“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…

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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…

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Starred Kirkus Review for To Love Like Venus

“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…

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Happy Anniversary Event Horizon

Today’s the anniversary of the publication date of Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back. Happy Anniversary to us! Swipe through to see what we accomplished this year and the human artists and professors behind this really special book that is: -a short story collection of prose -an anthology of comics -an artbook with original…

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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…

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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”.

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….

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Another “Project We Love” meets its goal: you

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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Watch Out For Wormholes- Latinx Visions

“LATINX VISIONS: ONE PLANET – MANY WORLDS” An online conference on Latinx speculative fiction sponsored by the Chicana/o Studies Department of the University of New Mexico. No registration fee. Stephanie’s workshop: “Watch out for wormholes: ANCHORED PASTS AND DYNAMIC DUOS IN GRAPHIC STORYTELLING” Wednesday, November 5: 12:45PM-1:45PM MOUNTAIN TIME 2:45PM-3:45PM EST TIME Room 2: Writing Workshop:…

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