Talking through the Latino a/x/e representation in the book Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back (Janus Point Press, 2024). From the writer and co-publisher (author Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos), the book designer, the reviewers, the academics who wrote the introductions, the artists who bring these stories to visual life and the themes of the stories…
Tag: literaryfiction
The Works of Alfredo Véa
Dive into the wonderful and masterful works of author Alfredo Véa. You should firstly do this if you like quality literary fiction. We are also entering Hispanic Heritage Month and October is Filipino American History month, a perfect crossover. Véa’s works employ comic book realism (literary fiction that exercises an evolution of Latin American magical…
On Tropes, Themes and Libraries
Clip from my longer read of the novel To Love Like Venus, where I highlight some of the larger themes of the book, which partially takes place in Greece in the near future 2050s and includes modern day concerns of impact of climate change, unsustainable tourism and the risk of unchecked foreign buyouts. While being…
The BookLife Prize
Read the Critic’s Report of To Love Like Venus, provided by Publishers Weekly’s The Booklife Prize. These reports are the initial stage of assessing books for consideration for their annual prizes in Fiction and Non-Fiction. It is a nice assessment of the book. After writing a book, it takes a different level of either courage…
Selling out at The Corner Bookstore
Thanks for buying out all the copies of To Love Like Venus at The Corner Bookstore on UES, Manhattan within a few weeks! They are ordering more, so reserve your copy. Also know if you are into author signatures, this store has an abundance of new releases signed by acclaimed authors.
Getting over the Heebie-Jeebies about buying a Self-Published or Indie Book
Got the Heebie-Jeebies about buying a Self-Published or Indie Book? Slide through to learn some things about how you can be a curator of your own book tastes and join the growing crowd excited about adding Indie books to their home (and local) libraries. That includes you, literary fiction. See you soon at BookCon Indie…
Venus is here
Happy Publication Day to my debut novel, To Love Like Venus. Dream yourself into a future NYC of whirling roller-discos and sex robots, sunny Greek islands, and a fight for love while the world is on the brink. Trip to Venus included. Maybe you have literary fiction tendencies? Then: To Love Like Venus is a literary…
Preorders Available
Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back had a stellar Kickstarter launch. If you missed it, now’s the time to preorder your copies of a book that bends genre, not to mention spacetime. You’ll find all three cover variants of the book (Karen S. Darboe, Armando Ramirez, BlusterOne, minus the Kickstarter exclusive digital variants), and…
