IT’S HERE! 🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Round Table Mentor mentees! Our mentors are SO excited to get started and will be personally reaching out to their chosen mentee via email to kick things off, so keep an eye on those inboxes! **See more details below 👇**

I am so so excited to be working with Rachel on their amazing MG manuscript for @roundtablementor.bsky.social I cannot wait to dig into this book!

Hello #RTM Hopefuls! There are officially FIVE days left to get your applications in! We thought we’d count down the final days with some community prompts! Prompt 1: We want to get to know you and your MC! #roundtablementor #writingcommunity #mentorship #amquerying #amwriting

Don't forget applications are now open!! I can't wait to see all your middle grade submissions!! ✨👀

Applications are OPEN!! ✨

Applications open in a couple of days! Come ask us questions! Mentors will be popping in throughout the day! ✨ And if you have any specific questions for/about me as a mentor, feel free to leave them below! I can't wait to see your submissions!!

This book is so much fun, come on--a deadly trivia game? a sentient urn?! My mentee is brilliant! ✨

Just LOOK at my amazing mentee's amazing book!!! 👀😍

Keep your eyes peeled for tomorrow!! 👀

Manuscript wishlists are live! We recommend popping over to our website to peruse mentor profiles before mentee applications open on Nov 6th 👀 Important note: Contrary to previous rounds, we are only accepting complete manuscripts this year! www.roundtablementor.com/mentors

I’m THRILLED to be a mentor for @roundtablementor.bsky.social again this year!!! ✨ I had such an amazing time mentoring @goodsamiratan.bsky.social and @emblaauw.bsky.social this past year and I can’t wait to connect with other writers in this upcoming cohort!

I am SO excited to be mentoring again for middle grade! ✨ More info coming soon!! 👀

EVERYONE LOOK! ✨ My mentee is pitching her amazing book today!! 👀

This book is absolutely WONDERFUL! (and they're my mentee!!) ✨ Agents keep your eyes peeled for this one! 👀

This book is AMAZING!! ✨ Such fun worldbuilding and delightful characters!!

Stay tuned for the reveal of our 2025-26 mentors! If you applied, please keep an eye on your inbox in the coming days 👀 We originally said 10/6, but we will actually be posting our cohort on socials on 10/10 to give our mentors a bit more time! Thanks to all who applied 🩷

Applications close tomorrow! ✨

Join a selection of RTM mentors TOMORROW for a panel on debuting! The panel will stream to our YouTube channel!

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This book is out TODAY!!! Go pick up your copy!! ✨🎉

I need help surviving this year. If you're not in a position to donate, I understand. Please help by reposting. Please share with your circles. Every little donation helps. Thank you. gofund.me/19bc02b6

Tracy & I have a book out on May 13th. It’s a middle grade mystery called: THEIR JUST DESSERTS. I don’t need to tell you all the state of publishing for two BIPOC authors right now, you can imagine the sort of effort we’re getting. Could you please buy it? Here’s a link: bookshop.org/p/books/thei...

Yall 🥺 My debut novel, THESE VILE HEARTS, (and sequel!) is going to be published by Putnam of PRH and I am 🤯 about this. Definitely made a deal with a dryad to land my brilliant editor, Daphne Durham, and rockstar agents @stutitelidevara.bsky.social and @petejknapp.bsky.social

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HERE IT IS! BROKEN DOLLS COMING SEPTEMBER 2025 That quote had me in literal tears. Share and you're in the drawing for copies of all three books.

FYI if there are any Canadian teachers/librarians/parents of middle graders who would like a copy of Bitterfly Bay, I have an extra hardcover I'd like to send to someone <3

It’s Black History Month and Ramadan is expected to start on/near February 28th, so this is the perfect time to pick up a copy of YOU TRULY ASSUMED + support a Black Muslim author✨ Grab a copy here: lailasabreen.com/yta

Black History is American History.

I am so SO excited to announce the ✨two✨mentees 👀 I’ve selected for this round of #roundtablementor!! Elise Blaauw and @goodsamiratan.bsky.social !!

Both of their amazing middle grade manuscripts captured my heart and I CANNOT WAIT to dig into revisions!!

Here are our mentees from the Middle Grade and Picture Books category:

Can’t wait!!! ✨

Announcements are soon!!! 👀 So excited!!

ONE WEEK UNTIL THE GHOSTS OF BITTERFLY BAY 👻✨🖤

President Trump's DOE has made themselves clear: they will support book banners in their efforts to strip our institutions of learning of the books that define them. So let us be perfectly clear: we're going to do whatever we can to try and stop them.

Reminder that this is TONIGHT! Join us on our YouTube channel, @/RoundTableMentor, at 7pm EST!

Mark your calendars for RTM's first event of the year! Join a selection of this year's mentors for a panel on all things querying. The panel will be recorded, so don't stress if you can't make it live!

I’m just saying if 120 of you added HOLLOW on Goodreads I would hit 1k adds before the new year and 🥹 maybe????? Imagine! If you like YA #horror, here’s my shameless plug for my #book!!

Check those stockings--ahem, those spam folders! We have it on good authority a few full requests have ended up there!

Applicants, be sure to check your inboxes and spam folders--full requests have started going out, and the mentors are eager to read!

I am just having so much fun digging into these @roundtablementor.bsky.social submissions!! 😍😍😍

This book is ✨AMAZING✨ definitely enter!!

Now that applications have closed, you may be wondering what happens before mentee announcements on February 1... here are some next steps!

It is FINISHED!! ✨ time for some reading and a nap!

I don't want to get ahead of myself, but I think I'm finally gonna finish this WIP this weekend!!! ✨

There's still time to submit your application! We close to mentee applications on Sunday, December 15th at 12pm EST.

Apps for Round Table Mentor close this Sunday Dec 15th at 12pm Eastern time! How did writing your synopsis go/how is it going? #WritingCommunity

Don't forget to get those applications in!! Can't wait to see your amazing manuscripts! ✨

Don’t forget to apply!! ✨ Can’t wait to go through your MG and YA manuscripts!!