Deborah

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SFF/romance writer, fairy tale maven, and general Jack. Cave-dwelling digital witch. My people are LGBTQIA, MI, & disabled. She/they. Header: Chiara Bautista. Where? https://linktr.ee/ourladyjack

Photo of the hardcover for Martha Wells' Platform Decay.
A photograph of two soft dolls, an anthropomorphic cat and rabbit wearing colorful clothing, sitting next to each other against soft fabrics. Text on the image reads "hello February." Photo by Antoni Shkraba Studio.
Video of a white rabbit looking around a snowy field; text on the image reads “Hello January.”
Cover for The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley featuring a black dragon breathing fire on a woman wielding a sword next to a rearing white horse.
Photo of a brown and white rabbit with crazy fur; text reads "hello December." Photo by Helena Lopes.
Cover art for Dear Stupid Penpal by Rascal Hartley, featuring colorful pixels dissolving into deep space as they drift up from a spaceship console.
A photo of a brown rabbit in a basket next to orange and green gourds, surrounded by other gourd and pinecone-filled baskets.
A photograph of a white rabbit with mostly black ears noses around some yellow leaves with pumpkins in the background. Text on the graphic reads "hello October" and "let get spooky."
Photograph by Mohamed Weaam of a woman with long, curly hair sitting in a folding chair, in a long black dress, holding a red apple. She's looking down to her right at a black rabbit, sitting in another white folding chair, tilting their head in her direction. Text on the image reads, "hello September. Let's chill out."
A pink background with an enlarged print of Alice and the White Rabbit by John Tenniel (from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) subtly patterned into it features large dark brown text reading "Hello August." A polaroid picture in the center of the image shows the black and white woodcut illustration of Alice watching the White Rabbit scurry away. Handwriting on the polaroid's edge reads "sorry i'm late."
A portion of the painting The Muses Urania and Calliope by Simon Vouet, depicting the muse Calliope looking toward the left with a questioning or unimpressed expression on her face. She is holding a copy of the Odyssey. The words "if you say so" have been added in a rounded pink box just to the right of Calliope's face.
Image in acid yellow-green with hexagons in black patterned with a skull motif. A central hexagon says "I voted" around the sides, and in the center of the graphic, reads, "Fangoria Chainsaw Awards." Small black text in the lower left says "The Final Frontier of Fear."
Three white rabbits nuzzle and play in a long rectangular container on a deck while grass and flowers blow in a breeze behind them. The text “Hello, July” appears on the screen in light blue and pink.
A flagged pathway is flanked by stone rabbit-shaped planters growing greenery and little purple flowers. Animated white text appears on screen reading "hello June."
A video showcasing the hardcover edition of The Celestial Dream Journal, created by Steven Pamplin and available via Amazon. A 3D mock-up of the book is centered, with glowing edges, with a celestial backdrop and spinning golden mandalas.
GIF of scene from Blackadder with the actor Brian Blessed yelling "I like not this news. Bring me some other news."
A graphic with a black background features trailing smoke in white and red decorating the upper left and lower right corners. In the center of the image, a polaroid of Tanith Lee appears to be taped to the graphic, and above that it reads "Join Our Tanith Lee Read-Along" in white and gold text. A gold circle with an arrow inside points to the right in the upper right corner, indicating the viewer should read on for more slides.
A video of a white fluffy bunny with some light brown markings sitting on a woven blanket, sniffing the air. White text in the upper left says "Hello May."
A black background features drifting tendrils of smoke decorating the upper left and lower right corners. The gold-bordered cover for the ebook of Death's Master by Tanith Lee is in the center of the image, and above that, it reads: "Now Finishing Death's Master" in gold and white font.
A small blackboard framed by bunches of white lilacs on a teal green background. The blackboard says "Hello April" and displays three small decorative white rabbits in various poses.
A golden brown lionhead rabbit stares, seemingly unimpressed, at the camera. A field of brown and green grass behind them. Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).
A grey kitty with a little white on her belly sprawls on her back in a crescent shape.
The weathered, bearded face of Israel "Izzy" Hands, portrayed by Con O'Neill in the tragically cancelled comedy series about awesome queer pirates (RIP Our Flag Means Death). Several candles stand in heavy golden candleholders behind his face; only one is lit. This is probably symbolic of something. Across the bottom of the image reads his quote, "It's about belonging to something, when the world has told you you're nothin'." The text is all white and italicized, apart from "belonging to something," which is in gold. For emphasis.
