It is useful to have this reference. I prefer to use my own pictures, but lately I have realised I do not have the skills to get to a really professional quality. I’m always nervous of downloading and using something with the wrong licence though and frequently start of thinking I found a free picture only to realise I have to pay.

I thinks you ‘d like to know i am a strong critic, yeah critics make you a better person in whatever you are doing!!

I had thought that the first thing you supposed to have done is to let us know what stock photos are, cos as it stands now – i am more confused now than i was before reading this post, you can’t just start writing avenues where we get stock photos without letting us know what stock photos are.

P.S: just my mind!!

I tried looking at unsplash for some photos, after I have read this post. They are with names though under them. Then, it only means we cannot use them because somebody owns them.

I am more comfortable with pixabay and using my own photos which I take through my smartphone.

Sometimes, I go to google and get those images already there. Is it safe to get those images from google?

Insightful article. As a book writer for kindle, there is a challenge issued. The challenge is how to find your proper niche and write useful information. I have been blessed to have sold a couple of my ebooks. Although, I am not a millionaire, it’s nice to see that someone is interested in my ebooks. Ebooks are good,short and free to publish if you know what you are doing. Today’s technology offers us a shortcut and gone are the days of expensive publishing costs. The downside is getting exposure for you and your book and that is where the rubber meets the road.

I am convinced that marketing plays a big role and wish I had the confidence to market my eBooks the way some of the people who wrote the rubbish I have downloaded did! In one way though, it is nice people are writing and an eBook is a good way to get a message out if you have something worthwhile to say. I taught myself how to write one by writing an eBook on how to write an eBook and looking at all the conventions there were that people generally do not know. It is somewhere out there having sold a single copy, but I really wrote it for me and the next one maybe I will have confidence in the marketing side of things.

I hear you. I understand the pain and frustration that you have felt. Writing can be a long and painful journey but have you considered writing an ebook? Ebooks are easy to create and if you know what you are doing, it is free. The best site that I can recommend is Amazon. Amazon has some tools that will help create your ebook. Plus, when you finish, tell your friends and family about it. Put it on the social media. Watch some youtube instructions on how to sell your ebook. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. The important thing is not to give up. God bless.

I see why your in pain and annoyed, i guess all the writers been there and suffered from that, the first step I guess is to make your family and neighbors involved with you and your work i guess