“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…
Category: New Release
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…
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…
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…
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…
