“Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine is a joyous, incisive, inventive, and vital run of stories. I’d put it right alongside Terry Bisson’s Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories, but with the distinct possibility that you might see some of Kelly Link’s stone bunnies on the next page turn. You’ll read this with a nervous grin, and then you’ll read it again, just to see how Kristina Ten pulls some of these magic tricks off.”
– Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and My Heart Is a Chainsaw

“In Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine, Kristina Ten transports us back to the schoolyard . . . just not the way we remember it. Infused with horror and heartbreak, these stories play at the edges of realism, dip in and out of the fantastic, and showcase Ten’s incredible range as her characters navigate girlhood and womanhood, the immigrant experience, and the indelible marks that our histories leave on our futures. This collection delights from start to finish, each story a fresh take on our oldest fears.”
– Gwen E. Kirby, author of Shit Cassandra Saw 

“Never have I ever tasted such a delicious cocktail of nostalgia and dread. Reading these stories feels like saying Bloody Mary into the mirror: in Kristina Ten’s expertly crafted world, your own reflection becomes a monster. Fans of Kelly Link and Karen Russell will adore every darn second of this book. I know I did.”
– GennaRose Nethercott, author of Thistlefoot and Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart

“Kristina Ten's Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine is an audacious debut, displaying a comfortable command across a variety of genres. These stories mix the creepy with the touching, the grotesque with the beautiful. My heart ached for some of these characters, pounded in fury for others. Ten is a writer to reckon with.”
– Nathan Ballingrud, author of The Strange and Crypt of the Moon Spider

“Imagine you're playing a game, one of the oldest and best-loved in your collection, a game you've always found completely pleasurable, completely absorbing. This time, though, midway through the first round, the rules seem to bend and turn inside out. You no longer recognize the board, you realize, and what's with these playing pieces? Where did they come from? Did you move that one just now and forget about it, or did it move itself? The game is still pleasurable, still absorbing, but unfamiliar suddenly, and slightly threatening. That's what reading Kristina Ten is like. Her stories are marvels, and page after page they found new ways to surprise and discomfit me.”
– Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Ghost Variations

“The stories of Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine delight in trickery. Its collective narrative⁣ voice is somehow one of comfort, of solace; it might even evoke feelings of nostalgia—if you⁣ were raised in The Twilight Zone.”⁣
– Joe Vallese, editor of It Came from the Closet

• AUTHOR APPEARANCES AT LITERARY FESTIVALS AND WRITING CONFERENCES, INCLUDING AWP, FALL FOR THE BOOK, 29 PALMS BOOK FEST, AND OTHERS.
• GIVEAWAY ON STORYGRAPH
• TRADE ADVERTISING AND NEWSLETTER PROMOTION
• ONLINE OUTREACH FOR INTERVIEW, REVIEW, AND ROUNDUP ATTENTION
• ESSAY AND EXCERPT PLACEMENT: ELECTRIC LIT, NIGHTMARE, LOCUS, CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS
• SOCIAL NETWORK CAMPAIGN
• PODCAST PLACEMENT: DEBUTIFUL, THE AWAKENERS, SHORT STORY TODAY
  
  

Kristina Ten is available for in-person opportunities, virtual readings, author talks, book club meetings, and other events. Please direct media and marketing inquiries to publicity@stillhousepress.org.