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Author, cat person, plant daddy, comic nerd, and book lover. 🚫 AI. They/he. In my garden in Seattle. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 sliverofice.com/links

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Book cover for Elements: Earth A Comic Anthology by Creators of Color! by Taneka Stotts Features an illustration of a giant elephant made of rocks and moss with a castle on top and white birds surrounding it. The elephant walks among mountains as it's the same size as the mountains.
Book cover for American Sweethearts (Dreamers #4) by Adriana Herrera Cover features a photograph of a Black and Latino man facing the camera. He has short curly black hair and a thick beard. He's wearing a soft-looking gray hoodie that's unzipped and a light blue crewneck t-shirt. There is a purple and orange sunset sky behind him.
Book cover for DILF: Did I Leave Feminism? by Jude Doyle Features an ombre of pastel colors and the title in swoopy white letters.
Book cover for Thirty Love by Tom Vellner Cover features an illustration of two men standing in front of a tennis net with a court and stadium behind them. The men are almost kissing. The man on the left is a white man with blonde hair. He's wearing a white polo shirt and blue shorts. On the right is a Latino man with dark curly hair. He's wearing a black tank top that shows off his muscles and matching shorts. His wrist has a white sweatband, and he's holding a red tennis racket.
Book cover for There Will Be Phlogiston (Prosperityverse #5) by Alexis Hall Cover is an illustration of two white men in an embrace where both of their shirts are pulled down over their shoulders. In the background is a white woman riding a steampunk zombie horse.
Book cover for Smut Peddler Presents: Sex Machine, edited by Amanda Lafrenais Cover features a giant red robot whose parts are showing. The head is a TV screen that says the book title.
Book cover for Mini Minority Monsters by Tab A. Kimpton Features an illustration of a bright and cheery fantasy land. There is an all-pink cottage labeled "Ace Cakes" with a pink path going to it. Walking on that path is a purple unicorn with a top hat, tail bow, hoof tux covers, and a mustache that is smoking a pipe that has bubbles coming out of it. There is a red dragon holding up a sign with the book title. A red castle is in the background of a forest. In the sky, there is a moon rising with two griffins in love. There is a rainbow waterfall going into a river and two demon/fae humanoids having a picnic on a blanket nearby.
Book cover for To Kidnap A Princess (Dangerous Tides #4) by Katee Robert Features a woman underwater emerging from a mirror and manipulating the water with her hand.
Book cover for The Witch King (Witch King #1) by H.E. Edgmon Features Wyatt stepping toward the reader, a white teenage boy in a black hood, jeans, and gray boots. On his left is a Native American teenage girl. She is curvy, with long black hair tipped green, and she wears a blue dress. On his right is a black teenage demon boy with curly ram's horns and bat-like wings, wearing a white crop top, many necklaces, and purple shorts with a green design.
Book cover for Paper Planes by Jennie Wood, Dozerdraws, and Micah Myers Features an illustration of two teens sitting back-to-back on the floor, knees up. On the left is Dylan, a white nonbinary teen, wearing a purple T-shirt and tan pants with black and white canvas sneakers. Next to Dylan is a gray cat. On the right is Leighton, a teen girl with tan skin, wearing a white crop top and black athletic shorts with white sneakers. In front of her is a tennis trophy. There are tons of paper airplanes on the floor.
Book cover for The (Most Unusual) Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy by Roan Parrish The cover is an illustration of a blue Victorian-style home surrounded by a gold fence. There is a ghost rising from the house, a pride flag on the house's side, cobwebs covering the porch, and a skull sitting by the front door. Framing the book's sides are swampy trees that look haunted. Outside of the gate sits a skull and crossbones.
Book cover for Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt Cover is an illustration of a white woman's head. She's buried in a pile of pink worms, and some are crawling into her open mouth.
Book cover for Feast (Polyamory Comics Anthology #1), edited by Tab A. Kimpton and Sfé R. Monster Features a group of three human-like beings clearly in a relationship with one another. One appears to be human, another a demon with red skin and horns, and a third an elf with pinkish purple skin. They hold hands and share food at a round wooden table in some sort of great hall. They also carry a sword, shield, and arrows.
Cover for Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo Features a photorealistic white hand reaching toward a skeleton hand. They're connected by green vines, with some dead ones around the dead hand.
Book cover for All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles Features an illustration of a kind of gothic weirdo McMansion with two white men in Edwardian-era suits running out of it and into the moors.
Book cover for Darkhearts by James L. Sutter Features an illustration of two Asian American teen boys who are about to kiss. One has a bird tattoo on his cheek. They're drawn in black and red, with a red heart behind them, contrasted with the cover's bright teal blank space.
Book cover for Repression Queen: A Memoir About Gender Transformation Erotica by Harper O'Neill Features a sketch-like drawing of a person curled up around themself with their face scratched out. Around them are little doodles like you might put on your math homework in high school. The book's title is in the trans flag colors.
