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You have to have them hosted on another site, then point your forum post at the image on the other site. I use postimages.org (it's free), but there are others. Some of what follows is from memory, but close enough you'll be able to figure it out. Very easy to get set up with them (you'll need to create an account, as far as I know).

Upload your image(s) to your postimages.org account. Click on My Images on the upper right of that site. Hover over the uploaded image that you want to link to. One of the floating icons that appears over the image is for "sharing". Click on that icon, and you'll get a list of possible link addresses that you can copy into your forum post here. Use the link address for "Thumbnail for Forums". Click the copy icon to the right of that link address, and paste (ctrl-v) into your forum post, like so:

Voila! It'll take you a few minutes to set up the account on the other site, but once you've done it once, the whole process will seem trivial.

Click on Quote on the bottom right of this post to see the link address I copied here to bring up the thumbnail above. The entire line beginning with "[url=" came from postimages.org (the image itself is hosted on postimg.cc, which is what the url points to). Just copy and paste as I noted above.

Anyone who clicks on the icon will be taken to a full version of the image on postimg.cc. I'm sure some of the other link addresses might be useful too, but I haven't played with them.

Dirk

I swear, my cat seems more like a toddler all the time. He gets upset/vocal and starts biting (though mildly) when I stop playing fetch with him, despite 1.5 hours of me throwing colorful toy springs down the hall for him to chase. And he's a holy terror at bedtime, when I put his toys away to stop him from making noise while I (and my neighbors) are trying to sleep. It also causes him to stop running around on my hardwood floors, which sounds like a lightweight galloping horse running up and down the hall.

Of course, now that he's asleep, he's absolutely adorable, but then what sleeping toddler isn't? :-)

Speaks for itself.

J.R., since it works for some but not others, can I suggest you send Sol a copy of the image file you were using?
Send to: contact@thenextbigwriter.com

I checked. Although there is no exact match for Gathers the Darkness it brings up a page-full of close matches, mostly all close variants of those words. Oddly, my title, As Darkness Gathers, gets far fewer close matches. The exact match is the one novel I mentioned earlier with the same name as my series, and it shows up as number 1. Given the way Amazon operates, I would have expected at least a dozen other, irrelevant, promoted titles to show up first. After all, Jeff Bezos has obscene boat expenses to pay for.

I meant you don't need to use text as part of your book covers here, whether you add them yourself or let the Publish wizard add one for you. Your chosen cover on this site is never displayed here without the name of the book, short story, or poem being either beside, above, or below the cover image.

For what it's worth, you don't need a title on the book cover on this site. If I remember correctly, whenever this site displays your cover, the name of the book will always be included in text anyway, so there's no need for it on the image. When it displays your book cover as a thumbnail, such as on our home pages, it's usually too difficult to read anyway.

Yup. Sounds familiar.  One of the reasons they may change their answers or at least give more detail is simply how fast these companies are working to improve their versions of AI. Your response here reminded me that I need to go check which version of Gemini I was using. I signed up for their Pro trial, which is free for a year, but it has reverted to their basic version on occasion. Not sure why.

Sol,

Kdot got kicked out of the site while posting a fairly short follow-up to an existing thread (near the end of the VQF thread in the Fantasy+ forum).
And I got kicked out while typing a somewhat longer post in a new thread in the Premium forum about Gemini and capitalization.

Any chance the hunt for this bug and a fix can move up in priority.

Thanks
Dirk

Uploading where? On this site? Longstanding issue. Try converting it to a different image file type. Jpegs are the mostly like to work. May require futzing with the image file (e.g., load it into your favorite image app, especially Paint, make a minor change (e.g., compress it, edit the image slightly, etc.), then save it back as a Jpeg.

Someone else may have suggestions for this one.

Dirk

Cattain's Log. Star Date: Who cares?

Gandalf is back to his normal high-energy, ravenous self. He had stopped eating for a couple of days, except the Churu, which is mostly water. The shelter suggested he might be bored with his food, so they suggested I try a different brand. He likes Hills Science Diet, which got him to eat a little, then nothing. Since he wasn't obviously sick or in pain (he was still playing), Gemini suggested he might be constipated. I got some pumpkin puree for him, but he doesn't like it, and I couldn't hide it in his food since he wasn't eating. The shelter's vet was closed, and it didn't appear to be an emergency, so I kept up with water and Churu over the weekend and gave him toys that I know will cause him to be more active (e.g., toy mice that he loves to stalk, smack around, chase, and pounce on). Later that day, he finally pooped. I am able to sneak the pumpkin into his wet food, which he'll eat, so he gets a little of that now too.

At this point, I no longer give him dry food since the wet food is nutritionally complete, and the dry food is supposed to be dehydrating. Combine that with the risk of urinary problems, and I'd have to be an idiot to keep going with how the shelter feeds their cats. I also switched out his Sheba pate for Sheba entrees, which include more liquid. Once I can officially adopt him, I'm going to switch him to Hills Science Diet. I've given him more of it since he resumed eating, and he definitely likes it. It also smells more like real food than Sheba. I may join him at the cat bowl.

I woke up this morning, sleeping on my side as I usually do. After maybe 10-20 seconds, I turned onto my back, careful to be sure I didn't roll onto Gandalf, because he sometimes sleeps in weird places near me. As I turned, he was just sitting there, as if he'd been waiting for me to wake up. He gave a really friendly meow, crawled onto my chest and just lay there, relaxed. What a great way to wake up. And it's so rare that he doesn't put his butt in my face. :-)

I asked Gemini today about some of his behaviors. He often will press his fangs against my skin. Although that can be a warning if he's overstimulated, which several people here already suggested, it's also another way of him being friendly. A friendly nip that doesn't draw blood. Talk about sending mixed signals. :-) Apparently, it's what kittens do to their siblings. He also grooms me sometimes with his tongue the way he does his own fur. Never thought I'd be bathed by a cat. Speaking of which, he is very curious about showers, so much so he now jumps in the tub ahead of me, although he still takes off once it looks like he might get wet. Then there's the regular nose bumps against my face. Apparently that's a cat kiss. I also just read today that when a cat presses its paw against you (he does that to my face a lot), it's yet another sweet gesture.

Also, I woke up a couple of days ago, lying on my back, which happens sometimes, but I try to avoid it as it's uncomfortable. Since he wasn't on the bed, I figured he was in my office chair down the hall, which is where he often sleeps. I threw back the covers to get up, accidentally rolling him 360 degrees from atop my legs onto the other half of the bed. The look on his face was priceless: "What the hell just happened?"

Probably my favorite behaviors is the way he always races me up the stairs. He gives me a head start until I get halfway up, then races up and past me while making this cute warbling noise that sounds like him trying to imitate a racing car.