The Moody Blues, New York City,Dinosaurs...and back!!!

My life can be a crazy headlong rush sometimes! On Sunday, we saw THE MOODY BLUES again-this is the third time in 18 months!! But I could see them twice that in half the time and never tire of their great music!! The audience, at the Providence Performing Arts Center was pretty amazing and I think even amazed the band themselves. We got back from there and, at 5am the next day, had to leave for New York City to meet good friends John Davis and his wife Kim Saxon, for some fun and tooling around the Museum of Natural History(DINOSAURS!!!) and toy stores. Staying at the vert swanky Muse Hotel on 46th Street(I highly recommend it. It's "high end" as price goes but nothing in NYC that's safe is available for under $200, and this hotel has been designed for the artist's "muse"-lots of interior decoration, art, etc. It seems to have worked as I feel very inspired!!!!)we had a great meal Monday night and, Tuesday, met with Irene Gallo-art director of TOR Books(see The Art Dept in my links) for a good lunch. Managed to pull her out of some intense and seemingly endless meetings. I also picked up some cool books and some toys and stuff. NYC is very good for that! On each side of this trip I managed to sign 1500 signatures for the sig page of Brian Lumley's book HAGGOPIAN AND OTHERS, due out in May from Subterranean.

Oh, and here's some preliminary sketches for two upcoming covers I am doing, for a Heinlein(Bottom) and an Andre Norton(top).

I'm breathing again, very slowly.