The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage began as a single comic strip for Ada Lovelace Day and was not intended to be a book.
The comic began as a single comic strip for Ada Lovelace Day, a celebration of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Disliking the fact that both Babbage and Lovelace died with their life work incomplete, Padua created a fictional ending for the strip, then found that "a lot of people saw it and thought that I was actually going to do a comic, which I had no intention of doing. 
