ABOUT

Keir Alekseii's career started as Jen Azantian's mentee in 2021 at Azantian Literary Agency. After a year of mentorship, she became an associate agent with Azantian.She is an educator and anti-GBV activist born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, a twin island country in the West Indies. Keir is a writer, gamer, lover of folklore, and former research scientist. As a neurodivergent, queer person of color, Keir is invested in discovering engaging work with similar representation, and passionate about creating space for voices not often recognized. They are especially interested in stories from BIPOC who are born and raised in the Global South.Keir still lives in T&T with their partner and five rambunctious felines.Scroll down to read her full MSWL, or view on the ALA website.

Keir's MSWL

Currently, Keir is open to SFFH in Adult, YA, and MG, as well as historical YA and MG.As a neurodivergent, queer woman of color, Keir is invested in discovering engaging work with similar representation, and is passionate about creating space for voices not often recognized. She is especially interested in stories from BIPOC who are born and raised in the Global South.Please send me:- Found family
- Protags that are too smart for their own good
- Stories about embracing your identity
- Stories that center BIPOC and queer happiness
- Queernorm settings/worlds/communities
- Disabilitynorm settings/worlds/communities
- Enemies to friends/unlikely friendships
- Nonbinary MCs tasting power and choosing chaos
- Grump & sunshine/stabby & cinnamon roll pairings
- Femme villains corrupting cinnamon rolls/himbos
- Non-white power couples/non-white love interests
- Sapphic everything
- Enemies to lovers & friends to lovers
- Slow burn & second chance romance
- Heists
- D R A G O N SPlease do NOT send me:
- Novelizations of your tabletop campaign
- Books with gratuitous gore
- Splatter or slasher fiction
- Books that employ fridging
- Copaganda
- Military science fiction
- Nazi romance, fantasy nazi romance
- Adult contemporary without a speculative component
- Novellas or short story collectionsKeir’s hobbies, background and identity deeply inform what they love. Some examples of how this influences their taste include work that:- Burns down the patriarchy and/or colonizers
- Contains D&D or other TTRPG Easter eggs, or inside jokes for games like Hades, Devil May Cry, or Final Fantasy.
- Has the emotional resonance of games like Gris or Old Man’s Journey
- Has the political complexity and ethical realities of anime like Gundam or Full Metal AlchemistKeir is currently craving (in no particular order):- Kink- and poly-positive work
- Sapphic power couples. Think Korra & Asami (The Legend of Korra) or Michiru & Haruka (Sailor Moon)
- Cozy stories that feel like Studio Ghibli (both adult and YA)
- Not-so-cozy stories that feel like Studio Ghibli (think Princess Mononoke)
- A book that feels like Poker Face or Knives Out
- BIPOC vampires
- Stories where emotional intelligence is just as valuable as other skills
- Stories where cognitively disabled characters contribute to the plot, story, and victory but are not fetishized or relegated to a comedic roleYou can keep up with what they're craving in the #MSWL on their Instagram HighlightsIn fantasy, they love immersive worlds that are based outside of western cultures. In general, Keir would love to see books with BIPOC leads that use fae and folktales from non-western cultures. She’s particularly excited to see West Indian culture and mythology. Keir is also a big fan of cozy reads.In science fiction, Keir is primarily interested in seeing SF that forces us to explore the human condition. Though Keir’s SF tastes do lean toward Adult, they would welcome YA or Middle Grade work that explores such ideas and makes her crave adventure.In horror, across age categories, Keir’s tastes lean toward work that makes her feel disturbed or unsettled rather than gore or jump scares. Moody, atmospheric and creepy are all up her alley but they are not opposed to camp, either. Horror that blends genres is particularly of interest to them. In adult horror in particular, they’d love to see a book that comps to Black Mirror. In YA and MG horror, campier is also welcome.Across all genres and age categories, Keir likes emotionally complex characters, whether they are particularly sharp, have critically low common sense, or both.Genre blending and/or bending books are welcome.Retellings or re-imaginings that match this wish list are welcome.

