I'm really torn about this--what would you do?

[ksmith]

...because, well, the illo for this choice is from the cover of CONTACT IMMINENT. Jean Pierre Targete is the artist. I loved the painting so much I bought it. JP has done the covers for all my books so far and while some folks haven't cared for them, I've liked them.

This is, technically, a copyright violation.

Then again, it's cool to see the cover of my book in a Quizilla quiz.


SCI-FI! - Neuromancy and technical wizardy! You are
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What Kind of Novel Should I Write?
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Comments

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

Looks like "fair use" -- degraded version used as an example. A compliment both to the artist and to you. It's not like Quizilla authors are charging....

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

True, but I've been told by my editor that I can't use bits and pieces of my covers for self-promo. It either has to be the entire cover, or nothing. Then again, I've seen other authors use bits and pieces of their covers...

It gets very confusing.

In other news, I have learned from this quiz that I should be writing fantasy, skiffy, and gothics. If I make my Hero dark and broody, it's Gothics. Smart and determined, and it's skiffy. Still trying for suspense and apparently failing badly.

It's the descriptions of the heroines in that quiz that irk me, to be honest. The best I could find was 'drawn to the dark side' or whatever the exact phrase was. Everything else bordered on spunky or sex-obsessed, and neither applied. Where was the female version of 'a driven pain-in-the-ass who's a good shot'?

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

Your editor may well be right, for you may have additional restraints placed on you by whatever contract the rights were purchased under. The artist has means of enforcement against you and your publisher they wouldn't have against a random infringer, namely contract enforcement and refusing to deal with you in the future. So it may fall under "fair use" for a stranger, but not for someone who has paid, in this instance!

As for the arche/stereotypes, it's probably a mistake to spend much time analyzing a meme. Think projective. You're mining a relatively underused personality type. And now I have to go do the damn quiz!

Overanalyzing memes r us

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

And now I have to go do the damn quiz!

HAH!!

[equesgal.livejournal.com]

Ah ha! I thought that looked familiar!