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March 16, 2024

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Cover Variants for Event Horizon Revealed

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Those who missed our recent newsletter, we have…

Surprise! Cover Variants for Event Horizon!!
In addition to our lead cover by Karen S. Darboe, in the spirit of multiverses, parallel universes and comic book culture: we have two additional cover variants to make three versions of hardcover by an electric team of artists, each offering something special! Some are limited prints, and Kickstarter backers have exclusive access to grab them first.

Our main Karen S. Darboe cover is hardcover with foil stamping to accentuate the yellow-gold hued drip lines of being “spaghettified” by a black hole and their luminous accretion disks that swirl around them.

The Armando Ramirez-Galen Ihlenfeldt hardcover offers blue and white electrified customized endpapers in both print & digital.

The BLUSTERONE hardcover is a limited print run of 100, featuring art from original commissioned canvas work (30” X 20” ACRYLIC AND BLACK GESSO ON CANVAS) printed on textured paper for the feel of a canvas work. The style-writing GoodStrange vibe of the canvas art of this unconventional cover paired with its texture makes this the artists’ book of the Event Horizon collection.

Less than one month away for going live on Kickstarter. You can sign up for book swag (stickers with slick art) by registering for prelaunch .

januspointpress.com/eventhorizon

So you can like it like that, and that and that.

Thanks to our book designer Aaron Guzman who is responsible for these digital mockups.

March 2, 2024

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Event Horizon trailers are out in space

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Almost one month away from our Kickstarter campaign on 4/9/2024 and we’re so excited about sharing the trailers we have for Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back!  Our story-driven trailer is meant to excite readers with curiosity, with a narration of prose layered over comics in the collection that come together in story-unity. Are we in somebody’s living room? Are we by the Mediterranean sea? Is this even Earth?! Goodness, is it space? It’s all of there and that. Ah, the joys of singularities.

https://youtu.be/LqnWw4ZvBHE

 

Are you making a movie?

Our friends and circles ask us this question, understandably, because maybe book trailers aren’t so common, or specifically trailers that utilize comic work and illustrations in such an animated way.  We aren’t selling you a movie: you are being teased to read a book (a very good book), and so here is our concept-driven video that walks you through exactly what this genre and medium bending book is all about. The who’s and how’s.

https://youtu.be/SlKMiT_7Z5U

 

Be sure you’re registered for launch notification to give us that needed momentum for a strong Kickstarter start, and to grab some stickers on your way to the

January 25, 2024

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Gracias Latina Surge!

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Uplifting author conversations with a panel hosted by Latina Surge. Among the topics, Stephanie shared her motivation on writing Event Horizon, the book she wanted to write 20 years ago but needed the journey to get there. Listen to the recording here of this well curated panel of different genre authors. Stephanie comes in around 44 minutes.

 

January 20, 2024

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Author Event Introducing Event Horizon

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Get introduced to Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back in our first interview with the event that helped us with our cover reveal, via LatinaSurge!

“We will celebrate the literary works in a sequenced marathon interview, author to author, from 7:30pm to 9:15pm ET on January 23rd of published and award-winning Latine authors : Valeria Aloe – Uncolonized Latinas Paul Sangillo, Esq. – The Golden Prison Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos – Event Horizon Refugio A. Atilano – The Latino Leadership Playbook”

(no registration required)

https://www.linkedin.com/events/latineauthormarathonevent-latin7153198401323429889/theater

January 19, 2024

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Cover Reveal Event Horizon

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At long last, the delight of sharing our lead cover for Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back. Karen S. Darboe’s cover captures so much of the female voice, Stephanie’s voice, in this book.

We hope you join us for an April 9th Kickstarter launch–the crowdfunding that will spark Even Horizon into the world, with exclusives to early backers. It’s a bit away for you (not for us organizing it), but we still have lots of fun things to share as we jump to the next black hole in our journey. Read more about this collection.

Pre-register to be notified of our launch in April and you get free stickers with stunning art with your pledge. https://januspointpress.com/eventhorizon/

January 16, 2024

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Cover Reveal & Launch Page for Event Horizon

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We’re doing a cover reveal for Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back! In true Janus fashion, it’s happening in the future, but we in the past are trying to catch up to it. The cover is making its debut at an upcoming event Stephanie is a panelist on with the non-profit Latina Surge. While it begins to circulate in social media our Instagram page is doing a striptease of its own with it on our spacetime grid there. How can you play along?

  1. Visit our Event Horizon sign up page, now live on Janus Point Press! Enter to be notified of our crowdfunding Kickstarter launch for some book swag. Anyone who pre-registers gets additional free stickers of Event Horizon’s stunning art with their Kickstarter campaign pledge.
  2. First astronaut to spot the cover of Event Horizon on social media (tag us on IG @januspoint.press or via Stephanie on multiple platforms as @ TheNinaGalaxy) gets a free book cover poster by Karen S. Darboe. Next lucky two winners get some stickers.

Happy space hunting. Watch out for black holes (close cousin to, if not the same thing as, wormholes).

September 8, 2023

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Coming Soon! Jean, Janus & Comic Book Realism

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We’re happy to share that we’ll be releasing Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos’s August 10th 2022 lecture “Jean, Janus & Comic Book Realism” delivered at the Chautauqua Institution upon receiving the Janus Prize, in both chapbook and ebook form. Chock-full of craft, comic book realism, family history, historical notes for Puerto Rico and Nuyorico, and astrophysics from a fangirl–the lecture is an exploration of literary craft and labels that exist within, and in defiance of, the eye of an observer.

While weaving in and out of what is fiction and what is family memoir in one particular story, the lecture also demonstrates pop culture as a new modern myth in language and experience, the vehicle of science fiction in mediums of comics and prose, and different faucets of marginalization, including in publishing, with a particular focus on the Latino/a/x/e and Puerto Rican/Nuyorican experience.

Great for classroom reads of “Jean”, those with an interest in Latinx literature, and fans of small press and chapbooks.

This printed version includes reference notes for cited works and pop culture, much asked for at Chautauqua.

Publishing October 2023.

Chapbook: ISBN 978-1-958077-05-4

Ebook (pdf): ISBN 978-1-958077-06-1

 

Curious? You can view the recorded lecture on youtube.

 

Janus god cart by Aaron Guzman

Spot illustrations by ANDROMEDA

Book Design Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos

August 18, 2023

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8 Singularities of Summer

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An artists’ book. A chapbook. Trademarks. An upcoming collection of prose, comics, canvas work and photography that all come together as a singularity. Our latest newsletter is a look at what we’ve been up to, and what’s on the horizon for Janus Point Press. Written by humans, not AI.

SOME REVEALS on who is joining us on the journey Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back. It surely has been an eventful summer.

This includes the special announcement: Janus Point Press and Watch out for wormholes are both now registered trademarks of parent company Zoe Health, LLC.

READ HERE

 

 

 

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