Book cover for The Marauders' Island by Tristan J. Tarwater The cover illustration is a cutout, like a mirror, featuring Azria, ready with her mage powers, standing next to her pirate mom, who looks ready to cut someone with a sword.
Red and orange ombre blossoms next to a trans pride flag with a bedroom in the background
Book cover for The Wonder by Emma Donoghue Cover is blue with a photograph of a young white girl who is overexposed in a way that makes her look like a holy figure or ghost.
Book cover for Space for More (Spire Station #2) by Emily Antoinette Features three people in a row next to each other, sitting or standing against a bar. L-R: a white human woman who is sitting on a stool and wearing a purple bodysuit; a pink alien woman with 4 arms in a white bodysuit and matching tall boots; and a lighter pink alien man, also with 4 arms, dressed in black pants and a black sleeveless shirt.
Book cover for The Wallflower Wager (Girl Meets Duke #3) by Tessa Dare The cover is a photo of a white man lying on top of a white woman on a bed, like they're going to kiss. He's shirtless with black pants. She's wearing a pink dress and has long blonde hair.
Book cover for The Order: Inside America's Racist Underground by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt Features a red toned photo of The Order's leader with a bunch of followers and some flags in the background.
Book cover for The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice The title is in block-y goth style letters with some dripping blood on the E in Lestat.
Book cover for Entranced by the Basilisks (Monstrous Matches #3) by Lillian Lark Lark paints her own covers! This one features a Middle Eastern man wearing a white shirt who is a red snake from the waist down and also his arms. He's wrapped around two people. There is a Latina with long black hair in his arms, with closed eyes and a pleasure-filled look on her face. The snake man's hand is on her throat and her back leans against him. She's in a heart-shaped top black dress. A white man with brown hair leans his face against her stomach and has his hand on her hip. Her hand is on his.
Book cover for Post-Traumatic by Chantal V. Johnson Features black and white photo of a woman leaning over a small ledge (maybe a bathtub or a railing). She smokes a joint and has a white towel wrapped around her hair.
Book cover for How Simi Got Her Groom Back by Sonali Dev Cover is illustrated and features a red convertible driving away from the reader. Prem drives the car and the 2 sisters are in the back.
Book cover for The Boyfriend Project (The Boyfriend Project #1) by Farrah Rochon The illustrated cover features a Black man and woman standing side by side, with her back to his side. He's wearing a white dress shirt and gray pants. She's in a red blouse with a pinky Peter Pan collar and a rolled-up sleeve underside, and her high heels match the collar. Her knee-length skirt is navy with a gold belt.
Book cover for They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker Cover features an illustration of a young George Takei standing in a long line of Japanese people heading into an internment camp with a white US soldier with a gun ready to stop anyone trying to resist.
Book cover for Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz Cover is an illustration of a robot hand digging into biang biang noodles with chopsticks. They're in a bowl that has the Golden Gate Bridge on it. Three other robots are miniaturized and sitting around.
Book cover for She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran Cover features a young Vietnamese women with long dark hair and band. There are flower bugs coming out of her mouth and she is crying. She wears a white shirt with a stand collar that has embroidery on the collar.
Book cover for Cautionary Fables and Fairytales #2: Tamamo the Fox Maiden and Other Asian Stories, edited by Kel McDonald Features illustrations of a woman in kabuki makeup taking off a fox mask, a monkey sitting cross-legged and meditating, and a bird carrying a package. A snake also climbs over them all.
Book cover for Poison Ivy, Vol. 3: Mourning Sickness (Poison Ivy (2022) #13-18) by G. Willow Wilson, Marcio Takara, Arif Prianto, Guillem March, Kelley Jones, A.L. Kaplan, José Villarrubia, Luana Vecchio, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou Cover features an illustration of Poison Ivy wearing a bra top. She is very pregnant with wooden/green hands going toward her stomach. You cannot see her face.
Book cover for Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo Cover features an illustration of San Francisco in the 1950s with old cars and street lamps and the gates of Chinatown. Two teenage girls have stepped out of the street light to hold hands and face each other in a nearby alleyway.
Book cover for How to Cure a Ghost by Fariha Róisín Cover is blue with two illustrations of bodies that are pink. One seems to be sitting and then lifting the other into the air, who is levitating.
Book cover for Dating Dr. Dil by Nisha Sharma Features an illustration of an Indian woman wearing a black sweater vest with a white polo underneath and black glasses, sitting on a red winged chair with a heart-shaped back. Standing behind the chair to one side is an Indian man wearing teal medical scrubs with a stethoscope around his neck. He's leaning over, looking down at her.
Book cover for Julie Chan Is Dead by Liann Zhang Features an illustration of a bunch of white women with blonde hair looking at their phones. In the middle is an Asian woman with long dark hair, and she holds up her phone horizontally over her eyes. Her phone is the same color as the white women's skin and her eyes are a bright blue and she has dark blonde eyebrows like the white women.
