Month: March 2025

I’m so pleased to finally reveal the cover for Mary Robinette Kowal’s SILENT SPACES, a collection of short stories in the Lady Astronaut Universe.

It was such an adventure reading the stories in this collection and falling in love with these characters. When approaching an illustration project, I like to let emotional moments speak to me as I read. It’s always my goal to capture the emotional resonance of the story. This particular illustration is meant to accompany The Lady Astronaut of Mars. I hope you’ll pick up the book and find out why.

Thank you so much to Mary Robinette for trusting me with your world!

“To die as lovers may–to die together, so that they may live together. Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don’t you see–each with their particular propensities, necessities, and structure.

You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me and still come with me, hating me through death and after. Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood.”