The Book Deal

Wow! So sites like dA and flickr can really pay off. A few weeks ago, I was contacted by St Martin's publishing out of New York. It seams one of their graphic artists used a photo of mine they found on flickr as the background for the cover of an upcoming book. A New York Times best selling author even. The Book of Spies by Gayle Lynds will be on store shelves in March of next year, and the background for the cover is from my Piazza di Spagna panorama.




This is the pano they used:


I'm really glad they were honest about it. It would have been very easy for them to send this to print with out telling me and the possibility of me ever finding out would have been pretty low. I am glad now that I have always left my images as Copyrighted to me, and not creative commons. Not only will I get a credit for the book cover, but I'm also getting Paid!!!!!