The person behind the world
I’m Silent Silver. I write The Secrets of Silver Clouds, and I’m building a fantasy universe rooted in British streets, music and the visual energy of anime.
01 / Before the book
I started sharing Silver Clouds while I was homeless. At first, it was characters, rough designs and places from the world I was building. I put them on TikTok and Instagram, and people began turning up to watch it take shape.
Then they started asking for the book.
So I finished it. The people who had followed those early ideas helped me crowdfund the first release.
Watch “A Silent Silver Story” ↗
02 / The first lines
Goaden. Chill. Two of my early digital drawings, from when I was finding the faces of Silver Clouds.
03 / The readers
I sent the book to a BookTok reviewer without really expecting her to read it. When she told me her review was up, I set up a camera to record my reaction.
I expected a mixture of praise and criticism. Instead, I watched someone connect with this world far more deeply than I had imagined.
5 July 2024 · TikTok
My duet with book reviewer Heather-Christine. Her review and my response appear together in the video.
300k-view review
Creator-reported milestone, 16 September 2026, for the linked review-reaction video. This is not a live counter.
An early reader’s reaction
“This book made me laugh, cry, scream”
The book was still in beta when this reader recorded her first-ever book review. She had printed a copy so she could mark the moments she loved.
Excerpt from the reader’s video, shared by Silent Silver on LinkedIn.
04 / What comes next
My ambition is to build a major British fantasy universe: anime-influenced, rooted in our streets and music, dark, funny and unafraid of its own rough edges.
Books, games, comics, animation—different ways into a world with enough life to hold them. I call that approach Animantasy.
The book, illustrated episode, Codex and browser experiences are already doors into it. An action RPG with Xtended Realities is in development. The audience that helped bring the first book into existence is still part of what comes next.
An open invitation
Start with the free first episode, spend a shift at the Sanctuary Bar, or talk to me about the next stage.