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March 2, 2024

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EventHorizon

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 16, 2024

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EventHorizon

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).

June 27, 2022

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TheFuneralSinger

Women in Resistance

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Janus Point Press’s first publication, The Funeral Singer, touches on an array of themes and layers of modern Greek history that are often overlooked–or skipped, because they are painful, damning and some still are living legacies of its chapters.

Today, and moreso because of recent news in the US that is an affront to women’s rights and lives, we’d like to highlight a press and the woman behind it that is important to The Funeral Singer and the plight and power of women: Thelphini Press and author Eleni Fourtouni. Greek Women in Resistance documents the female freedom fighters who resisted Nazi occupation and fascism during WWII. This act was in itself a form of gender emancipation, but also many of these women were also fighting for a better tomorrow for themselves beyond the German occupation. They were bitterly rewarded with prison, torture and exile after WWII after a civil war and right-wing coup. That’s a different spacetime from the Janus point in The Funeral Singer which stretches from 1922-1944. Enter Zoe, our andartissa. She is 1944.
Art is a powerful tool against oppression and also a natural balm of personal salvation. In Fourtouni’s publications you find poetry. Many of these women were poets, as she was. In testimonies, you find traveling theater groups bringing education and entertainment to remote villages as bullets and starvation ravaged the Greek population.
Finding Thelpini Press is a treasure of two worlds: one, the beautiful singularity of what a small press can do: be fiercely independent, niche, publish silenced voices while also be a platform for self. We hope Janus Point Press can be the same. Two, its a treasure of small independent bookstores with souls. Not the ones that don’t greet you, and who stock the same books as B&N. But the ones like once-ago Morningside Bookstore by the Columbia campus of NYC. They stocked Thelphini Press in the basement section that housed the owner’s dad’s lifetime of Greece. More to come on that, but the store was instrumental in a decade of Stephanie’s early writing.
You can learn more on Eleni Fourtouni’s life on her facebook page from 2012, which includes both a fabulous artist statement and interview of her work and life. Find remaining copies of her books online through a google search—unless of course you are fortunate to find them in a cozy gem of a used bookstore.
The Funeral Singer will be published by Janus Point Press September 2022.

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