Here’s the third Ohio library featured in Venusian Library Buzz. Wood County public library has super long patron hours (heaven!), serving the Bowling Green community. Find To Love Like Venus on the shelf under New Fiction.

Ohio has more surprises! After my appreciation post for Ohio the other day, I find 2 more libraries that carry hardcovers of To Love Like Venus! The next one is Richwood North Union Library. Richwood North Union Library posts fun social media clips. Check out To Love Like Venus, Richwood Village! See the full Venusian…

The city of Mesa, Arizona, has a commitment to sustainability, evident in their official city website. They have a designated Mesa Climate Action Plan (MCAP), a commitment to “improve social equity for a vibrant healthy future” and sustainability goals. With this focus of environmentalism and sustainability in mind, how wonderful that their public library has…

Kenosha Public Library in Wisconsin has a wonderful vision: “The Kenosha Community will be universally literate, civically engaged, and embrace multiple cultures and generations.” I love how reading, democracy and inclusivity is valued here as the foundation to achieving a better society. They have a copy of To Love Like Venus that they have, and…

Las Vegas-Clark County Library District has been “the recipient of three consecutive ALA Library of the Future Awards in 2022, 2023 & 2024 (the first library system to ever accomplish this)”. In visiting their website, the total vibe I get is this is the Mister Rogers of library personalities. Their tagline and motto? “Free to…

The Chautauqua Institution is a beautiful example of how, when an institution values the work of an artist; they don’t hold back in continued celebration and respect of that artist’s works. My time there was truly remarkable, and continues to be. Smith Memorial Library (Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System) has two copies of To Love Like Venus…

Old jokes used to introduce themselves with “So-and-so [a trio usually] walk into a bar…” Today I walked into a bookstore (leaving two outside to wait for me, so there’s the trio) to pick up a book I preordered a few months ago “Big Nobody” by Alex Kadis. Because the book sounded hysterical, it got…

This slide deck is more about the “what to do to get your book” than the “why”: just know that “unavailable” on publication day does not mean the book is actually unavailable. Text below. So you preordered an indie book. How actually receiving it sometimes works with online retailers. The Sudden Not-Available It’s publication day…

Big, big day. Author copy finally arrived from IngramSpark. Can I tell you how beautiful this book looks? How beautiful a job Baris Sehri did. How beautiful The Cosmic Lion (Lewelin Polanco) ‘s interiors look? We have some jacket and cover alignment issues we will try to tweak for the final (POD is tricky to nail. Plus we are…

image updated 1/7/2026 A debut novel in March and a story with a speculative detective agency (both novel and story about love). Plus a cheat sheet for all the other recent works beneath my wings. This, of course, doesn’t cover the zines and chapbooks I make in-between, when the mood strikes.

As the commercial stores shape your holiday mindset, always good reminders: you don’t need seasonal accessories for everything unless you enjoy seasonal everything and inhabit your joy. if you’re shopping, think about systems and not just end points. Does what I buy serve the greater good of a beneficial system? Very few mass produced items do this….

Get your ANDROMEDA zines and chapbooks on, now available at Word Up Bookstore! Excited that they now have my works. Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comunitaria2113 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10032 The Zine Menu How to Talk to Welli About Goya: A Broken Pencil Zine Award finalist at Canzine 2021! If you have a cursing grandma…

It started after an evening of an unforgettable CE5 session. I was peering into the Cretan sea at a restaurant having lunch when I got a nudge from the Speculative Detective Agency. I was supposed to have my phone off. Join us, the message said. Join you in speculative sleuthing? I responded. That’s not my…

As I’m gearing up for another big project, it’s also about looking back to see just how publication busy 2025 has been (EH technically was released Dec 15 2024, but hardcovers arrived in 2025). I love all these projects. They each represent community in various mediums: prose, comics, canvas work. From self publishing, to University…

Not Your Papi’s Utopia is now available at Ivan Pharmacy, located on 691 Columbus Avenue, New York, New York 10025, United States Between 93rd & 94th Street Why is this significant? Ivan was and is my family pharmacist. I went there as a kid. He has a dedicated section in his store for local authors….

Art remains a part of the human soul. Now available, the much needed: Not Your Papi’s Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope, with MouthFeel Press. I can’t wait to get my copy to dig into the stories here at a time when we need more visions of a better world. Find my story “The Event…

Some publications out this year, along with others available. More to come.