Book cover for Chicks Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor Who, edited by Deborah Stanish and L.M. Myles Cover features an illustration of femme who is dressed up like the Doctor, including 4's famous scarf, 11's fez, and 10's converse. String is unraveling all around her and the title to show the unraveling of time.
Book cover for Love Flushed (All Access #2) by Evie Mitchell Cover is bright pink and features an illustration of the couple sitting on top of a bunch of packaged toilet paper. She's wearing a "Crohn's Queen" tshirt. There's tp fluttering around in everywhere, and the cover says "Shit is about to go down..." A+ cover.
Book cover for To Ravish a Rogue (Dangerous Tides #6) by C.M. Nascosta Illustrations features a white woman with long wavy brown hair in a low-cut read dress in the embrace of a white man with a beard and long brown hair whose blue shirt is off his shoulders. They look like they're about to kiss. There is an ocean behind them and rope.
Book cover for A Lady for All Seasons by TJ Alexander Cover features a photo of a white woman with red curls looking away in side profile with a dangling pearl earring. The book title and author info looks to be on an invitation.
Book cover for Always the Almost by Edward Underhill Features an illustration of two boys sitting across from each other at a pizza parlor. They are both lanky teens.
Book cover for Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale by Herman Melville Features an illustration of a giant sperm whale breaching upwards right next to a little boat full of people trying to murder it.
Book cover for Uncle Bobby's Wedding by Sarah S. Brannen and Lucia Soto Cover features an illustration of two men in suits who are clearly a couple with a young girl in front of them in a yellow dress and carrying a bouquet of flowers. The couple is under a flower arch at their wedding in a garden with lots of flowers everywhere.
Book cover for Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher Cover is an illustration of a roadrunner with a rattlesnake in its mouth. The snake has its fangs barred and ready to strike. The background is a purples, oranges, and pink sky and those colors are reflected in the roadrunner's plumage. The snake is warm pinks and oranges.
Book cover for Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova Cover is a dark green gray painted background with a fuzzy black monster that kind of looks like a bat with glowing red eyes at the bottom in Thinker's pose. There are bright primary and secondary colored shapes in front.
Book cover for Cats Are Weird: And More Observations by Jeffrey Brown Illustrated cover features 6 boxes: 3 at the top and 3 at the bottom. In each box is a drawing of a cat being weird.
Book cover for This Winter (Osemanverse #3.5) by Alice Oseman Cover features an illustration of the Spring siblings: Charlie, Tori, and Oliver. They're hanging out on the front door step of the family's home with a string of Christmas lights around the doorframe.
Book cover for My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Cover features the illustration of a headshot of a Nigerian woman with dark skin wearing big round sunglasses with her hair in a wrap. In the sunglasses is the reflection of a hand wielding a knife like they're going to stab someone.
Book cover for Devil in Disguise (The Ravenels #7) by Lisa Kleypas Cover photo features a white woman with long brown hair that's slightly curled in a big peach dress. Her back is toward the camera, but she's turned so we can see her face. She's surrounded by flowers.
Book cover for Nick and Charlie (Osemanverse #8) by Alice Oseman Cover is yellow with the phrase "this is literally a love story" and drawings of photos falling down into an envelope with a heart on it.
Pothos leaves that are green and white (n'joy variety) rooting in water in a Woodinville distillery cup
Book cover for Hot Summer's Prey by Latrexa Nova Illustrated cover features a seafoam-green sea monster (think The Shape of Water) and a plus-sized woman in a purple bikini. They're in an embrace, and he's dipping her backward. They are surrounded by a golden frame with seashells. They are underwater, with some coral, a jellyfish, and a nudibranch.
Book cover for Batman: One Bad Day: Catwoman by G. Willow Wilson, Jamie McKelvie, and Clayton Cowles Illustrated cover features Catwoman with a sassy face and pose in her costume. She's holding onto some bird-shaped jewelry. Batman is casting a shadow behind her.
Book cover for Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson by Tourmaline The cover features a photo of Marsha, smiling and wearing her trademark flower crown, gold collar/necklace, and a pink off-the-shoulder dress. She looks stunning and joyful. In the foreground (bottom) and background are painted flowers in pastel pinks, reds, blues, oranges, and yellows.
Book cover for First Star I See Tonight (Chicago Stars #8) by Susan Elizabeth Phillips Background is a purple-blue nighttime sky with stars and a black evergreen tree skyline. There is a white curtain that's pulled back and a crystal chandelier up front.
Book cover for The Hoard of Savragora by David Gray The background is black, with an illustration of a bright red-and-yellow dragon curled around a human man, who is larger and shirtless, with chest hair and a beard. He's wearing tan pants and brown boots. They're clearly having fun together.
Book cover for DC Pride 2025 by various creators Features illustrations of the superhero Green Lantern (Alan Scott) with his cape flowing over the Blue Snowman, Green Lantern (Jo), Green Arrow (Connor Hawke), the Question, Midnighter, Harley Quinn, and Bunker.