Why am I passionate about this?

Two people (or more!) who find a home in each other when they don't have a home in the world make my heart leap. I love romance, and I've been writing and drawing them professionally for over 20 years. I got my start writing and drawing sexy comics when I was out of college, my work has been featured in the Museum of Sex in NYC and various anthologies focused on queer and intersectional feminist stories about love and sex. I love stories about queer people, or outcasts, or people who don't quite understand themselves yet. 


I wrote...

Chester 5000

By Jess Fink,

Book cover of Chester 5000

What is my book about?

This is a romance set in the Victorian era. A struggling marriage between two people with very different needs leaves…

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The books I picked & why

Letters for Lucardo

By Otava Heikkilä,

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Jess Fink Why did I love this book?

This is a book I press to my heart. The art style, the sense of humor, and the facial expressions leave me kicking my feet every time I read it, and I’ve read it quite a few times.

There is poetry in the way the world slowly unfolds. There is mystery and darkness in the vampires and the world they’ve built, there is the pressure of the Night Court and the terrifying will of the god they worship. The softness between Lucardo and Ed feels so easy and true.

Letters for Lucardo

By Otava Heikkilä,

What is this book about?

Ed Fiedler is an aging scribe in a royal palace. Lucardo von Gishaupt is a forever-young aristocrat, and member of the mysterious and powerful Night Court. When the two develop feelings for one another, both are forced to contend with the culture shock of a mortal man's presence among the deathless.


The Lawrence Browne Affair

By Cat Sebastian,

Book cover of The Lawrence Browne Affair

Jess Fink Why did I love this book?

I love stories about outcasts, persistent f*ck-ups, people who’ve been told a story about themselves their whole lives that somewhere along the line they started to believe. I love when they find someone who’s been told a similar story, and they help each other to not believe in those stories anymore. 

The Lawrence Browne Affair

By Cat Sebastian,

What is this book about?

An earl hiding from his future . . .

Lawrence Browne, the Earl of Radnor, is mad. At least, that’s what he and most of the village believes. A brilliant scientist, he hides himself away in his family’s crumbling estate, unwilling to venture into the outside world. When an annoyingly handsome man arrives at Penkellis, claiming to be Lawrence’s new secretary, his carefully planned world is turned upside down.

A swindler haunted by his past . . .

Georgie Turner has made his life pretending to be anyone but himself. A swindler and con man, he can slip into an…


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Coyote Weather By Amanda Cockrell,

Coyote weather is the feral, hungry season, drought-stricken, and ready to catch fire. It’s 1967, and the American culture is violently remaking itself while the country is forcibly sending its young men to fight in a deeply unpopular war.

Jerry has stubbornly made no plans for the future because he…

The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal

By E.K. Weaver,

Book cover of The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal

Jess Fink Why did I love this book?

These are real people; they have to be because I’ve never read a book and felt more like I knew the characters in real life. The dialogue makes me feel like a teen riding in the backseat with friends, at a crossroads in life, flying by the seat of my pants. 

The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal

By E.K. Weaver,

What is this book about?

E.K. Weaver's critically-acclaimed road trip romance comic is collected here in this award-winning, commercially-successful omnibus edition. Less Than Epic tells the story of Amal (just out of the closet and freshly disowned by his parents) and TJ (a mysterious and eccentric vagrant) and their journey across the continental United States.


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Knife Skills By Wendy Church,

"Dizzying . . . Audiences who wished the TV series The Bear had made room for Russian mobsters are in for a treat" - Kirkus Reviews Starred Review

Sagarine Pfister is a great cook but has been blacklisted by almost every restaurant in Chicago. She gets her chance at Louie's,…

Book cover of Ruined

Jess Fink Why did I love this book?

There are so many lovely, soft moments in this book that I adore. Catherine blushed on the other side of a closed door, unable to make a decision. Best friends sitting so close, knowing each other’s secrets.

I love the subtle humor, the incredible warmth, and the depth of each character’s angst and heartache. 

Ruined

By Sarah Vaughn, Sarah Winifred Searle, Niki Smith

What is this book about?

The whole town is whispering about how Catherine Benson lost her virtue, though they can never agree on the details. Was it in the public garden? Or a moving carriage?

Only a truly desperate man would want her now - and that's exactly what Andrew Davener is. His family's estate is in disrepair, but Catherine's sizeable dowry could set it to rights.

After the two wed, Catherine finds herself inexplicably drawn to Andrew. But could falling in love with her husband tear her marriage apart? In this richly detailed Regency romance, duty and passion collide in a slow-burn tale of…


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Chester 5000

By Jess Fink,

Book cover of Chester 5000

What is my book about?

This is a romance set in the Victorian era. A struggling marriage between two people with very different needs leaves Priscilla lonely and unfulfilled. To solve this problem, Robert, the busy inventor, creates a robotic lover for his wife.

She finds companionship in Chester’s attentive arms, but her husband’s jealousy soon rears its ugly head when he suspects she might actually love the robot. Hand-painted in black and white with gorgeous Art Nouveau details. Book one in a two-part series, winner of the 2017 Ignatz award for best series. 

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