Karuna Riazi
@karunariazi.bsky.social
Kidlit author. Blasian Muslim magical girl. Always dreaming.
Latest: A BIT OF EARTH (Greenwillow 2023). Next: SABRENA SWEPT AWAY (Greenwillow 2025).
Hamline MFAC July '21 | Rep: Thao Le
No means to donate currently 💔
Latest: A BIT OF EARTH (Greenwillow 2023). Next: SABRENA SWEPT AWAY (Greenwillow 2025).
Hamline MFAC July '21 | Rep: Thao Le
No means to donate currently 💔
I haven't done a #currentlyplaying look at the video games in the queue in a good while - so here's one!
🎮 Expedition 33
🎮 Kingdom Hearts (1)
🎮 Phoenix Wright Trilogy (replay)
🎮 Tiny Bookshop
(Also returning to Stardew, My Time at Sandrock & Fields of Mistria - 'tis the season for farming sims 🌻)
🎮 Expedition 33
🎮 Kingdom Hearts (1)
🎮 Phoenix Wright Trilogy (replay)
🎮 Tiny Bookshop
(Also returning to Stardew, My Time at Sandrock & Fields of Mistria - 'tis the season for farming sims 🌻)
October 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I haven't done a #currentlyplaying look at the video games in the queue in a good while - so here's one!
🎮 Expedition 33
🎮 Kingdom Hearts (1)
🎮 Phoenix Wright Trilogy (replay)
🎮 Tiny Bookshop
(Also returning to Stardew, My Time at Sandrock & Fields of Mistria - 'tis the season for farming sims 🌻)
🎮 Expedition 33
🎮 Kingdom Hearts (1)
🎮 Phoenix Wright Trilogy (replay)
🎮 Tiny Bookshop
(Also returning to Stardew, My Time at Sandrock & Fields of Mistria - 'tis the season for farming sims 🌻)
Happy book birthday, Sabrena. 🩵
Releasing from Greenwillow Books today on hardcover or audio, this middle grade fantasy is perfect for readers who enjoyed The Last Mapmaker, Mañanaland, and Graciela in the Abyss.
Releasing from Greenwillow Books today on hardcover or audio, this middle grade fantasy is perfect for readers who enjoyed The Last Mapmaker, Mañanaland, and Graciela in the Abyss.
July 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Happy book birthday, Sabrena. 🩵
Releasing from Greenwillow Books today on hardcover or audio, this middle grade fantasy is perfect for readers who enjoyed The Last Mapmaker, Mañanaland, and Graciela in the Abyss.
Releasing from Greenwillow Books today on hardcover or audio, this middle grade fantasy is perfect for readers who enjoyed The Last Mapmaker, Mañanaland, and Graciela in the Abyss.
It's awkward going, "Hey, I fell off the face of the earth but I have a book coming out tomorrow if you're interested" but...
Hey, I have a book coming out tomorrow. It's a MG fantasy inspired by 1001 Nights with a Blasian heroine. Might be fun? Might distract from the horrors?
Hey, I have a book coming out tomorrow. It's a MG fantasy inspired by 1001 Nights with a Blasian heroine. Might be fun? Might distract from the horrors?
July 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
It's awkward going, "Hey, I fell off the face of the earth but I have a book coming out tomorrow if you're interested" but...
Hey, I have a book coming out tomorrow. It's a MG fantasy inspired by 1001 Nights with a Blasian heroine. Might be fun? Might distract from the horrors?
Hey, I have a book coming out tomorrow. It's a MG fantasy inspired by 1001 Nights with a Blasian heroine. Might be fun? Might distract from the horrors?
This weekend, I'm participating in the Indie Bookstore Preorder Party (check out @authors4indiebookstores on Instagram for more details on all the goodness planned, but a key detail is using PARTY2025 and preordering Sabrena at a participating bookstore for 15% off!)
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June 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This weekend, I'm participating in the Indie Bookstore Preorder Party (check out @authors4indiebookstores on Instagram for more details on all the goodness planned, but a key detail is using PARTY2025 and preordering Sabrena at a participating bookstore for 15% off!)
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Haven't done a "Here's what I'm (probably) playing tonight" post in a while, probably because mental health was making it hard to focus on gaming, but here's one.
⛏️ My Time At Sandrock
🌱 Fields of Mistria
🩸 Higurashi (chapter one)
🪴 Stardew Valley
⛏️ My Time At Sandrock
🌱 Fields of Mistria
🩸 Higurashi (chapter one)
🪴 Stardew Valley
May 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Haven't done a "Here's what I'm (probably) playing tonight" post in a while, probably because mental health was making it hard to focus on gaming, but here's one.
⛏️ My Time At Sandrock
🌱 Fields of Mistria
🩸 Higurashi (chapter one)
🪴 Stardew Valley
⛏️ My Time At Sandrock
🌱 Fields of Mistria
🩸 Higurashi (chapter one)
🪴 Stardew Valley
Did you know Sabrena Swept Away, my upcoming middle grade fantasy, is available for request on NetGalley and Edelweiss? Now you do! 🩵
May 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Did you know Sabrena Swept Away, my upcoming middle grade fantasy, is available for request on NetGalley and Edelweiss? Now you do! 🩵
SABRENA SWEPT AWAY, forthcoming in July!