Keir's Reading Stats

A pie chart showing the mood(s) of books Keir has read, by ratio.

The majority of books read by Keir are adventurous, dark, mysterious, and emotional. Some books are also reflective, challenging, funny/ lighthearted, or tense.

A pie chart showing the pace of books Keir has read, by ratio.

The majority of books read by Keir have been medium-paced (47%), followed by fast-paced (32%) and then slow-paced (21%).

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This information is from Keir's Storygraph reading stats for "All time" and is current as of May 3rd, 2022. While they haven't updated their Storygraph in a long, long time, these stats still hold for Keir's reading tastes.

Contact Keir

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Synopsis Example

Synopsis for Star Wars, adapted from wiki how. Example begins on next line.LUKE SKYWALKER is at the market looking to buy droids on behalf of his uncle. Luke's father was a fighter pilot, and Luke dreams of pursuing the same career. He buys two droids and while cleaning the smaller droid, he triggers a holographic message. The message is from a beautiful young woman, PRINCESS LEIA ORGANA, and is intended for someone called OBI-WAN KENOBI. Luke knows an old hermit who lives nearby called BEN KENOBI, and he wonders if the two are related.Waking the next morning, Luke discovers that one droid, R2-D2 is missing. Setting out in his landspeeder, Luke and C-3PO go to look for him but are set upon by the hostile Sand People. The old man, Ben, rescues them and takes them back to his home. They see R2-D2, and Ben reveals that he is indeed Obi-Wan Kenobi and that the message is a plea from Princess Leia to deliver the plans of the Death Star, a planet killing spaceship, to her father in the hope that he can determine a weakness in the structure. Obi-Wan also reveals to Luke that not only did he know his father, Anakin, but they were both Jedi, an order of galactic peacekeepers murdered by the Emperor. Obi-Wan tells Luke that he must now learn the ways of the Force, the Jedi powers, himself. Luke says no but agrees to at least give Obi Wan a ride to a nearby spaceport, so that he can complete the mission form Leia. However, stopping at his own home on the way there, he discovers that his aunt and uncle have been murdered by Imperial Stormtroopers (a type of imperial police) searching for the droids.This changes things for Luke, and he now wishes to become a Jedi. At the space port, the two men and the droids meet HAN SOLO, captain of the Millennium Falcon, and a wookiee named CHEWBACCA, who is Han's first mate. Han is a smuggler with a bounty on his head, but he agrees to make the trip to Alderaan, where Obi-Wan can complete his mission. Just as they are about to leave, a legion of stormtroopers arrive, and the ship only just manages to escape.The Millennium Falcon arrives in the Alderaan system and discovers that the planet has been destroyed. Obi-Wan spots what he thinks is a moon, but they realize too late that this is the Death Star and their ship is caught in a tractor beam that pulls it into the gigantic space station. The crew escapes and, disguised as stormtroopers, Luke and Han rescue Princess Leia. Obi-Wan however is caught in a confrontation with DARTH VADER, the Emperor's henchman, and is killed.With plans in hand, the rebel forces launch their attack, with Luke newly installed as a pilot. Luke is to pilot his craft down a small shaft and fire a torpedo into a weak section of the structure. As he does so, however, he is pursued by Darth Vader and other Imperial fighters. Vader's craft is knocked off course by Han and Chewbacca in another ship and spins off into deep space. Luke's shot is successful, and the Death Star is destroyed.Some weeks later, in a grand ceremony, Princess Leia awards Luke and Han with medals for their efforts while still leaving Luke free to try to find another way to pursue training as a Jedi now that Obi-Wan is dead.

© Keir Alekseii Roopnarine. All rights reserved.

© Keir Alekseii Roopnarine. All rights reserved.

© Keir Alekseii Roopnarine. All rights reserved.