The boy’s home sick today, one of those borderline illnesses where he’s not feeling terrible, but he’s contagious too. Since today’s the last day befor Fall Break, I decided to keep him home. You’re welcome, classmates.

I’m working on bringing some maturity and professionalism to the blog. Not a lot, mind you, just enough so when editors come here they don’t shriek and click away. I think I need to re-do my “about”, including bio and contact info. I came across this post about author websites from the point of view of an unpaid intern, and it reminded me that professionals who visit my site looking for information about me as an author don’t want to wade through posts about my sinuses, nor do they want to read my sad attempts at political diatribe. They want to know about my books, my experience, how to contact me, and how to contact my agent (though if they’re here it’s probably because she contacted them first).

I thought about creating two pages, one for editors and one for regular folks, the thought being that the info relevant to a visiting professional wouldn’t be buried within the site, but visible on the front page. Under each page would be sub-pages, the editor page having the professional info–contact, book descriptions, links to relevant posts, etc–and the regular folks page having the talky traditional About Me, and all the social media contact stuff. There may be some overlap.

Another thought is to have one About Me that everyone would visit, and on that page have a link for editors to click if they want. The goal is to make it easy for everybody to find what they want.

What do you think? I haven’t seen much besides the single About Me, with a vague outline of the blogger’s interests and location. I’d be grateful for a link to examples of other types.