K. Vale Nagle

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Author of Eyrie and the Gryphon Insurrection (GryphIns) series. She/Her. www.kvalenagle.com (temp down) books2read.com/rl/kvalenagle kvalenagle.itch.io patreon.com/kvalenagle ko-fi.com/kvalenagle

The covers of the first ten Gryphon Insurrection novels by K. Vale Nagle, starting with Eyrie and ending with Saberbeak, portraying a wide range of interesting gryphons in interesting places from hawks to kakapo to snowy owls to diving petrels to starlings to hooded pitohui to sand cat hoopoe birds to white-tailed kites in golden armor to saber-toothed tiger gryphons. The first ten covers are in an illustrated style, but the last book, Blue Eyes, is a short story collection in a very stylized art that has a snow leopard in the snowy mountains.
A remix of McEntire's "I'm a Survivor" by transgender producer LeahAnn "Lafemmebear" Mitchell features queer and trans musician Mya Byrne on lap steel. The collaboration has been described as "unprecedented".
Author K. Vale Nagle in a black pirate hat and red floral cami, her silver bands sticking out from under the cap.
Girl with sideswept bangs that look a bit off.
Soggy sandgrouse gryphon hugs
Zeph with a tiara, sparkles, and a laser tail looking very pretty. Art by StupidShepherd.
Soggy sandgrouse gryphon hugs.
Girl slowly tanning with bangs and a ponytail and black hoop earrings. The straps of a dark pink skater dress are visible.
Silver haired girl with stormy eyes in a pirate hat.
A pink pirate finch bird waving at you from the Finch wellness app.
A straight view, slightly wider shot than in the original post, so you can see the hair framing her face is back so you can see her hoop earrings and some of her hair is darker in color and coming down in front of part of her shoulders. It has a lot of natural curl. And you can see her shoulders. She's more tan than red and has freckles. Also, her eyes are a pretty blue, but it looks like she's maybe started using a brown eyebrow pencil to darker the light outer edge of her eyebrow.
A blonde woman in a red cami wearing a pirate hat and gold hoop earrings.
A television guarded by skeletal gryphons playing The Mythos Archives from YouTube.
A black fluffy cat licking a hand and grooming herself. Did you know her coat color is called "smoky black"?
White girl with light blonde-silver hair and sideswept bangs resembling a forelock. In this one, she's looking sort of straight at you, like she understands that eye contact is considered polite among neurotypicals but she doesn't really want to do it but also, she has pretty blue eyes so it feels mean to not let you look at them. The forelock is more off to the side here.
Beneath a black and silver comforter, something unknown is burrowing closer to you. It's Indalecia F. Cat.
The Sand Gryphon Attack Pack on Telegram, showing Hoppy and Sponge causing chaos, screaming, giving soggy hugs, destroying sand castles while pretending to be kaiju, pouncing each other, and doing the hoopoe bird thing where they look like they're about to faint if you don't fetch the smelling salts but that's just how they nap in the sun. By StupidShepherd.
Brenda Lyons interior art piece of Hoppy padfoot, a hoopoe bird sand cat gryphon, drawn in beautiful graphite. Because the implied scholar drawing all of these photos is Cherine, whom Sponge has a crush on, this type of side scientific view is being photo-bombed by Sponge, a sandgrouse sand cat gryphon, who is looking straight into the viewer's eyes with her cuddly face and wide eyes.
Hoppy Padfoot of the Padfoot Pride looking at you with bedroom eyes. Why did Kittrel draw him that way. Anyways, he's a hoopoe bird sand cat gryphon with kitty ears, four kitty paws, and a kitty tail. His crest is up and his beak is slightly open. His tail is visible behind him, curled to the side.
Chert, an oilbird jaguarundi gryphon, holding a light blue heart. Kitt gave the cave gryphons hearts in the color of night lights. Slate has a soft yellow.
A tiny black cat the size of a kitten being held in large hands by a woman trying to cook dinner.
Frazzled trans girl with a black cami, purple gem necklace, dangly hair twirls framing her face, and frazzled bangs. She looks red. Someone should give her some water. But her teal sparkle eyeliner makes her eyes pretty. Also, she's back to looking blonde and not grey because of the light. Oh wait, I think she's gonna cry and it's not the eyeliner.
A sign on a door that says Feline Waiting Area with a cat paw. Not pictured is the wifi password, which is WOOF. Rude.
Shorter bands, hair pulled back, hoop earrings.
White woman with pony forelock bangs.
Whisper, a spotless starling gryphon with silvery goo in her infected eyes, fading to darker with her goo becoming trans pride colors. Gif by Merteazy.
Mally the Nighthaunt gif by Merteazy that gets bloodier as the lights go out.
Soft Paws' gryphon butt.
A phone lock screen, 100% battery because I just woke up from a nap, showing a gryphon with skeletal paint markings all over her and a medicine bag. In contrast to her witch vibes, she has medicinal flowers painted on her wings.
A seraphic opinicus at rest, four legs down with feathers folded back on them, back wings in the air.
An emerald peafowl opinicus or earless gryphon with golden-tipped talons holding a copy of Eyrie by K. Vale Nagle in her clutches, the cover depicting a happy copperhawk gryphon in a redwood forest.
