The other day I was playing around on Google, looking myself up. I learned some interesting things. Several sites have been re-posting my work, which is fine with me, as long as they give me credit. But what I enjoyed most were the images. If I searched for my name plus "writer" or "translator," I got one type of result; quite a different one if I searched for my name plus "#nsfw," or "udugi." Here are some examples, to show you what I mean:
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Now, I am not what they call in Spanish a "corbata" (a "necktie guy," generally equated with being a "stuffed shirt"). The pic at top left was shot by Sandy in 2010, as an author pic for Inner Traditions. I do not believe I have worn a necktie since that day, but it was the desired image at the time. I was interested to see that Google found book-cover shots put out by Simon and Schuster, who have taken over the marketing of those titles. My sister Patricia, who knows far more about book publishing than I do, tells me that that is a big deal.
If you visited me on any given day, the black-and-white profile pic would fit me a lot better.
Next, I searched for my name plus "#nsfw," and got the results that I like best, the ones I consider most significant. Here, I've played with those results a bit:
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Now we're talking! I relate much better to this guy.
I got another nice result when I searched for my name plus "udugi." Again, I relate well to the images:
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I think we know which one is the real me. What I can't figure out is how my cat's rear end got into these these pictures.
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