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….
Category: New Release
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…
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!
Plant Based Healing: Not Your Papi’s Utopia
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….
