THIS IS WHAT A WRITER LOOKS LIKE

It's official - this is what a writer looks like. I realise that it's a photograph of "Queen of Folk" Joan Baez but I just got back from the London Book Fair where writers pitch to publishers and about 80 percent of the authors looked exactly like her. Why should this be? Does the Baez look somehow facilitate the writing process?

They're everywhere. Her. And her. Definitely her.

Incidentally the best thing I overheard was at the (depressingly huge) Mills and Boon stand where a woman was loudly explaining: "What makes it romantic is that she doesn't know if he's going save her... OR KILL HER!"