A square graphic shows the ebook cover for Night's Master by Tanith Lee on a tablet and the first page of the Introduction on a mobile device. Text to the right of the device images and beneath them reads: "$0.99 EBOOK. Today, grab the ebook for Night's Master on sale! Find it at: Bookshop.org, Amazon. Also available at Barnes & Noble, Google Play, and Apple Books."
A group of people in colorful friendly bear suits sit at a long black conference table; a person in a black bear suit gesticulates aggressively at the head of the table, then removes the bear's head to reveal Sean Connery. GIF is from the 1998 film The Avengers (which is a spy film based on a British TV series and has nothing to do with Marvel).
The 1988 movie poster for John Carpenter's They Live features a close-up on the right side of a man's face as he tugs his sunglasses down his nose. One brown eye is visible and his brow is furrowed. In the one visible lens of the black plastic sunglasses, you can see the reflection of a moody red sunset over a cityscape, a palm tree silhouette to one side, and the horrifying visage of an alien face in the foreground. The alien face has oversized, bugging eyes in a red color along with red-splotched blue skin and a lipless mouth of bared, yellowed teeth. Underneath the sunglasses, the title scrawls across the poster in white airbrushed-looking font with a red dropshadow. At the top of the poster, across the man's forehead, it reads in smaller black type: "You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You think they're people just like you. You're wrong. Dead wrong." Various production-and distribution-related film information appears at the bottom of the poster in small white font.
The 1986 movie poster for Little Shop of Horrors features the principal actors being manhandled by the tentacular vines of a giant, carnivorous plant. The man-eating plant, Audrey II, in a giant terracotta planter, is centered with her gaping maw of teeth and tongue against a backdrop featuring the silhouette of a major city skyline backlit in glowing yellow against a background of purples: light at the bottom, dark at the top. Underneath the purple-bordered skyline is a storefront with a teal-and white 50's convertible, perhaps a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air, parked out front. The musical's Chorus trio lean against the car. The principal actors include Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, and Steve Martin. The title is printed at the bottom of Audrey II's planter, with "Little Shop" arcing in yellow letters above "of" in blue font, and then "Horrors" in a red font that looks like it's dripping blood. At the top of the poster, in white font, it reads, "A singing plant. A daring hero. A sweet girl. A demented dentist. It's the most outrageous musical comedy in years." At the bottom of the poster, in smaller white font, is the various movie and distribution information.
This film poster features a full illustration for the animated film The Last Unicorn: on a dark path with close, leafless trees, a white unicorn stands and rears in the face of a fiery red bull with his horns lowered to herd her. The title for the film appears in yellow font over the flames roaring off the back of the giant Red Bull. A variety of film-related distribution information appears in small yellow font at the bottom of the poster.
Pencil crayon illustration by Emily Duffin. The interior of a cozy home with golden taupe walls; to the left, a kitchen counter with a red-checked white dishtowel hooked over the handle of an appliance. Green-patterned china hangs on the walls above the kitchen counter with heavy, dark wooden beams framing the area above. To the right, there's a chair in the background with a cushion and a pink-striped pillow resting against the slatted back. A brown bunny loafs on the chair. Above the chair hangs a small landscape painting, and, above that, a larger painting that reads FEBRUARY with a border of black keys and red hearts and red and green flowers. In the foreground, you can see a part of a wooden table bearing three containers for plants. In the largest and tallest planter, cup-shaped and white with a pattern of blue swirls and bees, nestle several daffodil bulbs. One yellow daffodil is beginning to bloom. A floppy-eared brown rabbit stands next to it on its hind legs, holding a watering can and watering the bulbs. In front of it is a brown terracotta planter of snowdrops, and to the right of that, a white cup patterned with a pink landscape contains a blue hyacinth bulb just starting to bloom. Between these two containers sits a little wood mouse, looking up at the floppy-eared bunny. There is a tiny watering can in front of the mouse. The artist's signature is in the lower left.
The background of this book cover is a dark, textured stone block wall in deep blues and greens, weathered and pocked in places. In the lower left-hand corner, sprawling across half of the cover in the same weathered stone, is a stone mural of a profusion of furled and unfurling fern-like shapes. The top third of the book is the title, The Fifth Season, centered in white font. Beneath the title, between two white lines, it reads (likewise in white font): "Every Age Must Come to An End." The author's name, N.K. Jemisin, is on the next line in large gold font, and underneath, it reads "New York Times Bestselling Author" in white font. This is followed by a quote in gold from the New York Times: "Intricate and extraordinary." All the aforementioned text is in all caps. In the lower right-hand quadrant of the cover is a gold sticker, reading "Winner of the Hugo Award" in black font.
