Friend and author Roni Loren did a blog post on getting sued for using pictures on her blog (Yes, it happened to her!). She gives you some ways to get pictures without getting sued:
http://www.roniloren.com/blog/2012/7/20 ... -blog.html
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- January 10th, 2013, 9:38 am
- Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
- Topic: Where Do You Get Legally Usable Blog Pictures
- Replies: 19
- Views: 27363
- January 10th, 2013, 9:36 am
- Forum: Social Media and Book Promotion
- Topic: Does Social Media Make Us Nicer?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6709
Re: Does Social Media Make Us Nicer?
I think it depends on who you are and why you use social networking in the first place. For us writers, we use it get our names out there, develop a fan base, etc. So of course, the majority of us are going to be protective of our "image" and play nice. Will that translate into being nice ...
- January 10th, 2013, 9:29 am
- Forum: Self-Publishing
- Topic: Oh, God, I think I'm going to do this...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3629
Re: Oh, God, I think I'm going to do this...
Hey Sierra! So you're going to self-pub, huh? Sounds like through the nerves you still got your head on straight about the whole thing. :D There's TONS of advice on epubbed out there in the world wide web, but based on what I've read you need to have the following: 1. A good cover (if you don't know...
- September 2nd, 2010, 10:19 am
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: A Thank You to Nathan
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3377
Re: A Thank You to Nathan
Yes--congrats! That's wonderful news! Nathan's blog is great and it's wonderful that it helped you in your journey. Best of luck with your book!
~JD
~JD
- September 2nd, 2010, 10:16 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: How do you know when to end a chapter and start a new?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10371
Re: How do you know when to end a chapter and start a new?
If you tie everything up in each chapter, where's the hook? In almost every book I've read, most chapters end on hooks--that's what makes you want to keep reading. Right? In my newest wip, each chapter ends on a hook, making you wonder what happens right after that. Is it right? Maybe, maybe not. I ...
- August 28th, 2010, 5:36 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: The Drunkard's Daughter: Started from Scratch, see p. 2
- Replies: 24
- Views: 9618
Re: The Drunkard's Daughter: Mainstream
Thanks for helping with my query! I'll do my best to help with this one. Dara McBride fears that her former son-in-law, Michael the Drunkard, knows the secret she intends to take to her grave. When, after forty years of exile, he returns to New York to reconcile with his son and daughter, she wishes...
- August 15th, 2010, 8:42 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Mortimers Dream, YA fantasy *BETTER UPDATE PG 3*
- Replies: 30
- Views: 10697
Re: Mortimers Dream, YA fantasy
Hello Rebecca! I'll give it my best shot. I didn't read your first query...thought I would shred...er, I mean help with the new one. ;-) Dear (Agent) Desmoree Shale thought life as a fashion photographer was full of excitement, but it was after waking up in the morgue and being flown to a hidden wor...
- July 22nd, 2010, 5:15 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Can you suggest good books with multiple POVs?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4006
Re: Can you suggest good books with multiple POVs?
I guess it depends what you like. I just finished Nora Roberts Three Sisters Island Trilogy and The Circle Trilogy and in all six books she jumps from 4-6 POV's. And she does it well ;-)
Good luck!
~JD
Good luck!
~JD
- July 21st, 2010, 10:36 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: QUERY - Toxic *REVISION 3*
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5902
Re: QUERY - Toxic (YA Urban Fiction)
"RAWR!!!!" "Oh, my, JD, what big teeth you have." "Don't worry, my dear. They're filed...I only tear, not rips queries completely to shreds." ;-) Hey! First things first, I wanted to say, I LOVE the premise you've got going here. I don't read a lot of YA, but I'd proba...
- July 21st, 2010, 10:14 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: The Rain Legacy- MG Fantasy
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2614
Re: The Rain Legacy- MG Fantasy
On the strictly religious continent of Arydnea, thirteen-year-old Lynette’s rule-breaking tendencies have only ever gotten her into trouble- until she eavesdrops on a plot to murder her family. I have thing with long sentences, and this one is long to me. 20 words per sentence is just about right. ...
- July 21st, 2010, 9:46 pm
- Forum: Queries
- Topic: Query- Wilson Mooney- Young Adult **Updated Query 2**
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7058
Re: Query- Wilson Mooney- Young Adult
Wilson Mooney has been in boarding schools since she was eight years old. She is conveniently pessimistic, brilliantly witty, and regrettably, after her grandfather’s untimely death, all alone in this world. This sentence doesn't really give us much character insight, and the effects of her granfat...
- July 19th, 2010, 6:06 pm
- Forum: Procrastination
- Topic: What superpower would you want?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 16872
Re: What superpower would you want?
Oh, man! That's a good one!!Heather B wrote:Being able to control objects with my mind - it would make cleaning up a breeze.
I would want to be invisible!! You don't need to read people's mind when you can hang out wherever you want and never be seen ;-)
~JD
- July 19th, 2010, 6:03 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Why is it So Hard to Tell if Our Writing is Good?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3148
Re: Why is it So Hard to Tell if Our Writing is Good?
I think a lot of people over think it. You've got the basics: the grammar, sentence structure, the plot, the arc, the character development, etc, etc (of course I'm talking novels here and not poems or anything) If you know how to do each of these things individually (understand the concepts, learn ...
- July 19th, 2010, 5:58 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: How do you celebrate finishing a book?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 15634
Re: How do you celebrate finishing a book?
I'm like this. ;-) Finished isn't really finished until the linger is gone. Then I actually don't do anything. That's pretty boring. LoLkarenbb wrote:I'd first like to know how you determine that it's finished...my book has been finished for two months and yet I can't bring myself to stop editing...
~JD
- July 2nd, 2010, 7:42 am
- Forum: Excerpts
- Topic: The Incredible Race
- Replies: 50
- Views: 22537
Re: The Incredible Race
However, after some thinking, I've decided that you are probably female because only women would take such feedback personally and not put it to good use. Trust me, I am one. We are an emotional and hard-headed bunch. What are you referring to? Are you referring to the other thread, in which I was ...