the book announcement

that's right, y'all.

It’s finally official, y’all.

My debut graphic memoir, titled ACE OF HEARTS: LESSONS IN LOVE FROM AN ASEXUAL GIRL, will be published in February 2026 by Street Noise Books.

Here’s the beautiful Publishers Marketplace announcement that made it *official* official, in all its glory…

I already outlined some of my sappy feelings about this career development in this Instagram post, but I wanted to take an opportunity in this post to reveal a little more about the book and its subject matter.

(If you’re new here, hi, I’m cooklin, and I realized I was asexual at age 24. To learn more about asexuality and what it means, this is a very helpful link!)

The idea for ACE OF HEARTS came to me in 2022, shortly after I’d moved to Vancouver, WA from Los Angeles. I had experienced something that really rocked my emotions and had me thinking deeply about love and what it meant to me. As I went over my life and how my relationship with love has developed over the years, I realized how profoundly love, as I’ve experienced it, has been shaped by my asexuality.

I spent time mapping it all out. The consideration at the center of it all was obvious. What does it mean to love another person when you’re asexual?

This question could never be answered the same way universally. For me, however, the path to answering that question, even before I had a word for what I was, was lined with a crippling sense of inadequacy and a notion that love was just not something I could ever experience unless I fixed whatever was “wrong” with me. ACE OF HEARTS explores these feelings by not only examining the maladaptive behaviors of my youth but by looking at the circumstances in my life that made these behaviors seem justified.

In other words, this is a book about asexuality, but it’s also a close examination of love, both in its purest and its most bastardized forms.

Thank you all for being subscribers to this newsletter, and a bonus thank you to anyone who has ever bought or interacted with my already existing work on asexuality. It is only because of the popularity of my work on asexuality that I had the confidence to move forward with this subject in particular, and, well, it looks like it’s paying off!

Speaking of my work on asexuality… My shop is currently closed, BUT, my asexual zines are now being printed and sold by Microcosm Publishing!

If you want something to tie you over while you wait for ACE OF HEARTS, click here to buy copies of the Microcosm editions of ASEXUAL THINGS I DID BEFORE REALIZING I WAS ASEXUAL and ASEXUAL THINGS I DO NOW THAT I KNOW I’M ASEXUAL!

That is all for now <3

xoxo,
cooklin