Stuff happens. You know, freaky stuff. Stuff you didn\u2019t expect.<\/p>\n
The other day, I was browsing the interweb, as you do, looking at nothing in particular, if you can count naked ladies as nothing in particular, when I came across (meaning I found \u2013 nothing sexually unseemly) a page of thumbnails of some of the photos of a set by the website Stunners.com of glamour model (okay, porn star) Lexi Belle.<\/p>\n
And the weirdest thing happened.<\/p>\n
No, not that. Get your minds out of the gutter. What happened was that several of those photos \u2013 the head shots, in fact –\u00a0 hit me like a sledgehammer because they were almost exactly the image I\u2019ve been carrying around in my head of the heroine of my latest WIP, Eternally & Evermore.<\/p>\n
I swear, it was incredible. There was these stunning photos of an already beautiful young woman, made up and styled to be very, very glamorous and all I could think of was how much she looked like Amy looked to me as I wrote about her.<\/p>\n
Okay, so Lexi has hazel eyes and Amy has blue and Lexi has dark roots while Amy is a natural blonde, but those things aside, it WAS Amy staring out of the screen at me with a sexy, smouldering look.<\/p>\n
And I knew. I knew I had to have her on the cover of the book. I know, I know, I\u2019m getting ahead of myself because the book isn\u2019t even finished yet, so downloading that photo and turning it into a cover (compete with a change of eye colour) was not the most productive use of my time, but it made me feel good.<\/p>\n
Now, as good as I think this cover looks, I know I can\u2019t use it. The photo is almost certainly copyrighted so I\u2019d have to get a release from the copyright holder, which I wouldn\u2019t have the first clue how to go about doing. But I can hold on to it while I finish the first draft and revise the subsequent drafts.<\/p>\n
On a different note. I\u2019ve had another hell of a week, which is why this is my first blog post of the week. Still, the week is over now and I can relax for the weekend. Who knows, I may even get another couple of thousand words towards the end of my WIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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