New Userpics, Proofs, and First Draft Finished

[pameladlloyd]

I've been uncertain where people got their userpics. So, I finally checked out LJ's Help pages, and found out there are multiple communities with said images. Plus, perusing these pages, I realize that they are often enough just fragments of Real Art(TM), so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this is considered fair use. I've created a gallery for the images I've snagged from the lecollage community, which has credits for all the artwork.

Karl and I received the proofs a few days ago to our story, "Ship's Daughter," to appear in the anthology Space Pirates, edited by David Summers. It's way cool, on the one hand, to see the story as it will appear in print, and frustrating on the other, because there are so many things we'd like to tweak, having finished the story in a rush when we were both feeling a bit under the weather. Even so, we're still happy with the story. 8)

I actually got my act together and sent "Trouble's Reasons" back out into the world to face *gulp* editors. I've been very bad about keeping my work circulating. Plus, last night I finished the first draft of a new short story, as yet unnamed. Since the sea is essential to the story, this influenced the userpic I've used for this post.

Comments

[janni.livejournal.com]

Fabulous, both about the Space Pirates draft and about "Trouble's Reasons" being back out in the mail!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on your joint story, and good luck with "Trouble's Reasons." Here's a sea dragon userpic, in your honor :-)

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It was our first collaboration. Or, at least, the first to hit print.

Cool user pic.

[untasted.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if it's always fair use (some probably isn't, I imagine), but I, for one, always got permission from the artists. So you can be sure that you don't have to worry about the icons you use from lecollage, as long as you credit the artists. (:

Sorry about the seemingly random comment, but I got a Google alert, telling me that lecollage had been mentioned, so I checked it out. (:

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's very cool to know you keep tabs on these things.

I wasn't exactly sure how to go about crediting the artists. I tried to make sure the artist's name was in the tags, plus the aforementioned gallery. Is there a standard for how one goes about such things?

[untasted.livejournal.com]

There are particular crediting codes that I give in lecollage, such as "icon from lecollage; art by Artist's Name Here," but there are plenty of ways to credit, and you seem to have done quite perfectly. I'm actually very amazed by the crediting you did in the gallery you set up. You even included links. That's very awesome of you. (:

Soaking up information

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Thanks. You had all the info on your site, so you made it easy. It's a great collection of images, btw.