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BEGINNINGS START AT THE MIDDLE

Good stories often start midway.

SIMPLICITY TOWARDS COMPLEXITY

How a press starts out. How a story progresses.

DENSITY

We are a small press with layered content.

ABOUT JANUS POINT PRESS

We’re a small publishing imprint and US registered trademark of Zoe Health, LLC. The press serves as a platform for selected prose and comics of author Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos and as a boutique publisher to artist commissioned pieces, artist’s books and print collections. We support the craftmanship of bookmaking. Janus Point also serves as a creative hub for artists.

What is “Janus Point”

“The Janus Point” is a term coined by physicist Julian Barbour. In his theory of time it’s described as “a unique point of minimal size in the history of the universe”, the Big Bang moment when time arrowed out in two directions with increasing complexity of matter. The Janus Point can be visualized as this middle point between the two, a shared beginning. The name references the Roman god Janus who looks out to the past and the future, and who is associated with beginnings and transitions. The two sides of the Janus Point are not mirror images of one another.

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WATCH OUT FOR WORMHOLES ®

Those tunnels that take you through the fabric of spacetime like a fast-speed highway. For some characters, they are repeated trips to the past, sometimes to bring a seed to the future, Sankofa style. They are also a danger to the book world. Watch out for wormholes ® is a fair warning from a press: maintain your books well, for those little holes you see in their pages are the tunnels other species have made while escaping the paper universe of words, the boundaries of a book. A good book is a wormhole, whether paper or pixels. Ask where it has taken you.

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WHO

STEPHANIE NINA PITSIRILOS

Stephanie’s critically acclaimed work can be found in numerous anthologies, magazines, co-creator digital mediums, and creator-owned platforms. She’s the recipient of the 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize, and is a graduate of Columbia University (MPH) and The University of Michigan (BS). Visit her author website for a full biography.

CYRUS AMIR BOQUÍN

Cyrus is principally a community physician activist concentrating his healing work within the immigrant and diverse communities of Manhattan. A Michigan-raised child of Honduran and Iranian heritage, he majored in Russian literature at Harvard and counts graffiti stylewriting, Taller Gráfica Popular and contemporary Latin American xilografía, Black printmaking greatness and Persian miniaturist art among his principal inspirations in art and fine press collecting and collaboration. Chief among his numerous artistic curations and collaborations over the past 20+ years are major University and medical campus events involving: acclaimed and Pulitzer Prize winning authors, playwrights, musicians, poets and legendary stylewriters.

StephCy — Portrait art by ADRIÁN VIAJERO ROMÁN and JOHN VASQUEZ MEJIAS.

POSTS

An Incredible BookCon 2026

Absolutely incredible time as an author in Indie Alley at the return of BooKCon at the Javits Center this past weekend. The fandom for book culture and reading was palpable, visible and lived. To Love Like Venus was the star of my table, with some lucky readers getting free copies from Bookfinity, highlighting me as an indie ... Read more

April 24, 2026

Available at New York Public Library

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/12573073Read more

March 7, 2026

Venus is here

Happy Publication Day to Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos’ 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 ... Read more

March 2, 2026

Limited artists’ book with silk book sleeve & curated arts and reading list

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STORY

Haunting memories and buried desire are resurrected by the funeral song as war binds the lives of a widow, refugee, and partisan soldier fighting for the liberation of Greece. The Funeral Singer is a story with an Einstein-Rosen Bridge between 1922 Anatolia and 1944 Greece. The Funeral Singer is a story not only of historical events and the weight carried by survivors; it’s also the personal narratives that still play out as you are a pawn living through history. It is a story of sexual desire, resistance, and female liberation. It’s a story of a bird. A 2015 Kore Press Semifinalist.

SHIPPING/CUSTOMIZED BOX

Available for gifting. Each US order comes in a tailored Janus Point Press customized box which is “100% compostable or curbside recyclable and 100% FSC Certified”. Box and tissue paper have an optional light scent of frankincense and myrrh for story experience. Handwritten note included. Inquire about multiple orders and corporate gifts.

CRAFT & PHYSICAL EXPERIENCE

The book measures approximately 4X6 inches with a black sturdy softcover, and silver foil stamping of a bird cage with a shadowed bird trapped behind its bars. Title and author name also foil stamped in silver on spine. Thirty-seven ash-gray pages of story nestled between translucent pearl paper. Epigraph, About The Author and Colophon pages. The book is tucked inside a book sleeve (a delicate small clutch) made from a lapis lazuli silk blend fabric by Narciso Rodriguez and pearl button, all sewn with doctorly love by Cyrus Amir Boquín. The details of the sleeve are part of the reading experience as is the optional-scented packaging of frankincense and myrrh. Touch and scent accompany the reader’s sensory journey. A curated reading and arts list is included, introducing works (not affiliated with Janus Point Press) that provide historical and cultural background featured in The Funeral Singer. This includes related poetry, prose, music, artwork and film, with themes of: Smyrna, funeral singers, Rembetiko, female Greek resistance fighters during WWII and the subsequent civil war, death rituals of Greece. Each order is ceremoniously prepared. Printed local in Poughkeepsie New York. Cover & design by Seth Christian Martel.

Published September 13th, 2022, NYC.

ISBN 978-1-958077-00-9