https://youtu.be/_n1GhHoGzts
Assembling the Book Event Horizon, with Patrick Lugo of Kids Comics Unite
https://youtu.be/HaXqZIjewBs?si=R7M12Tkpec7QXj_x
The interview that takes you through the layers of some Event Horizon stories, and working with Magnus Arts agency for stellar art. Two Geeks Talking Interview with Kurt Sasso, with Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos and Chris Allo.
Within the first hour of launching on the crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter, we reached our initial funding goal for Event Horizon: Stories of No Turning Back. We are so grateful for this early enthusiasm that has us going over 8K strong, still with 20 days to go. This 240 page full color genre-bending book that combines prose, comics, canvas work and photography is a grand undertaking, and this “kickstart” certainly gives us that needed push for full publication. Do check out our campaign and consider joining us, whether the book excites your interest, you’re a fan of the array of artists in here, or supporting independent artists and presses is a meaningful endeavor for you. We are live until May 10th: every pledge counts. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theninagalaxy/event-horizon-stories-of-no-turning-back
Our first Event Horizon focused interview is up with StoryComic and the wonderful Barney Smith. Gives you a sneak peek into the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign and its rewards, which are the discounted and exclusive offer preorders for the book. Always fun to window shop before the big event on 4/9 11amEST.
We also discuss the process of finding new artists for a collection, and what Stephanie learned about herself as a writer in the process.
Link to the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theninagalaxy/event-horizon-stories-of-no-turning-back
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We took our next big step closer to our Kickstarter for Event Horizon… we made our Kickstarter prelaunch page public on the actual site of Kickstarter! This means the project is officially up on Kickstarter as ready to launch soon, kind of like rolling out the rocket to the launch pad to get ready for launch day. We’re officially a project about to launch for others to discover.
Notice anything? YES, we are launching as a PROJECT WE LOVE! This means Kickstarter thinks we got a pretty cool concept going on, and they gave us their seal of “LOVE THIS, LET’S GO GET THIS FUNDED!”
Many of you preregistered on our pre-launch page already, thank you! If you like clicking, you can also click on the Kickstarter page to be notified there too if you don’t mind a few megaphones in your email box on 4/9. Getting followers to this page helps build excitement in their algorithm and also signals to other people on the fence about whether to back: “Hey, what’s this crowd forming over here, let me go check out this project”. To get our book swag though, be sure you logged in our prelaunch page at januspointpress.com/eventhorizon as I can’t see who signs up for prelaunch on Kickstarter.
Either way you roll, see you there soon and…
SPREAD THE WORD!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theninagalaxy/event-horizon-stories-of-no-turning-back
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.
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
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.
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
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/
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?
Happy space hunting. Watch out for black holes (close cousin to, if not the same thing as, wormholes).