To Love Like Venus being funded means another successful Kickstarter. That makes three. All designated “Project We Love.”All different genres. Community benefit zine on how to take money from donors. Zine100.A collection of stories that bend genre, as well as spacetime. Event Horizon.A literary romance set in a cyberpunk future. To Love Like Venus. The…
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Making the intangible tangible
How does one pitch a book on crowdfunding Kickstarter when tabling at an in-person event? Make the intangible tangible. Pick it up, open it, surprise! You are invited to back To Love Like Venus. http://kck.st/46JUHML Come see me and Janus Point Press at table 11 tomorrow at NYU’s LatinxProject La Feria Print and Media fair,…
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…
Summer Life
Summer vibes, on a world that is (officially confirmed) to be spinning faster. Some of us are really feeling it. Slip into (or out of) something more comfortable. Now available to the public, samples of some of the stories in Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back (and one also in Not Your Papi’s Utopia)…
Another great Kirkus Review
Kirkus Reviews enjoyed the upcoming anthology I have a story in with Aaron Guzman: “FROM COCINAS TO LUCHA LIBRE RINGSIDES A LATINX COMICS ANTHOLOGY From the Latinographix series edited by Frederick Luis Aldama & Angela M. Sánchez ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 13, 2025 Many readers will find a story that resonates with them in this broad-ranging anthology.” https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/frederick-luis-aldama/from-cocinas-to-lucha-libre-ringsides So good,…
Human Authored
Event Horizon got its Human Authored stamp from the Authors Guild, because all stories are written by a human. And all art was commissioned or are reprints by human artists. Welcome the new organic sticker for books (no longer just for eggs).
Find Jean at El Museo del Barrio Gift Shop
Happy to bring Latinx speculative fiction and sci-fi works to El Museo del Barrio in NYC, starting with Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology featuring my award-winning “Jean”. If you are on the East side or want a power walk to the East side, do hop over to 104th Street and 5th Avenue and grab a…
Community Copies Available: Zine100
Extending a humble resource to artists or community groups affected by the fires in LA. I have community copies available of the zine I Kickstarted a few years ago in collab with I LOVE MY HOOD and summary postcards by artist Patrick Lugo which offers guidance on being smart when accepting grants from outside organizations,…
Happy Publication Day Event Horizon
It wasn’t until reading the Wikipedia page for the movie, Never on Sunday, did I realize two modern great works of Greek literature and cinema tackle this theme of clash of intellectualism and zest for life between characters: this movie, and Zorba the Greek. If Zorba showed bookworm writer how to live a little by…
Archives of Intellect, Tools Forward
Here are some books I pulled out to display in our public school library for kids to process and empower themselves in fortitude in how to live in a world of fading democracy and hate. To my own kids I say learn about the machine that is being dismantled and how, and never let go…