Blonde pony bangs Vale with a black N95 mask and red floral cami top.
Blinky, a red and black owl gryphon with three talon scratches across one of her eyes, look sat the viewer and finally blinks as the background grows to a more intense red before relaxing again on the blink. Gif by Merteazy.
Sponge, a sandgrouse sand cat gryphon, dressed like the backup dancers from the Hydrate Jirate music video, in a white tank top, dark pink headband, questionably cool glasses, and pink fruity booty shorts, mid-dance as water falls off of her.
Sponge, a sandgrouse sand cat gryphon, winking, sticking out her tongue, and waving her paw in an animation by Merteazy.
A cat with a deerstalker cap and bow tie looking like a detective.
Blinky, a black and red owl gryphon with three scratches over one eye, staring at you. Beneath her is the text "Flock you, I'm a gryphon."
An emo transfemme egg, pale and thin, wearing a black shirt with a silver cross on it, large blue anime eyes. She has shoulder-length brown hair dyed red at the tips. She looks meek and scared.
Teal and purple galaxy swirl hair
Valerie with shiny blue hair
A red-shouldered parrot plus orange tabby cat opinicus or earless gryphon holding a heart in a chibi style. Kia from Eyrie by K. Vale Nagle. Chibi art by Kittrel AKA YoteNotes.
A black and white drawing of Tresh, a Peruvian diving petrel plus fishing cat gryphon whose beak was broken in such a way that it's developed almost shark-like pointing edges. Art by Christina Halstead AKA Risuquin.
Younce, a snow leopard gyrfalcon gryphon, who has accidentally turned himself pink while trying to clean the blood of his enemies out of his fur and feathers because he mixed up a feather soap recipe and a feather dye recipe. Art by Kieran AKA Smatterbrain AKA Toadally.
The map of Belamuria, the continent where the Gryphon Insurrection series begins, showing the various ecosystems, eyries, gryphon prides, and a salty inland sea full of bioluminscent jellyfish and a serpentine whale. North of the desert above the inland sea, on the ocean side, red algae blooms poison the coast. The upper left has the fancy eyries and plains, plus an ominous pit called the Abyssal Naze. The lower left has a few coastal eyries but is mostly a jungle full of starling gryphons with a section that's submerged all summer long. The middle bottom part is a bog and a kjarr. The top middle part is the desert and canyons. The upper right has forests, coastal towns, plains, and a large island. The lower right has a redwood valley with the southern portion being called the weald, along with a frozen taiga and a long stretch of shallows leading out to an island. Map by Jeff Brown.
The cover of Dire by Bailey showing a giant dire gryphon fighting a giant dire wyvern over a fiery hellscape with shiny metal title fonts, Feathers and Flames Book One. The cover artist is Melissa Downey.
Funkbun's art of Satra looking tired, then her fluffy caracal ears going up, then she's looking at a snow leopard gryphon and her eyes are huge and the lesbian pride flag is between them.
Darkling Dragon's art of Satra, a golden-crowned kinglet caracal gryphon, being pushed across the ice by Mignet, a snow leopard gyrfalcon gryphon who has traction. Satra shouts "What are you doing??" while Mignet, pushing her butt to send her sliding, sings "We shall rule it together, the daughters of the Kjarr and Snowfall!" Mild side note here, but it is *love story* and not *romance*.
The cover of Blue Eyes and Other Tales by K. Vale Nagle, depicting a stylized snow leopard gryphon in various shades of blue with blue eyes looking forward. Cover art by Fleeks.
A 3D mockup of an ebook boxed set with the cover of Eyrie but the words Gryphon Insurrection Books One to Three by K. Vale Nagle. The spines of Ashen Weald and Starling are visible on the side of the box.
The cover of Eyrie by K. Vale Nagle, Gryphon Insurrection Book One. The artwork, by Jeff Brown, depicts a Cooper's hawk + North American cougar gryphon in a redwood forest leaping through the air with a startled kakapo ground parrot in the background. Zeph, the gryphon, has four feline paws, and kitty ears, but his tail is feathered a bit.
Whisper, gooey infected starling gryphon, except her goo has trans pride colors worked into it.
The cover of Pridelord by K. Vale Nagle, book eight of the Gryphon Insurrection series. The cover art, drawn by Jeff Brown, depicts a murmuration of starling gryphons flying over a vibrant green jungle. They fill the sky ominously.
A pair of size 12 men's Doc Martin black short boots that are in need of a wash and polish but are otherwise doing okay.
Indalecia, a tabby cat, on her back with her paws in the air, tummy unrubbed. She looks over her shoulder at Valerie like "Why isn't this lady rubbing my tummy?"
A tabby cat on her back asking for tummy rubs but not stealing her mother-in-law's napping spot.
Silver-haired woman in a black N95 mask raising an eyebrow at you. She's in a chair at Super Cuts and her hair falls down to the top of her cami except she has pony forelock bangs now.
A terror bird + smilodon gryphon with a short tail, brown and cream almost tawny plumage and fur, and grey ears and wings. His wings are tiny.
Tabby cat sleeping on a heating pad.
The immovable tabby cat object sitting on a heating pad.
Typical fantasy cactus in Arizona.