I cannot recall a single instance of my showing any interest in an author's biography, only in the stories they wrote. Jules Verne, Agatha Christie, Isaac Azimov, Joe Heller, to name a few. I admire the stories they penned. Their biographies are irrelevant. Why would a reader care about birth dates, residency, marital status, number of kids, etc. is beyond my ability to comprehend. I asked ChatGPT and the bot said that biographies might help with marketing and enhance interpretation but were not strictly a must. I value the opinions of robots and other mechanisms, so for the time being I opted out. I write books which some members of the reading public will label "naughty" with a wink, and others will find deranging. Is it not plausible then that there may be people around me, who would feel uncomfortable by the association and disrespected if I ignore such sentiments and start parading my abridged life story to the world? Or the individual behind the fruit mask may be disappointing, not what one would expect from the creator of such books. Will that person not turn potential readers off? I honestly fear this possibility. Reading fiction is about dreaming, it will be unreasonable to spoil the experience with mundane stuff. Still, I do not want to appear entirely aloof, so I will be offering glimpses into my persona here: https://nekkobooks.com/diaries.php?pf=Lowell%20Nekko.