Happy Publication Day to my debut novel, To Love Like Venus. Dream yourself into a future NYC of whirling roller-discos and sex robots, sunny Greek islands, and a fight for love while the world is on the brink. Trip to Venus included. Maybe you have literary fiction tendencies? Then: To Love Like Venus is a literary…
Category: New Release
So you preordered an indie book
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…
A Richland Library Staff Pick
Exciting to see To Love Like Venus under the coming-soon-for-adults Staff Pick list at Richland Library in South Carolina. Reserve your copy.
Starred Kirkus Review for To Love Like Venus
“A scintillating modern love story that will leave a lasting impression… Pitsirilos has crafted a compelling exploration of what it means to be human, weaving together themes of artificial intelligence, environmental degradation, mother-son relationships, and the difficulty of modern love.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Honored to have gotten this starred review by Kirkus Reviews for…
Author Proof Arrives
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…
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….
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…
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…
