Publications

All of my novel manuscripts are unpublished. After they’ve gone through several rounds of editing, including beta reading and a workshop, I like to design and print a hardcopy for my own satisfaction, but such copies aren’t publicly available. Hardcopies are instead an exercise to flex different creative muscles, and they provide a breather between writing projects.

Hardcopy mock-ups that I make for my personal enjoyment. For transparency: I create original artwork and/or use my own photographs as part of the design process, but I also sometimes use Adobe Firefly for stock art, much like I might otherwise license images from Getty Images or Shutterstock. The cover designs, formatting, and editing are mine, but certain art belongs to Adobe.

Short Fiction

You can find my short stories and flash fiction in…

• Mulepati, Janessa. “Closet, Cat, Monster.” The Arcanist, May 24, 2019.

• Mulepati, Janessa. “Funeral Dysfunction.” Pif Magazine, November 2019.

• Mulepati, Janessa. “Liar, Liar, Tongue on Fire.” Luna Station Quarterly (040), 10 December 2019, pp. 40-61.

• Mulepati, Janessa. “Soft Behind the Ears.” Ghost Parachute, January 2020.

• Mulepati, Janessa. “Height Restrictions.” Haunted Waters Press, Penny Fiction, Fall 2020.

Artwork

There are limited hours in the day, and novels are my focus. I will never be particularly skilled at visual art, but I do enjoy crafts, drawing, acrylic painting, and digital art. My work has appeared in…

• Mulepati, Janessa. “Among Masks.” Coffin Bell Journal, 2020.

• Mulepati, Janessa. “In the Clouds.” Driftwood Press (7.1), January 2020, p. 91.

Acrylic painting of a bottle (left); Hobbit door earrings crafted from salvaged materials (right)