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| This is me when I need to come up with images for social media posts. |
So when posting to various social media like Pinterest, FaceBook, and all the others, just because someone else has posted something, doesn’t mean they got permission. So sharing something someone else posted may infringe on someone else’s copyright and could be stealing.
This is why I’ve shied away from Pinterest and sharing what others have posted on the Internet. I don’t want to accidentally infringe on someone’s copyright.
So let’s say I find the perfect image of my heroine and hero I look at while I write. If I decide to create a Pinterest board for my current work in progress, I can’t use that perfect image online. It wouldn’t be right. That image belongs to another. But I can go to a few of the free sites and find images, but I can never find quite what I’m looking for. It’s too hard and takes a lot of time.
When I can, I take pictures with my phone, like the photo at the top of this post. It’s the panel on a little drop-leaf table. I’m not a techie, so transferring and preparing my photos is a little labor intensive. But I manage. But how many posts can I write about my cats before people scream, “ENOUGH!”
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| How can you say no to this face? |
Or perhaps a few dozen pictures of flowers. I took these last year.
Since I write historical romance, I post about historical things. Which means, it’s hard for me to take pictures of everything I want write and post about, and I can’t afford to purchase all those images. I have taken pictures at museums, but unless I”m posting about the museum, they often don’t meet my needs for specific things. So where does that leave me? Draw what I need?
I have a friend who draws her own pictures for her posts. She says she’s no artist, but I can easily tell what her drawings are of. Mine would not be so easily decipherable. If I remember her process correctly, she draws a picture in pencil, scans it, prints it, traces it with a marker, colors it, and scans in the final version to use. She has a system down where she can work efficiently. I would not be able to do that. I would get stuck on step 1: drawing a picture.
“Is that a fancy umbrella or a mountain?”
“Neither. It’s a fairytale princess in her beautiful ball gown!”
When my children were young, they would ask me draw them something so they could color it. When my middle child was probably four-ish, he asked me to draw him a horse to color. I drew a horse, and I do believe it was my best horse to date. I was improving. He looked at it and said it didn’t look like a horse. (He wasn’t being malicious or mean, just stating the obvious.) I told him that was the best Mommy could do. He never asked me to draw him anything ever again. What a relief!
So if I’m limited in the number and kind of photos I can take myself to use, and I can’t use all the great images found on the Internet, and I can’t draw, what’s left for a girl to do?
I’m so grateful for royalty-free sites like Pixabay.com, Pexels.com, and FreeImages.com. I’m sure there are others, but three is enough for me right now or else I might get lost in image searches. Some of these sites ask for you to use a credit link with the image, which I’m happy to do. The artists should get credit. But some of the sites don’t ask you to give an attribution. To all those who make their images available for free through these kinds of sites, THANK YOU!
If you are wondering what images, works, and such you can legally use online, here is a great blog post on copyrights I found helpful. It’s not the final word on the matter, but it’s a concise starting point.
https://thewriteconversation.blogspot.com/2015/03/learn-what-you-can-legally-post-share.html
HAPPY POSTING!!!
NEW!
THE DAUGHTER'S PREDICAMENT (Book 2 in the Quilting Circle series )
Can a patient love win her heart?
Since I write historical romance, I post about historical things. Which means, it’s hard for me to take pictures of everything I want write and post about, and I can’t afford to purchase all those images. I have taken pictures at museums, but unless I”m posting about the museum, they often don’t meet my needs for specific things. So where does that leave me? Draw what I need?
I have a friend who draws her own pictures for her posts. She says she’s no artist, but I can easily tell what her drawings are of. Mine would not be so easily decipherable. If I remember her process correctly, she draws a picture in pencil, scans it, prints it, traces it with a marker, colors it, and scans in the final version to use. She has a system down where she can work efficiently. I would not be able to do that. I would get stuck on step 1: drawing a picture.
“Is that a fancy umbrella or a mountain?”
“Neither. It’s a fairytale princess in her beautiful ball gown!”
When my children were young, they would ask me draw them something so they could color it. When my middle child was probably four-ish, he asked me to draw him a horse to color. I drew a horse, and I do believe it was my best horse to date. I was improving. He looked at it and said it didn’t look like a horse. (He wasn’t being malicious or mean, just stating the obvious.) I told him that was the best Mommy could do. He never asked me to draw him anything ever again. What a relief!
So if I’m limited in the number and kind of photos I can take myself to use, and I can’t use all the great images found on the Internet, and I can’t draw, what’s left for a girl to do?
I’m so grateful for royalty-free sites like Pixabay.com, Pexels.com, and FreeImages.com. I’m sure there are others, but three is enough for me right now or else I might get lost in image searches. Some of these sites ask for you to use a credit link with the image, which I’m happy to do. The artists should get credit. But some of the sites don’t ask you to give an attribution. To all those who make their images available for free through these kinds of sites, THANK YOU!
If you are wondering what images, works, and such you can legally use online, here is a great blog post on copyrights I found helpful. It’s not the final word on the matter, but it’s a concise starting point.
https://thewriteconversation.blogspot.com/2015/03/learn-what-you-can-legally-post-share.html
HAPPY POSTING!!!
