Writers Places on the Internet

Writers Places on the Internet, like Goodreads, are nice places, but not nice places to promote your book. I am the same as the rest of them, so I'm not complaining. I'm on there, and like everyone else, I hope people buy and/or read my book. But the thing about places like Goodreads or AuthorsDen, or writers blogs, and the like, is that everyone is a writer, and no one is a reader. That is to say, everyone has a book or books that they wrote, and their priority is to promote their books, not read other people's books.

So who is reading the books? Not writers. At least not those writers. I've a lot to learn still when it comes to promoting a book. You don't promote your book on a writer's site. That's one thing I learned.Unfortuately, I don't know many readers. Just writers, it seems. Hopefully, the publishers know more readers than I do. They should, anyway. Heck, they better. If they know as many as two readers, than that's more readers than I know!

Most Online Images are 96 ppi

As I surfed the internet for images I might want to use for a book cover, I discovered that the images are in the 96 ppi mode. I guess the people who post them do that on purpose. In that mode they are OK for use as computer wallpaper and websites, but to print them out for something like a book cover they are not. For that, I've learned, you need them to be at 300 ppi.

I'm glad that it's not my job to make a book cover. Because my paintings that I've photographed and saved on my computer aren't even 96 ppi. They're 76 ppi. So that means unless there is some way to make them 300 ppi, not even my own artwork would do.

I've got to believe there is a way to make them 300 ppi. I just don't know what it is. Probably some computer geek would know. Yep, I've still a lot to learn.

Added to Website

Worked on my website today. Got some more of my artwork on there. I figure if my main job is being an artist and art teacher, might as well focus on that. Got paintings, drawings, and sculptures on there now. Even a self-portrait. Now before you start thinking anything, I just want you to know it was required in Mr. Stewart's class. Every "Final Exam" in his class was a self portrait. So that's me way back when.

Did one of my wife, too, later, but it got knocked over during a party, and it wasn't covered in glass yet because I had just finished it. The chalk smudged all over. Felt real bad. If you're an artist, you know what I mean. For those of you who are writers, think of it this way: You just finished, say, a short story, but then your computer crashed and you didn't back it up. No, that's not really a good analogy. But it's close. It's not like you lost a whole novel. Now that would be a disaster. Hope that never happened to anyone.

The statues were fun. I was supposed to sell them to Paramount, but after they approved the quality, it turned out they already sold the copyright. Maybe I can sell them to whoever owns the copyright.

My Website

Put a link to my website yesterday. If you ever wondered who I really am, this is where you find out. Still putting up my artwork though. Only got a few on there now. But the link to it features a portrait I drew of my favorite rock band, Black Sabbath. Drew it years ago, when I was in high school. It's weird, really. I drew that picture before I learned how to draw. I posted about my college experience already.

Got a lot more of my students' work in there. They're only Sixth Graders. My Eighth Graders are in my sculpture class. Don't have any photos of those yet. Hope to soon.