To Love Like Venus is available at New York Public Library! Available in ebook on their website and Libby app. Check it out! Maybe with enough demand we can get them a hardcover. https://nypl.overdrive.com/media/12573073
Category: Press
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.
A Publishers Weekly BookLife Featured Indie Romance
Publishers Weekly selected To Love Like Venus to be featured in the BookLife’s Indie Romance. I explore the book’s Venusian prompt in this brief author statement. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/pw-select/article/99754-indie-spotlight-february-2026.html
A featured Ingram’s Indie Early Buzz for March releases
It’s great to keep getting messages like number one book trending in Literary Fiction and two in Sci-fi Cyberpunk in IngramSpark and today’s news that To Love Like Venus is featured in Ingram’s Indie Early Buzz catalog for March releases!
Publishing for Minnesota
Some publishing folks are organizing a Publishing for Minnesota auction. From their IG: “We are a group of authors, illustrators, agents, and editors who believe the time is now for collective action. In response to ongoing ICE raids and federal actions causing harm to immigrant communities and our neighbors across the country, we are organizing…
See you at BookCon 2026
Will be strutting my literary stuff at BookCon in NYC Javits Center April 18th and 19th. The NYCC of prose! More to come, but I’ll be tabling at Indie Alley under my imprint Janus Point Press. You’ll find not only my works (like debut novel To Love Like Venus) but also art by renowned graffiti…
“A radical, sex-positive exploration…”
Author Ivelisse Rodriguez on To Love Like Venus: “A radical, sex-positive exploration of the necessity for love with sex. Even in the future, this is the ongoing, pivotal question we must answer for ourselves. To Love Like Venus though, shows us that that question can also obfuscate all the ways we really love.”— Ivelisse Rodriguez, author…
2025 Lydia García Author Fund Awardees
Sharing The Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO) announcement of the recipients of the Lydia Garcia Author Fund that I founded in honor of my mother. She was Lydia Pitsirilos in her adult married life, but this grant speaks to her firstly as a young girl. Congratulations to these wonderful writers announced (visit their post…
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”.
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!