NEW!
THE DAUGHTER'S PREDICAMENT (Book 2 in the Quilting Circle series )
Can a patient love win her heart?
As Isabelle Atwood’s romance prospects are turning in her favor, a family scandal derails her dreams. While making a quilt for her own hope chest, Isabelle’s half-sister becomes pregnant out of wedlock and Isabelle--always the unfavored daughter--becomes the family sacrifice to save face. Despite gaining the attention of a handsome rancher, her parents are pressuring her to marry a man of their choosing to rescue her sister’s reputation. A third suitor waits silently in the wings, hoping for his own chance at love. Isabelle ends up with three marriage proposals, but this only further confuses her decision.
A handsome rancher, a stranger, and an unseen suitor are all waiting for an answer. Isabelle loves her sister, but will she really allow herself to be manipulated into a marriage without love? Will Isabelle capitulate and marry the man her parents wish her to, or will she rebel and marry the man they don’t approve of? Or will the man leaving her secret love poems sweep her off her feet?
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#HeartbeatsInTimeSet
The Widow’s Plight (Book 1 in the Quilting Circle series) by Mary Davis
A single mother steps out of the shadows of abuse and into the sunshine. But will a secret clouding her past cost her the man she loves?
Finding Love In Last Chance, California by Miralee Ferrell
Dreams of My Heart by Barbara Scott
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Seven daring damsels don’t let the norms of their eras hold them back. Along the way these women attract the attention of men who admire their bravery and determination, but will they let love grow out of the adventures?
Zola’s Cross-Country Adventure, a 1904 road-trip
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Seven daring damsels don’t let the norms of their eras hold them back. Along the way these women attract the attention of men who admire their bravery and determination, but will they let love grow out of the adventures?
Zola’s Cross-Country Adventure, a 1904 road-trip
Zola Calkin sets out on an adventure to be the first woman to drive across the country. Will the journalist tasked to report her presumed failure sabotage her efforts? Or will he steal her heart?
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Mother-to-Be’s Amish Homecoming... Pregnant and alone, Dori Bontrager is sure her Amish kin won’t welcome her—or the child she’s carrying—into the community. And she’s determined that her return won’t be permanent. As soon as she finds work, she’ll leave again. But with her childhood friend Eli Hochstetler insisting she and her baby belong here, will Dori’s path lead back to the Englisher world…or into Eli’s arms?
THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT ~ A sweet historical romance that will tug at your heart. This is book 1 in the Quilting Circle series.
Washington State, 1893
When Lily Lexington Bremmer arrives in Kamola with her young son, she’s reluctant to join the social center of her new community, the quilting circle, but the friendly ladies pull her in. She begins piecing a sunshine and shadows quilt because it mirrors her life. She has a secret that lurks in the shadows and hopes it doesn’t come out into the light. Dark places in her past are best forgotten, but her new life is full of sunshine. Will her secrets cast shadows on her bright future?
Widower Edric Hammond and his father are doing their best to raise his two young daughters. He meets Lily and her son when they arrive in town and helps her find a job and a place to live. Lily resists Edric’s charms at first but finds herself falling in love with this kind, gentle man and his two darling daughters. Lily has stolen his heart with her first warm smile, but he’s cautious about bringing another woman into his girls’ lives due to the harshness of their own mother.
Can Edric forgive Lily her past to take hold of a promising chance at love?
THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT is now available in ebook and paperback.
#ChristianRomance #HistoricalRomance #Romance
Washington State, 1893
When Lily Lexington Bremmer arrives in Kamola with her young son, she’s reluctant to join the social center of her new community, the quilting circle, but the friendly ladies pull her in. She begins piecing a sunshine and shadows quilt because it mirrors her life. She has a secret that lurks in the shadows and hopes it doesn’t come out into the light. Dark places in her past are best forgotten, but her new life is full of sunshine. Will her secrets cast shadows on her bright future?
Widower Edric Hammond and his father are doing their best to raise his two young daughters. He meets Lily and her son when they arrive in town and helps her find a job and a place to live. Lily resists Edric’s charms at first but finds herself falling in love with this kind, gentle man and his two darling daughters. Lily has stolen his heart with her first warm smile, but he’s cautious about bringing another woman into his girls’ lives due to the harshness of their own mother.
Can Edric forgive Lily her past to take hold of a promising chance at love?
THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT is now available in ebook and paperback.
#ChristianRomance #HistoricalRomance #Romance
MARY DAVIS s a bestselling, award-winning novelist of over two dozen titles in both historical and contemporary themes. Her 2018 titles include; "Holly and Ivy" in A Bouquet of Brides Collection (January), Courting Her Amish Heart (March), The Widow’s Plight (July), Courting Her Secret Heart (September), “Zola’s Cross-Country Adventure” in The MISSAdventure Brides Collection (December), and Courting Her Prodigal Heart (January 2019). Coming in 2019, The Daughter's Predicament (May) and "Bygones" in Thimbles and Threads (July). She is a member of ACFW and active in critique groups.
Mary lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband of over thirty-four years and two cats. She has three adult children and two incredibly adorable grandchildren. Find her online at:
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