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New premade cover up on Etsy! It's a fantasy cover this time, featuring a woman with a sword advancing on you with purpose. (Also note the nifty 15-sec video I made for it. Etsy really wants us to post videos of products, and I'm guessing that the algorithm pushes items with videos a bit more, so this is a test.)

I think I forgot to mention the science fiction book cover I posted there last week, featuring a stock photo woman holding a gun on a digital background.

I've also started posting digital backdrops and characters for people to use in their own work. There seems to be a reasonably large market for portrait photographers, pro and amateur, to use digital backgrounds to composite their clients into, and I already know there's a book cover market for digital characters and backgrounds, so purchasers get full commercial rights (barring selling the image with no changes to it) as well.

If you wouldn't mind helping me a bit with Etsy, favoriting my shop and/or various items in it pushes them higher in the algorithm, much like thumbs-up and comments on YouTube videos. If you favorite the shop, you'll get notifications when I post something new, and if you favorite items, you'll get notifications when they're on sale (and you might also get a coupon for the item within a few days...at least I've set it to do that, and Etsy occasionally actually sends them). I'm pricing the digital backgrounds and characters with the intention of holding frequent sales for deep percentages off and doing most of their sales at those times.

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A poll!

We just had someone knock on our door and try to sell us something we've never been sold door-to-door before!

WHAT DO YOU THINK IT WAS? Vote before you look below the cut, as I put the answer there.

Poll #25219 What was being sold door to door?

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 38

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So what was the door-to-door salesperson who just talked to us selling?

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Pen crabs
2 (5.3%)

Weekly dog poop removal from the back yard
10 (26.3%)

Rodent extermination...from a Volkswagon Bug with mouse ears and a tail
12 (31.6%)

Birdseed
0 (0.0%)

Cable management systems
1 (2.6%)

Manga
4 (10.5%)

Pop-up greeting cards
5 (13.2%)

Salad
5 (13.2%)

Insulation
2 (5.3%)

Gamestop stock
8 (21.1%)

Now that you've voted, the answer is....

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