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Kiyash Monsef

@kiyash.bsky.social

NY Times bestseller • Morris Award finalist • TRISKELION (Fall 2027) • BIRD OF A THOUSAND STORIES • ONCE THERE WAS • kiyash.com • https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kiyash-Monsef/194209060

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Kiyash Monsef@kiyash.bsky.social · 2w ago

BOOK STUFFF!!! TRISKELION is coming Fall 27. It's a big adventure: pirates, land-whales, a road that's never the same twice, a castle that no one gets into or out of. And it's about friendships changing, childhood ending, and three young people facing big questions about life, alone, and together

Background is a redwood forest with a shaft of sunlight streaking through. Foreground is a book announcement from Publishers Weekly, which reads: Kendra Levin at Simon & Schuster has acquired, in a six-figure deal, TRISKELION by Kiyash Monsef (ONCE THERE WAS). The middle grade novel follows three former best friends; when one of them goes missing, the other two reunite and discover that the made-up world they played in as younger children wasn't a game, but a real place that now has their friend in its clutches. Publication is scheduled for fall 2027; Katelyn Detweiler at Jill Grinberg Literary Management sold world rights.
Kiyash Monsef@kiyash.bsky.social · 2w ago

BOOK STUFFF!!! TRISKELION is coming Fall 27. It's a big adventure: pirates, land-whales, a road that's never the same twice, a castle that no one gets into or out of. And it's about friendships changing, childhood ending, and three young people facing big questions about life, alone, and together

Background is a redwood forest with a shaft of sunlight streaking through. Foreground is a book announcement from Publishers Weekly, which reads: Kendra Levin at Simon & Schuster has acquired, in a six-figure deal, TRISKELION by Kiyash Monsef (ONCE THERE WAS). The middle grade novel follows three former best friends; when one of them goes missing, the other two reunite and discover that the made-up world they played in as younger children wasn't a game, but a real place that now has their friend in its clutches. Publication is scheduled for fall 2027; Katelyn Detweiler at Jill Grinberg Literary Management sold world rights.
Kiyash Monsef@kiyash.bsky.social · 3w ago

Before this past Saturday afternoon, I had never in my adult life accepted an award in person. BIRD OF A THOUSAND STORIES took home the Northern California Book Award. An amazing surprise, and my parents were even in the audience! Thank you to @poetryflash.bsky.social and the NCB readers!

Banner image for the 45th Annual Northern California Book Awards, held Saturday, Sept 19 at the Koret Auditorium in the San Francisco Main Public LibraryNominees and winners of the three Children's Literature Categories - Younger Readers: The Everything Trail, Meg Fleming, illustrated by Chuck Groenink, Beach Lane Books (winner) Let's Be Bees, Shawn Harris, Neal Porter Books The Day the Books Disappeared, Joanna Ho, Caroline Kusin Pritchard, illustrated by Dan Santat, Disney Hyperion Middle Grade Bunns Rabbit, Alan Barillaro, Candlewick Press Bird of a Thousand Stories, Kiyash Monsef, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (winner) The Peach Thief, Linda Joan Smith, Candlewick Press Young Adult Trans History: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, a graphich novel, Alex L. Combs, Andrew Eakett, Candlewick Press Island Creatures, Margarita Engle, Atheneum (winner) The Lost Queen, Aimee Phan, G.P. Putnam's SonsMe up on stage accepting my award, with the cover of Bird of a Thousand Stories projected onto the screen behind me. Wild!!
Kiyash Monsef@kiyash.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Man, The Bone Temple has one of the most awesome uses of diegetic music I've ever seen. Easily up there with Sinners and Night of the Hunter. I watched it last week, and I can't stop thinking about it. If you can handle the outrageous gore and torture scenes, it's brilliant.

Kiyash Monsef@kiyash.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only— The Wire Haunting of Hill House Watchmen Peep Show The Colbert Report Pete & Pete Avatar GI Joe (1980s) Downton Abbey Whose Line is it Anyway Monty Python's Flying Circus Dark Cheers Andor Odd Squad

Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only— Kids in the Hall Gilmore Girls Golden Girls Justified Last Week Tonight Parks & Rec Gravity Falls Breaking Bad The Wire Schitt’s Creek The Good Place Aqua Teen Hunger Force Andor Avatar the Last Airbender Warrior

Kiyash Monsef@kiyash.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Lots of things suck right now, but these two mourning doves are taking care of an egg, and each other, under the eaves of our house right now, and they're doing amazing

Two mourning doves sitting on a messy little nest they made in a corner under the eaves of my house
Kiyash Monsef@kiyash.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Lots of things suck right now, but these two mourning doves are taking care of an egg, and each other, under the eaves of our house right now, and they're doing amazing

Two mourning doves sitting on a messy little nest they made in a corner under the eaves of my house