"Is that really you?"

Well, hello there. This week I have some new pictures to you show you and in true, immodest writerly fashion, they are of me. Posing.

This fall, Kingston Life magazine profiled eight local authors (including Steven Heighton, Helen Humphreys and Jamie Swift, so I was in awfully distinguished company), had us talk about the writing life, and commissioned photos for all of us. Talk about living the dream! It's now time for me to update my author photograph, so I asked photographer Scott Adamson for some images from the shoot and he kindly sent me a bunch. My only difficulty here is which to use. Here are my two favourites:

They were both taken at one of my favourite spots in Kingston, and the water I'm standing in is Lake Ontario. And no, the photos don't lie; it's glorious here.

Speaking of photos lying, though: with my old author photo, an acquaintance said, "Wow. You look so… good in that picture." And with the new one, someone else said, "That's a VERY flattering photo." (WordPress lacks caps big enough to do justice to her "VERY".) Both times, I was most amused.

What's the funniest/most ridiculous thing someone's said to you about a photo?