from the archives...23 September, 2009
Zoom in or out...color or black and white...head shot or artsy...smile or look of "mystery''? So many options when choosing that perfect photo that is you, awesome writer. Yes, the very same photo to grace the back cover of every copy of your best-selling novel.
Okay, so yet another exaggeration but what I still call "positive thinking".
Truthfully, I hate taking pictures. Of other people, yes, they're fun. Of myself, well, like every woman, I can find something wrong with them all. And no, I did not actually go for a 'look of mystery', did not tip a fedora over my brow or pout Marilyn Monroe like at the camera. But I have pondered these pictures for two weeks, and can delay no longer. Now I'm at the point where I crop mere slivers from an edge and tint the color ever so slightly, and am inundated with copy upon copy of each of three simple shots, me the only one able to tell the differences. So I chose. Not by that childhood eenie meenie process of elimination, but close. More like, alright already, this'll do. First one to flash on screen.
And hopefully it passes. After all of the opinions from friends and family, which was helpful but I think the vote is still out--everyone is split between all of the same ones I am. So much for diplomatic methods. Being that I always overthink things--everything--I need to remind myself that I am self publishing. Who has the final say but 'me'? So the results are out, file sent to the publisher.
I compromised with artsy and didn't look at the camera...went somewhere between black and white and color... and zoom in? Well, sort of. Really, I could fret another two weeks and come out looking like Greta Garbo meets Minnie Mouse.
Shoulda just sent one of Indiana Jones. He wears a mean fedora.
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