Author Photos -- it's time to update...

Yes, my author photos are ancient. I have never taken good photos. When I was 103 pounds, my pics would make me look 300. So when I get a photo, I keep them. But it's time to stop hemming and hawing and get my author photo retaken. Or, when people see me, they're going to be like, "Are you that girl's mother?" Or worse yet, "You look like that Barbie realtor meme."

So I've updated my photos on most of my social media, but I cannot figure out how to get my pic out of that circle on the blog's banner. Yesterday, my son took me out to breakfast. When I wasn't looking, he took a photo, sent it to me and said, "Update your author photo."

Ouch. Why do my kids have to do me like that?

This is why I'm a writer, I'm not a model. I didn't grow up taking selfies, so I don't have a new shot every day. The entirety of my children's youth, I took all the pictures so I'm not in anything. And this is the road I have taken. And even if I was a supermodel, do you care what your author looks like? I mean, does anyone care if Thomas Hardy or Dickens was a looker? What about Dean Koontz?

Where are Glamorshots when you need them?  I mean, I wouldn't have to worry about a double chin if I had a perfectly good feather boa wrapped around my neck. But the point it taken, I'll get a new author photo. Sigh.