May 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
SABRENA SWEPT AWAY, forthcoming in July!
I'm deeply honored to share that SABRENA SWEPT AWAY is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. This is the first time in my career. I cannot thank JLG enough for the recognition & sweeping Sabrena into the hands of readers waiting to dive into her story. Alhamdulillah for everything. 🩵
April 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I'm deeply honored to share that SABRENA SWEPT AWAY is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. This is the first time in my career. I cannot thank JLG enough for the recognition & sweeping Sabrena into the hands of readers waiting to dive into her story. Alhamdulillah for everything. 🩵
I would particularly appreciate it if you placed a preorder through an indie (or through @libro.fm for the audiobook) of SABRENA SWEPT AWAY, my upcoming middle grade fantasy with Blasian Muslim rep (July, Greenwillow Books).
April 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I would particularly appreciate it if you placed a preorder through an indie (or through @libro.fm for the audiobook) of SABRENA SWEPT AWAY, my upcoming middle grade fantasy with Blasian Muslim rep (July, Greenwillow Books).
Happy Indie Bookstore Day 2025, buy one of my books today please
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#indiebookstoreday #independentbookstoreday #middlegradefantasy #middlegradepreorders
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#indiebookstoreday #independentbookstoreday #middlegradefantasy #middlegradepreorders
April 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Happy Indie Bookstore Day 2025, buy one of my books today please
www.harpercollins.com/products/a-b...
www.harpercollins.com/products/sab...
#indiebookstoreday #independentbookstoreday #middlegradefantasy #middlegradepreorders
www.harpercollins.com/products/a-b...
www.harpercollins.com/products/sab...
#indiebookstoreday #independentbookstoreday #middlegradefantasy #middlegradepreorders
A Bit of Earth, my 2023 Secret Garden retelling that hasn't earned out yet, was for AI. If you know a young reader who might want to honestly enjoy it, I would very much appreciate it because it's so demoralizing to keep staring at that title on the list.
www.harpercollins.com/products/a-b...
www.harpercollins.com/products/a-b...
March 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
A Bit of Earth, my 2023 Secret Garden retelling that hasn't earned out yet, was for AI. If you know a young reader who might want to honestly enjoy it, I would very much appreciate it because it's so demoralizing to keep staring at that title on the list.
www.harpercollins.com/products/a-b...
www.harpercollins.com/products/a-b...
SABRENA SWEPT AWAY (2025 - this summer!)
🌊 A Thousand and One Nights-inspired middle grade portal fantasy!
🌊 My first Black + South Asian heroine (like me!)
🌊 Per my publisher, "a tantalizing tale about fate, choice, and being torn between both"
Preorder! www.harpercollins.com/products/sab...
🌊 A Thousand and One Nights-inspired middle grade portal fantasy!
🌊 My first Black + South Asian heroine (like me!)
🌊 Per my publisher, "a tantalizing tale about fate, choice, and being torn between both"
Preorder! www.harpercollins.com/products/sab...
February 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
SABRENA SWEPT AWAY (2025 - this summer!)
🌊 A Thousand and One Nights-inspired middle grade portal fantasy!
🌊 My first Black + South Asian heroine (like me!)
🌊 Per my publisher, "a tantalizing tale about fate, choice, and being torn between both"
Preorder! www.harpercollins.com/products/sab...
🌊 A Thousand and One Nights-inspired middle grade portal fantasy!
🌊 My first Black + South Asian heroine (like me!)
🌊 Per my publisher, "a tantalizing tale about fate, choice, and being torn between both"
Preorder! www.harpercollins.com/products/sab...
A BIT OF EARTH (2023) is a poetry + prose retelling of THE SECRET GARDEN!
✨ My most accessible title yet: large print, audiobook, talking book, oh my!
✨ Blurbed by multiple children's luminaries (so honored)
✨ Starred review from School Library Journal ❤️
www.harpercollins.com/products/a-b...
✨ My most accessible title yet: large print, audiobook, talking book, oh my!
✨ Blurbed by multiple children's luminaries (so honored)
✨ Starred review from School Library Journal ❤️
www.harpercollins.com/products/a-b...
February 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A BIT OF EARTH (2023) is a poetry + prose retelling of THE SECRET GARDEN!
✨ My most accessible title yet: large print, audiobook, talking book, oh my!
✨ Blurbed by multiple children's luminaries (so honored)
✨ Starred review from School Library Journal ❤️
www.harpercollins.com/products/a-b...
✨ My most accessible title yet: large print, audiobook, talking book, oh my!
✨ Blurbed by multiple children's luminaries (so honored)
✨ Starred review from School Library Journal ❤️
www.harpercollins.com/products/a-b...
Not officially "mine," but in 2019, I adapted THE JUNGLE BOOK for Sesame Workshop (!!) for the Ghostwriter reboot (!!!!) and it brought my students great joy to see me occasionally come up on Google as the author of the Jungle Book instead of Kipling. www.sourcebooks.com/ghost-writer...