The 1992 book cover of Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede features a mountaintop vista with a cloudy sky in the background and a few green tree tops. A light green dragon with a long neck towers over a long-haired woman in a red dress with a sword belted at her hip. She arcs up to meet the dragon in an attitude of fearlessness. The red Scholastic Books banner is in the lower left-hand corner of the cover. The title is centered in the upper third of the book in purple font, with the author's name in a purple script font underneath. Beneath the author's name, to the right, it reads, "A beautiful princess. A dangerously charming dragon."
A black background features black and gold leaves with some floating gold dust decorating the upper left and lower right corners. In the center of the image, a polaroid of Tanith Lee appears to be taped to the graphic, and above that it reads "Join Our Tanith Lee Read-Along" in white and gold text. A gold circle with an arrow inside points to the right in the upper right corner, indicating the viewer should read on for more slides.
A book cover featuring a full cover illustration by Kinuko Y. Craft, depicting a pale dark-eyed woman with delicate features and brunette ringlets framing her face, wearing a golden crown with a small teardrop pendant dangling on her forehead. She's wearing a snowy ermine mantle, but the v of it is made up of the forked branches of a tree that also fades upward into an Elizabethan whisk collar and a starry night sky. She wears a strand of pearls, and a white owl sits on one of the "branches" of the whisk collar. The owl stares with yellow eyes at the viewer. The woman's shoulders fade down into a snowy landscape dotted with black leafless trees. The borders of the cover are twining vines, green-leafed, bearing a profusion of pale pink roses. A single red rose stands out from the rest, pushing upward to cover the snowy landscape and perch before the woman's face. Red petals from the rose are falling to the left, strewn across the snow. A white line of text across the top of the cover reads "World Fantasy Award-Winning Author of Ombria in Shadow." Beneath that, the author's name, Patricia A. McKillip, appears in white, all caps, serif font. The title, Winter Rose, appears in white serif font on the next line. Beneath that line, justified left, appears the following quote in smaller white serif font: "Weaves a dense web of desire and longing, human love and inhuman need." - Publishers Weekly
A banner in support of a medical GoFundMe shows the head and shoulders of a pale brunette with glasses in a black dress with a pattern of pink and white flowers. The text to the right of the photo reads "Help Deborah Recover from Surgery" and "Donate now to help her through major surgery recovery."
A book cover with a black background, featuring the title FRANKENSTEIN diagonally (toward the upper right corner) in decorative silver font. Lightning arcs all across the cover in branching forks behind the title. Across the bottom third of the cover, a silhouette of a landscape with a castle dominates all in red. The author's name, Mary Shelley, appears across this red area in all caps, black font, framed top and bottom with some white accent lines. The edges of the cover have red lines with white lines struck through them so the border of the cover looks stitched.
A black book cover, showcasing the shadowed sculpture of Perseus holding aloft the severed head of Medusa. The sculpture is depicted from the abdomen up. The author's name, Edith Hamilton, appears in large white font, followed by the title: Mythology, Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. "Mythology" is in off-white font. There's also a tiny line of white text at the top that reads "A Mentor Book" then some information about the cost of the book in Canada and the US at the time of publication. The image is low-quality, so it's difficult to make out with accuracy, though it appears to say $6.99 and $5.99 respectively.
A book cover for the Collected Poems and Selected Prose of Charlotte Mew, edited with an Introduction by Val Warner. A blue strip runs across the top of the cover, then a thick white band where the title information is printed, and then a period illustration of the wide lawn of a British park takes up the rest. Trees are in the background, the park is dotted with street lamps, and scattered walkers are ambulating in Edwardian dress.
An illustration by Edmund Dulac, "Gerda and the Reindeer" depicts a snowy forested landscape, with Gerda in the foreground in a blue patterned dress, skirts and hair blowing in the wind, kissing the nose of a brown reindeer in thanks.
A picture of my blanket-covered knees supporting the book Cryptid Club by Sarah Andersen, which features a quartet of fetching Fresno Nightcrawlers stepping to the right. They glow in the dark. The title and subtle name are in red foil letters.
A cream white book cover is mostly taken up by the black and white line illustration of a mermaid, looking to the right. She has long flowing hair, and her tail curves right. The lower half of a second mermaid with a tail that curls back on itself is pictured to the left of the first mermaid, and is swimming toward the left side of the cover. Their top half is not visible. The mermaids are covered by the messy blue font of the title, reading In Other Lands on three lines. The author's name, Sarah Rees Brennan, appears on two lines in a straightforward blue font, and a line reading "New York Times Bestselling Author" appears beneath her name. A quote is featured in the top left corner of the cover, also in plain blue font, reading, "'Brennan delivers witty, nervy, romantic adventure that fizzes with feeling and giddy imagination.' - Leigh Bardugo, bestselling author of Crooked Kingdom."
