The lack of pictures for Lake Belle is a problem. One coworker suggested I take images from google, but that wouldn’t work even if I were inclined to do it. Sure, in a novel people don’t expect pictures, but lake belle isn’t a book-it’s a blog. And on blog people post pictures and join my space or face book or whatever…

And I can’t draw well enough to illustrate it. So…any artists out there want an unpaid gig? Thought not.

A few weeks ago I saw this young woman shopping and I thought–Mercie! A bolder person might have asked to take her picture, but what should I have said? “Hey, want to be a fictional character?” Hell, I can’t even find anybody to let me use their cat. Mercie is supposed to have a cat! Where’s the damn cat?