Aisha🌙

🚨I'm currently open for submissions until April 23! 🚨 Here's a thread of my current #MSWL for @shaherazadshelf, if you have anything that fits, please send it my way! Please submit via Query Manager (link at the end of 🧵) #ManuscriptWishlist #writerscommunity

Currently editing a chapter where the characters are exploring Lahore and having a grand time. Why can't that be meee?

@madeehahwrites What's even worse is trying to book a driving test........ why are some of these instructors reselling driving tests for 300 quid 😭

The inflation of cost of driving lessons is insane

My paintings of birds throughout the years

You might wonder how someone living through a genocide could read all those books. But reading, once my refuge and habit, has become my escape from everything I live through. When I feel fear, I take shelter in books. When I feel hunger, I devour a novel. When I feel joy, I read a passage. At sunset and sunrise, I read—again and again and again—then I write. Today, I celebrate my birthday with the books I’ve read this year. I have never found and will never find a companion more loyal and sincere than them. June 19th—I was born in the green village “Beit Hanoun” among its simple people. Since God breathed awareness into my body and I began to think, all I saw around me was the green of the land and the black ink on paper. From that moment, I began consuming both the green and the ink. I never dared to write until God illuminated my insight, and I held my pen in my trembling left hand, brushing it against the paper and writing: “My eyes have not and will not fall from you.” Later that same year, I wrote: “My eyes longed to see you, so I plucked them out.” And between those two lines, I scattered countless letters into an absent soul. I used to caress the letters, and they caressed me—until this genocide came. Now I find myself in a battle between me and the letters. Instead of writing with ink, I write in blood—about blood. My hand no longer trembles. Sorrow and blood silence every pulse.

They weren’t “arrested”. They were kidnapped. 12 humanitarians were kidnapped in the middle of the night. Call it what it is.

I finally laid eyes on the sea for the 1st time since the genocide began in Gaza… Even the birds have wings, but they never leave Gaza ❤️‍🩹!..

Happy Friday! ✨ We’re so incredibly grateful to the booksellers and readers who took a chance on us—Shaherazad Shelves will now be trade distributed worldwide by @IPGbooknews!

@andiehwrites I enjoy romance more as a subplot so I'm not a great fit for romantasy unfortunately!

🚨I'm currently open for submissions until April 23! 🚨 Here's a thread of my current #MSWL for @shaherazadshelf, if you have anything that fits, please send it my way! Please submit via Query Manager (link at the end of 🧵) #ManuscriptWishlist #writerscommunity

@ArmaaniKhalid The submissions close tomorrow (April 23) at 12am EST. The link should be fixed now, please try again!

@cetabookss I clicked the link, and it said you were closed for submissions. Is that correct?

🚨🚨SUBMISSIONS CLOSE TOMORROW APRIL 23 🚨🚨 GET THOSE SUBMISSIONS IN QUICKLY!!⏳⏳⏳

FYI if you write historical fantasies I want to read them 👀 check out my #MSWL in pinned tweet 📍 x.com/cetabookss/sta…

My current reads + new blossoms 🌸

@NuzhatNaor Ah I'm not an agent I'm an editorial assistant, but I hope you're able to find one 😭

@cetabookss Appreciate the response! It’s tough finding South Asian agents.

@NuzhatNaor Hi Nuzhat! I'm not the best fit for picture books! Only YA and Adult atm 😅

@cetabookss Hi, Aisha! I know it’s not on your #mswl but are you open to picture books?

@hijabi_soldier So excited to be on the team! Can't wait for what's to come InshaAllah!! 🥰🥰

So incredibly proud to have Aisha join the Shaherazad Shelves team! 💚 She will be open to submissions until the 23rd, so polish those stories (or nonfic!!) and send it her way asap

@hijabi_soldier @shaherazadshelf Thank you!! 😄❤❤

@cetabookss @shaherazadshelf So excited for you!