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New project

I've been working on a book of family-orientated children's stories, drawing on my experiences bringing up my kids as a single father. 

I asked AI to interpret one of the stories in art and it came up with this image (after a couple of dismal failures).

It's actually a fair representation of the story.  

Now, to begin the daunting process of finding a publisher for this collection.

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