February 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Not officially "mine," but in 2019, I adapted THE JUNGLE BOOK for Sesame Workshop (!!) for the Ghostwriter reboot (!!!!) and it brought my students great joy to see me occasionally come up on Google as the author of the Jungle Book instead of Kipling. www.sourcebooks.com/ghost-writer...
THE BATTLE (2019):
✨ Companion to The Battle, starring prior protagonist Farah's brother Ahmad
✨ Zathura-inspired (keeping up with the Jumanji comp)
✨ The board game has become a video game in this one! Pretty cool!
✨ Companion to The Battle, starring prior protagonist Farah's brother Ahmad
✨ Zathura-inspired (keeping up with the Jumanji comp)
✨ The board game has become a video game in this one! Pretty cool!
February 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
THE BATTLE (2019):
✨ Companion to The Battle, starring prior protagonist Farah's brother Ahmad
✨ Zathura-inspired (keeping up with the Jumanji comp)
✨ The board game has become a video game in this one! Pretty cool!
✨ Companion to The Battle, starring prior protagonist Farah's brother Ahmad
✨ Zathura-inspired (keeping up with the Jumanji comp)
✨ The board game has become a video game in this one! Pretty cool!
THE GAUNTLET (2017):
✨ Likely first Bangladeshi American protagonist in middle grade
✨ Highly acclaimed, featured in EW x3, translated in several languages (at one point, big in Germany!)
✨ A reverse Jumanji with lots of puzzles and danger
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ga...
✨ Likely first Bangladeshi American protagonist in middle grade
✨ Highly acclaimed, featured in EW x3, translated in several languages (at one point, big in Germany!)
✨ A reverse Jumanji with lots of puzzles and danger
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ga...
February 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
THE GAUNTLET (2017):
✨ Likely first Bangladeshi American protagonist in middle grade
✨ Highly acclaimed, featured in EW x3, translated in several languages (at one point, big in Germany!)
✨ A reverse Jumanji with lots of puzzles and danger
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ga...
✨ Likely first Bangladeshi American protagonist in middle grade
✨ Highly acclaimed, featured in EW x3, translated in several languages (at one point, big in Germany!)
✨ A reverse Jumanji with lots of puzzles and danger
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ga...
(Probable) book and game selections for the night so I can peel away from doomscrolling.
February 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
(Probable) book and game selections for the night so I can peel away from doomscrolling.
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! Support a Black + Asian author (me) and her Black + Asian heroine (Sabrena) and preorder SABRENA SWEPT AWAY for a kid you love today (preferably from your local Black indie bookstore). www.harpercollins.com/products/sab...
February 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! Support a Black + Asian author (me) and her Black + Asian heroine (Sabrena) and preorder SABRENA SWEPT AWAY for a kid you love today (preferably from your local Black indie bookstore). www.harpercollins.com/products/sab...
This week's creative mantra has been these wise words from Ursula for sure.
January 30, 2025 at 3:36 AM
This week's creative mantra has been these wise words from Ursula for sure.
Authors of #booksky, explain your story badly:
A girl tries to tell a story, fails, gets sucked into another story, takes a nice sailing trip on the sea, and finds that the treasure was the friends she made along the way
(Preorder now! www.harpercollins.com/products/sab...)
A girl tries to tell a story, fails, gets sucked into another story, takes a nice sailing trip on the sea, and finds that the treasure was the friends she made along the way
(Preorder now! www.harpercollins.com/products/sab...)
January 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Authors of #booksky, explain your story badly:
A girl tries to tell a story, fails, gets sucked into another story, takes a nice sailing trip on the sea, and finds that the treasure was the friends she made along the way
(Preorder now! www.harpercollins.com/products/sab...)
A girl tries to tell a story, fails, gets sucked into another story, takes a nice sailing trip on the sea, and finds that the treasure was the friends she made along the way
(Preorder now! www.harpercollins.com/products/sab...)
I have seen this meme cross my feed a LOT, and am deciding to finally tap myself in!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
1/20
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
1/20
January 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I have seen this meme cross my feed a LOT, and am deciding to finally tap myself in!
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
1/20
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
1/20
(always grateful to @scottwesterfeld.bsky.social for getting this one, though I still don't know what was being said to disgust me so)
January 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
(always grateful to @scottwesterfeld.bsky.social for getting this one, though I still don't know what was being said to disgust me so)
37. Hand-sewing and embroidery, though I haven't done it in a while. I should get back to it.
January 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
37. Hand-sewing and embroidery, though I haven't done it in a while. I should get back to it.
32. My DnD dice bag. It is embroidered and floral and gorgeous.
January 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
32. My DnD dice bag. It is embroidered and floral and gorgeous.
2. Egg curry. I made it myself for the first time last night (an adaptation of my Black mother's adaptation of her Bangladeshi mother-in-law/my grandmother's recipe) and it really hit the spot, even if it didn't taste like either of theirs. 🤡
January 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
2. Egg curry. I made it myself for the first time last night (an adaptation of my Black mother's adaptation of her Bangladeshi mother-in-law/my grandmother's recipe) and it really hit the spot, even if it didn't taste like either of theirs. 🤡