Photo of mature Rocky Mountain Douglas-firs on hilly ground with a blue sky above and a large swatch of white cloud. Photograph by Dave Powell, USDA Forest Service - this image is Image Number 1210046 at Forestry Images, a source for forest health, natural resources and silviculture images operated by The Bugwood Network at the University of Georgia and the USDA Forest Service., CC BY 3.0 us, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5311562
This book cover depicts an illustration of brick facade of sandy golden bricks with a keyhole archway centered: in the top of the archway, there looks to be the symbol of a bee. Through the archway, you can see a dark purple sea under a gradient sky (fading from black at the top to progressively lighter blues at the sea's horizon). The purple silhouette of a sailing ship with wind-swept sails crosses the water toward the left. In white text, all caps, across the top, it reads: "national bestseller." The title, The Starless Sea, is centered in various fancy fonts, followed by yellow text, centered, reading "By the author of The Night Circus." The author's name, Erin Morgenstern, appears in white font and all caps at the bottom of the cover.
This image features the text of a poem in black font. The title, bolded, is "I Do Not Order Two Raw Sugars in My Americano," and the poet's name, Elise M Powers, appears at the bottom of the page. The text is: "But the barista at my local spot / doesn't know that. Or, she doesn't care. / I've tried to tell her, / but she sees my face and laces my cup / like a grandmother / who won't take no for an answer. / Despite myself, I soften into this small insistence. / Did you know a black coffee / has just two calories? / Add cream and it swells to forty two. / Sugar, and it surges another hundred. / This information matters only when / the size of your body is more important / than the size of your joy. / Yet, even when we don't ask for it, / even when we insist against it, / joy always finds us again. / One day soon it will sweeten your coffee, / or curl into the crook of your elbow, / or nest in your magnolia, / and you'll say yes, yes, I remember."
An all-white book cover has a simple sketch outline of a cloak’s hood taking up the lower three-quarters of the cover. Inside the hood is a detailed black and white drawing of a wizened old face with a black bird’s head nestled against their right cheek. They’re both peering out. The top of the cover has the title, Transformations, in all caps in mauve font justified left. Underneath is the author’s name, Anne Sexton, in all caps in ochre. Beside her name, it reads in black font, all caps, “winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry,” and underneath her name, it reads “with a preface by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.” Likewise in all caps and black font.
Book cover for Robin McKinley's The Hero and the Crown, featuring a full-cover illustration of a large black dragon with front claws spread, hulking over and streaming fire at the figure of a woman with a sword drawn and pointed upward, flinching back from the flames, as she stands next to a rearing white saddled horse. The name of the author is in orange type, centered under a blurb at the top of the cover, reading, "Refreshing... haunting... an utterly engrossing fantasy!" from The New York Times, followed by "Award-winning author of THE BLUE SWORD." Underneath Robin McKinley's name, it reads, "THE LEGEND OF THE BLUE SWORD BEGINS..." and then the title, in orange font with a white drop shadow.
A sumptuous book cover for a collected volume of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. The cover features a rich red background and is thickly bordered in a gold leaf-looking design in a bold art nouveau style of red and blue patterns festooned with arches and suggested floral shapes. In large front, the title dominates the center top of the cover’s available space, and reads The Annotated Alice. Underneath is a circle containing a John Tenniel illustration of Alice in her blue dress, reclining on a chair and playing with a black kitten. On the next line, it reads, “The Definitive Edition,” then Lewis Carroll on the next in larger font. The rest of the cover text reads “Introduction and Notes by Martin Gardner,” and “Original Illustrations by John Tenniel.” All the text is in gold.
A book cover for In Mad Love and War, a collection of poetry by Joy Harjo. The title is contained in a narrow vertical column in the center of the cover, black font on a white background, with the author’s name under the title. The rest of the cover has a dark gray background and features pictographs all around the title. From upper left, clockwise, there’s a deer in black, a white open hand on a red slash of color, a black scrawled cloud shape, four swerving lines nestled together horizontally (two red followed by two black), an upward pointing arrow head in grey on a black box outlined in red, an arrow pointing right that is outlined in black on a streaky red swath of color, and lastly, a human figure with a rayed halo about its head all in white outline on a black bottle-shaped swatch. Two red dots hover between this section and the deer above it.
A book cover for a collective edition of The Lord of the Rings, being one volume that includes The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, as well as the appendices. The cover background is black and features a large flat ring design outlined in gold. The ring is filled with Elvish script in red. In the center of the ring, it reads “The Lord of the Rings” in white font in all caps. Underneath the ring is J. R. R. Tolkien’s signature, and beneath that, it reads “One-volume edition with the appendices” in red font and all caps.
