Molly O'Neill

Root Literary

Literary agent & builder of bookmakers @RootLiterary. Collector & connector of words + art + people + stories. Shameless sharer of cat pics. @MarquetteU alum.

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· 19 Oct 2018

Katherine Harrison @KidlitKat

Dear writers: The world needs more amazing #middlegrade voices—maybe YOUR amazing mddle grade voice. Won't you kindly get on that? Sincerely, an editor of middle grade #amediting #amwriting #mswl

I am also Extremely Here For This! #mswl

· 17 Jul 2018

Molly O'Neill @molly_oneill

Stepped inside @BankStreetBooks mere moments before the downpour began & well, there are worse fates than waiting out a thunderstorm in a bookstore. ⛈📚⛈

Update: read some books. ☔️📚
Related P.S. Standing #MSWL request for all your kids/MG/YA graphic novels! Illustrators, authors, and/or author-illustrators are all welcome. (I’m probably not the right agent for adult graphic novels/comics, tho.)

· 13 Jun 2018

Kelly Knox @kelly_knox

The photos alone in this spotlight on a girls middle school's D&D Club will make your whole day! Plus, how @satinephoenix and @matthewmercer inspired the girls' DM, @ethanschoonover: geekandsundry.com/this-girls-mid… pic.twitter.com/hRkGBWNLuE

#MSWL so hard!

· 16 Mar 2018

This kind of storytelling but MG or YA, please! *Especially* as MG. (Arguably MG is always something like this, at its purest state—stories of connection + hope—and I always want it!) #MSWL theguardian.com/books/2018/mar…

· 13 Mar 2018

Channel NewsAsia @ChannelNewsAsia

Married couple in China discover they appeared in same photograph as teenagers: Report cna.asia/2GgKwm2 pic.twitter.com/vrSlECRRmP

#MSWL but YA, plz.

· 9 Jan 2018

Juliana Corrales @juju_corrales

Kissed this great guy on the top of the Eiffel Tower, biggest regret is that I didn’t get his number, Twitter can ya help a girl out? pic.twitter.com/ZkNqXc1a9J

Bonjour mes amis, who is going to send me the YA manuscript that this story inspires? #MSWL

· 22 Dec 2017

Hi querying authors & illustrators: I will officially re-open to submissions on January 15, 2018. New sub guidelines will be on my website as of that date: mollyoneillbooks.com/submissions-po… Till then, may your holidays be full of creativity & joy! #MSWL

Illustrator

· 29 Nov 2017

Ed Yong @edyong209

New York has separate populations of uptown and downtown rats that don't mingle very much, and I cannot stop laughing. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

I’m just saying, with the right (truly distinctive!) narrative voice, I could be all in for a star-crossed anthropomorphic Uptown/Downtown Rat Love Story. #MSWL #FievalGoesUptown

· 27 Nov 2017

B.N. Harrison @bnharrison

"My math teacher is low-key terrified of all of us," the tween in my house told us tonight at dinner.

And then she explained why. (thread)

1. This is hilarious. 2. Perpetual #MSWL for brilliant, charismatic, self-possessed main characters like this kid, inserted into a plot of your choosing. MG or YA (but especially MG!)