When I got out of the hospital about 7 weeks later, it seemed like the art career was back to square one, and so I thought perhaps I could be one of those illustrators who does romance novel covers. I did 4 different sample covers (of which the above is the best) that I then sent to various publishers in the genre. They all turned me down...which is fine with me, because I'm much happier with the rather different direction I wandered off into after that...