A book cover that reads "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry" across the top in black font across a white background, followed by the author's name, "Mary Oliver" on the next line in larger dark blue font, and then the title of her poetry collection, "Dream Work" on the next two lines in large, bold dark blue font. The rest of the cover is a rectangular inset showing a painting of a town street with buildings set close together on either side of the street and a small boat in the foreground in dry dock. The painting is colorful but muted, and focuses more on the impression of shape than detailed realism.
A book cover for The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett features a sheep’s face staring forward at the viewer, showing off the sheep’s shaggy roundness in the background and a hint of blue sky behind. Four small blue men with ferocious expressions and wild red hair lurk in various positions on the sheep. Across the top of the cover, it reads “New York Times Bestselling Author” then “Terry Pratchett” across two lines, then the quote, “Exuberant and irresistible.” - The Washington Post. All this type is yellow. The title is printed in three horizontal lines and dark blue type across the sheep’s face. Across the bottom, it reads, “A Tiffany Aching Adventure.” This type is in white.
A book cover for The Armless Maiden And Other Tales for Childhood’s Survivors, edited by Terri Windling. The whole cover is a golden color, and much of it is taken up, from side to side, by a collage featuring a photograph of a dark-haired woman in a white dress, standing to the left of a tall table and resting her hand on it. The photograph is torn along the right edge to show a page of text beneath. Leaves are scattered to the right. The title takes up the top of the cover and the right hand side in eight horizontal lines with the editor information on two horizontal lines beneath the subtitle. Two quotes demonstrating the book’s accolades are featured: in the top left corner, it reads: “A marvelous collection… It will move your heart as it changes your mind.” - Andrew Vachas. In the bottom left, it reads: “These fairy tales, ‘new tales spun from the threads of the old,’ plumb the dangers, the pain, and the way back to life.” - Feminist Bookstore News. There is a pressed bit of greenery - three leaves on one stem - in the upper right, next to the title. All the text is in a dark color on the golden background.
A horizontal rectangular graphic that says "Glamour & Gloomth: Why We Need the Gothic More than Ever" in four horizontally arranged lines on the left, further reading "A Free Workshop" underneath that text. All the text is white on a black background. To the right of the lettering is an illustration of a fine china teacup on a saucer, featuring a delicate purple floral pattern on both cup and plate. The teacup is a bit shadowy. Two thin tongues of steam curl up from the cup, and two tiny white ghosts circle around the steam.
A book cover for Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God features the author's name in white text across the top of the cover. The title is laid out in several lines horizontally starting about halfway down the cover length, also in white text, with the phrase "a novel" in smaller text to the right of the title. Beneath this text, a quote from Alice Walker is included, reading, "There is no book more important to me than this one." The cover reads "Harper Perennial - Modern Classics" across the bottom of the cover. In the bottom right corner, a circular white patch interrupts the cover background and reads "P.S. Insights, Interviews & More..." in a golden brown text. The background of the cover is a beautiful charcoal sketch of a woman with her eyes closed, facing toward the right of the cover in three-quarter turn toward the viewer, and her image is overlaid with a faded golden design of rioting flowers from the shoulders down.
A book cover featuring the title Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in large white letters on a black background. Beneath the title, it reads “a novel” in smaller white type, then displays the white silhouette of a raven in flight (toward the right), followed by the author’s name, Susanna Clarke, in large white letters at the bottom of the cover.
Book cover for Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, featuring a central circle in which the green-skinned witch in black dress, cloak, and hat is seen in profile. Her eyes are obscured by the brim of her hat and a tornado is pictured in the barely visible distance behind her. The title in red arches above the circle with the subtitle in black arching below. Decorative elements flank the pale yellow circle, looking almost like twine. The circle sits on a pale pink vertical square with the author’s name in black at the bottom. The square is bracketed by spindly and thorny trees. The rest of the cover is a similar muted yellow to the central circle.
The cover for Shirley Rousseau Murphy’s The Catswold Portal novel. The cover focuses on a calico cat with green eyes perched on a wooden or stone table, framed in an open archway to a golden misty cavern with some vague rock formations suggested in the distance. The archway features stone carvings of ferocious cats and is partially covered in brown twining vines. A Booklist quote reading “A captivating feline fantasy!” is printed across the top of the cover.
A book cover for Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn, featuring a gold-framed tableau that centers a unicorn standing in a stream in a forest with the moon shining down, surrounded on the frame by characters from the novel, including - clockwise from the upper left - a harpy, a lady dressed in blue, a red wolf, a raven, and a magician.