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…
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Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: Cocinas…
Chicago Public Library has included From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides a Latinx Comics Anthology in its 2025 Best of the Best list. Congrats to all the authors, editors and Ohio State Press. https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/display/200121216/2873965107 My graphic prose story in this with Aaron Guzman is another Nova Odyssey adventure. “It Ain’t This But That”.
Upcoming Titles 2026 and more
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.
Shopping with heart
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….
Another “Project We Love” meets its goal: you
To Love Like Venus being funded means another successful Kickstarter. That makes three. All designated “Project We Love.”All different genres. Community benefit zine on how to take money from donors. Zine100.A collection of stories that bend genre, as well as spacetime. Event Horizon.A literary romance set in a cyberpunk future. To Love Like Venus. The…
Watch Out For Wormholes- Latinx Visions
“LATINX VISIONS: ONE PLANET – MANY WORLDS” An online conference on Latinx speculative fiction sponsored by the Chicana/o Studies Department of the University of New Mexico. No registration fee. Stephanie’s workshop: “Watch out for wormholes: ANCHORED PASTS AND DYNAMIC DUOS IN GRAPHIC STORYTELLING” Wednesday, November 5: 12:45PM-1:45PM MOUNTAIN TIME 2:45PM-3:45PM EST TIME Room 2: Writing Workshop:…
Crossing Genres in Crowdfunded Publishing Tues 10/14
Hosted by Patrick Lugo of Kids Comics Unite “From Zines to Everything!Award winning author and publisher Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos will be completing her third Kickstarter campaign in a whole new publishing genre! We’ll talk about how starting with crowdfunding a Zine project propelled her into a diverse range of publishing & self-publishing endeavors” Time: Oct…
Now available at Word Up Bookstore
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…
Table Visit! La Feria 2025, the Latinx Project at NYU
A walk through of the Janus Point Press table at the Latinx Project at NYU’s 2nd annual “La Feria”. This event was so wonderfully organized and an example of how academic institutions can partner with the indie arts community to bridge artists to the institutional world and the public. It’s also a wonderful commitment to…
Making the intangible tangible
How does one pitch a book on crowdfunding Kickstarter when tabling at an in-person event? Make the intangible tangible. Pick it up, open it, surprise! You are invited to back To Love Like Venus. http://kck.st/46JUHML Come see me and Janus Point Press at table 11 tomorrow at NYU’s LatinxProject La Feria Print and Media fair,…
