Molly O'Neill

Looking for interesting/creative frameworks/structures that elevate/heighten the impact of yr MC's arc or yr story's plot. MG or YA #MSWL

There's a middle grade novel in here somewhere and I want it. #MSWL usatoday.com/story/news/wor…

MG w/a big family or group of siblings at the heart of it, full of chaos & messiness & merriness & growing, but w/a strong hook, too. #MSWL

Redemption stories, particularly when the road to reaching redemption looks anything but familiar. YA or MG. #MSWL

Smart, sharp, intelligent writing will always catch my eye, in any YA/MG genre. As will rich, lush, lyrical prose if well-controlled. #MSWL

Magical realism. Magical realism. Magical realism. Magical realism. Magical realism. Magical realism. Magical realism! YA or MG. #MSWL

I'd like a memorable historical YA or MG where what the characters go thru feels deeply resonant & accessible to readers' lives today. #MSWL

Send me yr wildly original YA or MG fiction. Not derivative of recent hits w/a few elements changed; ideas that feel All & Only Yours. #MSWL

If you've written the kind of MG/YA novel re: faith that @ReadingRants & @katierichert discuss here, QUERY ME. #MSWL publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in…

Would love a ms. that plays w/ multiverse theory like this one, but YA (or MG). Note: writing must be superb. #MSWL shelf-awareness.com/max-issue.html…

I'd love a MG or YA w/ a big ensemble cast where even minor characters are vivid & true & original & rise far past tropes/stereotypes. #MSWL

#MSWL Bring me your MG orphan stories! (Kid-reader me was so convinced that all best stories happen to orphans that I wanted to become one.)

#MSWL MG/YA books re: (any) faith that aren't 1-dimensional, moralistic, or simplistic,but authentic re: role it can play in Becoming Human.

#MSWL YA/MG novels where sense of place is so vivid & real, the setting almost becomes a character itself. Bonus points if it's southern.

#MSWL YA or MG novel w/ interesting scientific elements woven into the plot or somehow forming narrative/structural backbone.

#MSWL YA/MG made of multiple characters' linked lives-NOT a short story collection-that add up to a larger story/highlight connectivity(2/3)