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January 16, 2024

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EventHorizon

Cover Reveal & Launch Page for Event Horizon

Cover Reveal & Launch Page for Event Horizon 0

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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JeanNew Release

Coming Soon! Jean, Janus & Comic Book Realism

Coming Soon! Jean, Janus & Comic Book Realism 0

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

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