Mekisha Telfer

@MekishaTelfer

Editor

Roaring Brook Press

Editor || Roaring Brook Press || Tired || Bi || 🗽🍑🇯🇲 || She/Her

· 14 Dec 2020

I have been too quiet about my love for Black cowboys.

Somebody, please write me a Charley Pride picture book.
🤠😭 #MSWL #PB

Picture books

· 7 Feb 2020

kelly andrew @KayAyDrew

I was just told by someone in my life that no one cares about reading d/Deaf or HoH own voices stories, and that I'm "barking up the wrong tree."

Maybe he was right, but I've never in my life been more motivated to prove anyone wrong.

This person is both wrong and rude. I would love to see more d/Deaf and HoH #ownvoices stories in my inbox. #mswl

OwnVoices

· 29 Aug 2019

Nivia Evans @NiviaEvans

Hi Universe,

It's me. I know I ask for a lot of things, but could you be kind enough to send me a ms about black women who are witches that isn't steeped in black pain but is about a community coming together or a woman falling in love or something full of joy.

K, thnx #mswl

Co-signing this request, but for YA and MG!

#mswl

· 9 Apr 2019

sabreen ali. @queenxbean

ever since my daughter found out our plant, serena, wasn’t getting enough sunlight, she insists on taking her out for walks while holding her up to the sun. 🌱 pic.twitter.com/Lr8b90Lkk7

So wholesome!! 😭😭😭

#MSWL

· 6 Dec 2018

🦎✨Ryan Douglass ✨🌿 @ryandouglassw

GIVE GAY BLACK MEN BOOK DEALS

🚨To anyone listening, this is a thing I am looking to do! My inbox is open! #MSWL 🚨

LGBT

· 5 Sep 2018

Dahlia Adler @MissDahlELama

Publishers, please consider buying more queer Harry Potter-ish books because wow do I get a lot of requests for them on the LGBTQReads Tumblr.

Also, you really need Sapphic YA vampires. Pretty sure @whimsicallyours will write them for you if you ask nicely.

#MSWL Please! To this entire thread.

· 26 Aug 2018

joyce carol nopes. @blackcatb00ks

Write more coming of age stories about black girls, please.

#MSWL forever

· 20 Aug 2018

Ashley Woodfolk @AshWrites

Can someone write a book where a deaf boy signs thank you and a hearing girl thinks he's blowing her a kiss and then she starts talking to him and realizes he's deaf and then she starts signing because she has a deaf lil bro/sis AND MEET-CUTE AND CUE MUSIC twitter.com/carodoodles/st…

#MSWL because I live for cute things <3

· 26 Jul 2018

Ariana Grande still has a hold on my soul.

Here's a #ThursdayAesthetic for something I will *never* write but is now on my #MSWL: a #YA fantasy about a black messiah and her kickass disciples feeding the hungry, killing kings, and convincing the kingdom that God is a woman

Fantasy
YA

· 16 Feb 2018

Katie Slivensky @paleopaws

Just passed by a little girl staring through a window at our lifesize model of a T. rex, whispering earnestly:

"Wake up, dinosaur. Come on. Wake up. You can do it."

@museumofscience

My heart! 😭 Somebody please make a picture book out of this #MSWL

Picture books

· 8 Feb 2017

Caitie Flum @caitief

Black boys and men as the heroes of SFF. Black boys and men as the heroes of romance. Black boys and men as the heroes of ALL genres #MSWL

Please!! 😍😍#MSWL

· 8 Feb 2017

I would love, love, love to see more (any!) #ownvoices #YA stories from black trans women in my inbox. Top of my #MSWL

· 8 Feb 2017

Peter Knapp @petejknapp

#mswl - more MG with LGTBQ+ characters and crushes!

Yes, please to this too!! #MSWL

· 8 Feb 2017

Peter Knapp @petejknapp

#mswl - #ownvoices YA and MG with intersectionality.

Yes, please! #MSWL

· 8 Feb 2017

Please send your funny, sex-positive, sex-informative (educational?🤔) #YA manuscripts my way! #MSWL

YA
Funny

· 8 Feb 2017

Jennifer Kim @jennbkim

Hiya. If your YA manuscript is anything like the "Chiron" segment in Moonlight, I'd really like to read it. #ownvoices #MSWL

Seconded! 🙋🏾 #MSWL

· 8 Feb 2017

If your manuscript sounds like it could be a John Hughes movie, it's probably on my #MSWL

· 8 Feb 2017

#MSWL #ownvoices stories featuring brown kids in America. Carefree stories, protest stories, queer stories, monster stories, magic stories

· 23 Sep 2016

I think this is my new favorite thing. ❤️

(#MSWL #YA because I want a book that makes me feel the way this does)

youtu.be/nxg4C365LbQ

YA

· 16 Sep 2016

Thao Le @ThaoLe8

Would love a fantasy where the heroine is cursed into an animal, not a shifter story but like Howl's Moving Castle meets Lady Hawke #mswl

Umm, Universe, this is also a thing I would like 😊 Please and thank you! #MSWL twitter.com/thaole8/status…

Fantasy