I have a problem, I was recently contacted for a book cover commission and  the author had a certain stock model in mind for the project so I said no problem, I will contact her and get the details for a model release. Her stock rules say to contact her for commercial use. So I did this last week some time, I can see looking at my sent notes that she has opened and read the note but still no reply. This is very frustrating...this stocker is very popular and I see that many people have used her in commercial works so why is she not responding? I know you guys do not have the answer but I just wish that stockers would realize that we are on deadlines sometimes and if her answer is no, that is fine I will look for someone else. I find it all very frustrating.

here is a long overdo  feature of some great works from my faves recently