Packing The Funeral Singer

I love packing The Funeral Singer. It’s a ceremony. It’s an experience of touch (textured silk), sight (pearl button, feather patterns on lapis lazuli clutch with gold threads), and smell (frankincense and myrrh oil) for the reader. It’s sound: music experienced through words (and a curated outside arts list). It’s a world packed into short…

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Printing Update: F and Gs (Proofs) of Event Horizon

Just arrived Event Horizon‘s F&Gs. If you are new to what these are, these are the “Folded & Gathered”, the books in their printed but unbound form. This is a picture of their folded signatures and covers (not affixed to their hardcovers yet). They just need their binding (corset as I think of it) to get…

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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…

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Review Count: Event Horizon

Almost month away from our official publication date, a recap of some of the stellar reviews for Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back. “Compelling scientific and emotional explorations that raise the question: What awaits us when we cross the line?… Pitsirilos has assembled an eclectic roster of creators from many different mediums, resulting in…

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Readers Digest Recommends

Nice to see on this new list by Reader’s Digest “36 Must-Read Books by Contemporary Hispanic Authors” published this month Speculative Fiction for Dreamers. My story “Jean” is in it highlighting the diasporic Puerto Rican experience here a result of Operation Bootstrap on the island. Jean won the 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize–currently this isn’t listed…

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Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes…

It’s that time when I get inquiries for corporate and professional holiday gifting of my artists’ book, The Funeral Singer. Last year, a client let me know how his clients kept calling and leaving voicemails at how moved they were to receive such a special, personalized gift. Sometimes a can of nuts with your company…

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Map Making & Family on PBS Kids Alma’s Way

Super excited to see the PBS Kids segment we recorded for the adorable show, Alma’s Way has aired. In this 8 minute clip, Mapping Memories, find me with my mom’s hat on (you’ll hear my volunteer parent librarian fill-in Mrs. Peanut Butter voice here, too!) talking about what Central Park means to us, the fun…

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Not Your Papi’s Utopia

New publication out in December. Find Event Horizon‘s “The Event Don Juan of Mycelia” in Not Your Papi’s Utopia: Latinx Visions of Radical Hope publishing with Mouthfeel Press, ending the trilogy of Latinx archive speculative fiction for this editorial team. Mouthfeel Press “is a Latinx, woman-owned press, created in the spirit of entrepreneurship, a love…

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Bodega Dreams Author Ernesto Quiñonez weighs in on Event Horizon

It’s a warm feeling to have an author, whose works are beloved to you, read your own work, show absolute enthusiasm on your book’s concept and method in publishing, and then to hear the joy he took in reading it. Read Bodega Dreams author Ernesto Quiñonez’s reaction to Event Horizon, a blurb preceded by “…this…

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