Book Launch: Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine by Kristina Ten w/ Tomas Moniz

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Join authors Kristina Ten and Tomas Moniz to celebrate the release of Ten’s debut story collection, Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine, called “a joyous, incisive, inventive, and vital run of stories” by Stephen Graham Jones, “a delicious cocktail of nostalgia and dread” by GennaRose Nethercott, and “an audacious debut” by Nathan Ballingrud. A conversation with Moniz (All Friends Are Necessary, Big Familia) will be followed by a reading, book signings, and a surprise or two.

About Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine:

The new kid in school discovers a diabolical presence in the depths of an English-language-learning CD-ROM. A desperate and declining empire designs an elaborate matchmaking system around cootie catchers and soda-can tabs. A former varsity volleyball player reopens the grisly wounds of her youth, haunted by a lost friend. In each story, the game has been twisted. In each game, players must make their own rules. Through a bloody, shattered lens, the artifacts of growing up take on a new and disquieting power—riddles remain unsolved, pranks have perilous stakes, and superstitions won’t save you.

Populated by living paper dolls, summer camp legends, and trivia nights gone terribly wrong, the twelve genre-crossing tales in Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine wrestle with themes of memory, disobedience, alienation, belonging, and the horrors of inhabiting a body others seek to control.

Preorder Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine or pick your copy up at Green Apple Books the evening of the event.

Kristina Ten‘s writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction, The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, and elsewhere. She has won the McSweeney’s Stephen Dixon Award for Short Fiction, the Subjective Chaos Kind of Award, and the F(r)iction Writing Contest, and has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Locus Award. Ten is a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop and the University of Colorado Boulder’s MFA program in fiction, and has received fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation and the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing.

Tomas Moniz is a latinx writer living in East Oakland, CA. His debut novel, Big Familia, was a finalist for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway and the Lambda. His second novel, All Friends Are Necessary, won the 2024 California Golden Poppy Award. His next novel will be published in Fall 26 from Algonquin Books. He teaches at Berkeley City College, the Antioch MFA program and USF. He has stuff on the internet but loves penpals: PO Box 3555, Berkeley CA 94703. He promises to write back.

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