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

"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."

"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."

"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 Wes"

An event features Kristina Ten and Tomas Moniz presenting Ten's debut short-story collection, Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine, with a conversation, reading, book signings, and surprises. The collection contains twelve genre-crossing tales in which familiar childhood games and objects are twisted into dangerous, uncanny rites. Stories center on memory, disobedience, alienation, belonging, and the horrors of bodies controlled by others. Narratives include living paper dolls, summer camp legends, and trivia nights gone wrong. Preorders are available and copies can be purchased at Green Apple Books the night of the event. Ten's work appears in noted anthologies and she has received multiple awards and finalists' recognitions.

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