To The Heart of It

Had a wonderful time at the Czech Center celebrating the English-language launch of Heartcore (Graphic Mundi, 2025), the acclaimed new graphic novel by Štěpánka Jislová, originally published in Czech as Srdcovka (Paseka, 2023), and sharing the stage to talk about matters of the heart via my Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back. Part of the 2025 Brooklyn Book Festival…

Live on Kickstarter! To Love Like Venus

And we are LIVE! Just launched, the Kickstarter of To Love Like Venus. To Love Like Venus is a literary novel in a near-future cyberpunk setting that’s all about love, relationships and how we cope with its heights and disappointments, whether partner, ideals or the symbols that become our children. It’s me publishing it in under my…

Speculative Sleuthing

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…

To The Heart of It

I’m an author at this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival, and here’s your opportunity to come see me in conversation of love! Convo on my own works will orbit Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back and works that center the heart and desire, with Heartcore in mind. A great way to also launch To Love…

Why, hello beautiful

καλό μήνα! Happy new month, and also a happy name day on Sept 1st for Aphrodite, aka Venus. Yesterday I did a cover reveal on the prelaunch page of my upcoming project on Kickstarter: To Love Like Venus, a literary novel in a near-future cyberpunk setting that’s all about love, relationships and how we cope…

La Feria at NYU The Latinx Project

Janus Point Press is thrilled to be an exhibitor at this year’s La Feria print media fair at NYU. Saturday, September 27 11am-5pm. Free. You’ll find an array of artists work displayed in various mediums, including original silkscreen prints, as well as my own publications under my imprint, and works I have out with academic…

Sign-up for Launch. We’re going to Venus

Going at it again, the thrill of a Kickstarter, where I meet my readers. This time, a novel. Alita’s a whiz at helping AI extract marketable trends from human sex behavior datasets. How good is she at love? To Love Like Venus is a literary glimpse into a near future of tech-fueled human sexuality, environmental…

Coming Soon, an end to Summer Blues

Got the “summer is ending” blues?Don’t despair. Summer never ends on Venus. Here we go again. Uploading the preorder Kickstarter campaign tomorrow, prelaunch link will go live just a few weeks before Sept 15th. Which I guess is soon. This is a bookmark (literally). Cover art (and trailer) is coming early September. Stay tuned. A…

2025 Releases

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…

Publishers Weekly Review: Cocinas

Another wonderful review for this comics anthology I am in with cousin Aaron GuzmanFrom Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides: A Latinx Comics Anthology published by @ohiostatepress https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780814259481 Our story, the return of Nova Odyssey, is “It Ain’t This But That”. Preorder, comes out August 2025!