Wishin' and hopin'

No, I am not talking about that Dusty Springfield song. I am talking about how I wish that I could illustrate a book containing some or all of the following:

a jukebox
a diner
a phone booth
a a 1956 Cadillac
a beauty parlor
a 50's kitchen
lots of cowboys
lots of taxi's
lots of buildings
a nightclub
an antique store
a 50's kitchen
a 50's department store
lots of clothes and junk that you would buy in a 50's department store
lots of junk period, like I live with all the time and have an obsession about buying

OK. I confess. I not only like to collect junk, I love to draw junk. With total glee I am now painting some of the above: the cowboys and the buildings, in my book that will come out next spring:
TEX AND SUGAR: A BIG CITY KITTY DITTY

Since there is a limit as to how much junk one can actually purchase or fit into one's house, one has to have a scheme if one is to keep from going nuts with covetitis. So one, or at least THIS ONE, has to draw stuff in illustrations and write about it.

I have several PB mss in the works containing some of the above. That should save me some money and living space.

I also have a MG novel in the works that takes place in Buffalo in the seventies. If you read my bio on my web site, you will know why I have a certain fondness for BUffalo in the 70's.

So if by some fluke, and editor or AD ever reads this blog and has a ms to illustrate that contains some of the above or is in the flavor of the above, think of me.