One week away from our publication date. Biblet, anyone? Here’s a fun way to learn more about the book in one place. Flip through some pages and read the full foreword by Dr. Frederick Luis Aldama. Get a sense of the original portraits. Dive into a full sequential art story. And check out that prose,…

Just arrived Event Horizon‘s F&Gs. If you are new to what these are, these are the “Folded & Gathered”, the books in their printed but unbound form. This is a picture of their folded signatures and covers (not affixed to their hardcovers yet). They just need their binding (corset as I think of it) to get…

New publication out in December. Find Event Horizon‘s “The Event Don Juan of Mycelia” in Not Your Papi’s Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope publishing with Mouthfeel Press, ending the trilogy of Latinx archive speculative fiction for this editorial team. Mouthfeel Press “is a Latinx, woman-owned press, created in the spirit of entrepreneurship, a love…

We took our next big step closer to our Kickstarter for Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back, my debut short story collection told in comics, prose, canvas work and photography… we made our Kickstarter prelaunch page public on the actual site of Kickstarter! This means the project is officially up on Kickstarter as ready…

Almost one month away from our Kickstarter campaig on 4/9/2024 and we’re so excited about sharing the trailers we have for Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back!  Our story-driven trailer is meant to excite readers with curiosity, with a narration of prose layered over comics in the collection that come together in story-unity. Are we in somebody’s…

A morning short short, written after breakfast coffee along the Aegean. Browsing an art gallery, on the way out, I happened to point out to a gentleman that I got a sense was part of the gallery, on a piece being, by the way, particularly stunning. “Why, thank you,” he said. I stopped in the…

Women in Comics Collective International (WinC) is print publishing the 1st 3 issues of their magazine this month. Full-of-heart editorial letters, prose, poetry, comics. I have a comic in #1 with Rafael Romeo Magat (51 Solstice). While we wait… reviews go a long way for a group doing great things: Uplifting women in comics, paying…

Find a new story of mine in Women in Comics’s March Equinox Issue “Blooming” released today. “Gumercinda’s Flower” is a quick bloom at 300 words, but contains a universe. Check out the issue’s fun comics, poetry and prose celebrating Spring. Digital available at their shop, Amazon Kindle and Global Comix. https://msha.ke/wincnyc/#links-6  

Today is Autumn Equinox, so what a cool day for my comic with Rafael Romeo Magat in WinC Magazine’s debut issue, Dear Summer, to be available on Comixology? Enjoy “51 Solstice” and a collection of other great comics that muse on summer.

At long last! Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology is now available at bookstores and libraries! Enjoy this stunning anthology. My story in it is “Jean”. Happy Launch Day to #SpeculativeFictionforDreamers, an anthology that took my breath away, as it did reviewers. Where to buy and borrow? Here’s a list of bookstores and libraries…

Excited to see Elsewhere Volume 2 available for purchase on Comixology now. You can find ” A Real Selfie” in here, by me and Seth Martel. From the website: Elsewhere Vol. 2 “Relax your body and breathe deeply, completely. Observe your thoughts and let them pass through your mind without clinging. Feel the air on…

You can now pre-order Speculative Fiction for Dreamers, which features my story, “Jean”. “Speculative Fiction for Dreamers brilliantly runs the gamut of visual, oral, and textual storytelling, creating magical wormholes that link Indigenous past to place-rooted present, imagined futures, and the abode of syncretic gods. These vital pieces resonate like entangled particles of ancestors and descendants,…

Now available for a free read! Andromeda, my comic with Seth Martel, is free on Mermaids Monthly. Dive in.

Another story is launched into orbit, this time on Kickstarter: Back Elsewhere Comics Anthology (Volume 2), and you get Seth Martel and my “A Real Selfie”, a spooky vacation quest five page comic, along with 250 pages of awesome comics by many creators. Because right now, all of us are dreaming of being…Elsewhere. This book…

Available for pre-order! Graphic Mundi‘s debut book for this new imprint from Penn State releases February 2021, and I’ve got two stories in it! “The comics in this collection have been generously donated by their creators. Proceeds from the sale of this volume are being donated by the publisher to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation…

Check out this wonderful review on Broken Frontier of the digital anthology Insider Art: 270 pages of comics, prose, crafts, recipes, games… by female and non-binary creators, where all proceeds go to female and non-binary comic retailers. Take a tour of the “House” that makes the anthology and see what makes this bargain of a…

Grab your beach gear and dive into my prose story “Little Island” in the bathroom of the house of Insider Art, a benefit comic-crafts-prose-cookbook anthology whose funds go to female and non-binary comic book retailers. BEAUTIFUL art for my story is by Ashley Ribblett. Available on Gumroad. Pay-what-you-can, suggested donation $10. Proceeds go to the…

Available now, the Kickstarter for the benefit comic anthology Heroes Need Masks that raises funds to buy PPE for healthcare workers, gives you a chance to thank a healthcare worker you know with their portrait, AND gifts you with a collection of comics to enjoy. Illustrator Seth Martel and I have a comic in this…

Grab your digital graffiti cans and dive into Episode 1 of DR163 on Webtoon.  A long-lost graffiti artist and trauma surgeon form an unlikely friendship when the magic of their hands turns them into midnight vigilantes. Aaron Guzman’s art is a magical scroll down a mind-bending story of a doctor in need of healing and the…