Ten ways to take a bad author photo. I have to deal with a lot of these in my work. Why do people think that their writing should be accompanied by them stradling their beloved new motorcycle? As a rule, if you’re skilled with the written word then you won’t look good in head-to-toe leather.

And no, a 9KB BMP is not big enough. And thank you for suggesting I resize it in Photoshop but unfortumately the Universe doesn’t work like that.