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The best sign that a story has found its people is when they start reaching for a pencil.
If MATELDA: In Silence We Forgive got under your skin — if you keep picturing a certain look across a candlelit table, or the way a room falls quiet when one particular woman walks in — then this is your invitation. Draw it. Paint it. Bring the Salvatore world to life in your own hand.
You do not need permission to love a story out loud. But here it is anyway.
What to create
Anything the book stirred in you is fair game. There are no rules, only feeling — whether you work in graphite, digital brushes, watercolor, or collage. If it captures a mood from the world of MATELDA, it belongs.
Prompts to get you started
- A portrait of poise. Matelda in a moment of stillness, saying everything with her eyes.
- Loyalty, illustrated. Sam standing her ground for the people she loves.
- The empty chair. Mia’s absence, felt rather than seen.
- Candlelight and tension. A Salvatore dinner where no one is saying the real thing.
- The moment it breaks. Your interpretation of a silence finally ending.
Where to share it
Post your work with a tag so other readers can find it, and submit it to the MATELDA fan-art gallery, where reader creations are gathered and celebrated. Seeing these characters through your eyes is one of the great joys of putting a book into the world.
Need a refresher first? MATELDA
Reread a favorite scene, then let it fuel your art. Every drawing starts with a story that stayed with you.
Visit the fan-art gallery at Lesbian Romance Reads »
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By Jossef S.
Matelda: In Silence We Forgive — a slow-burn sapphic mafia romance. Age gap, enemies to lovers, guaranteed happy ending.
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