with a package tier.
| Typical author biography | Words | Writing | Fee (1%) | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short bio | 100 | $10 | $0.10 | $10.10 |
| Standard bio | 250 | $25 | $0.25 | $25.25 |
| Long bio | 500 | $50 | $0.50 | $50.50 |
The writer receives 100% of the writing price. Our 1% fee is added on top of it, and 0.5% is donated to tree planting. Full pricing breakdown.
Yes. Send two or three pieces you like the sound of, or your style guide. Matching an established voice is ordinary work for a writer and close to impossible for a model that has never read your back catalogue.
Yes. Tell us the volume and cadence and we keep the same writer on the account so the voice stays consistent. The rate does not change with volume.
We verify as much as we can against what you provide, and the rest gets queried as opposed to being published. Biographies are published later in the press which subsequently follows you. Thus, we prefer to ask the awkward question rather than publish an unsupported claim.
There is always a reason to trust this person on this subject. In practice, this translates to a new publication, a new appointment, or a major accolade. Small changes usually come in under 100 words, which is our minimum order, so most of these updates cost around ten dollars.
Completely. Copyright transfers to you on delivery, with no attribution requirement and no licence back to us. Nothing written for you is resold, repurposed or republished.
Reviews from completed, paid orders in this category.
My novel took four years, and the back cover took three sentences and had me stumped for six weeks. The writer must have read the full manuscript (instead of the synopsis) which I know because the copy references a scene from chapter fourteen.
Chapter seven got me stuck for almost a year, and the suggested structure finally helped. Great outline, but the email with it was a two-sentence filler. I had to ask for a paragraph explaining the order of the chapters.
I had managed to write around 40 thousand words. Unfortunately those words didn’t provide any structure. When I received the feedback on this, it contained a merged chapter, one chapter completely removed (along with an explanation as to why) and the additional feedback stated that the chapter that had been removed was essentially doing the work of three chapters which I had already written. It was a bit painful to read, but correct.
We do not ask you to take the no-AI promise on trust. Each draft is run through these platforms and the reports are attached to your delivery email.
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$10 per 100 words · all of it to the writer · 0.5% to trees