Laura Zats
Literary Agent
Headwater Literary Management
Founder & Agent @HeadwaterLit . Host of the award-winning @printrunpodcast . Publishers Weekly industry MVP. She/her & Ms/Mx. Open to queries!
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Q265: Writers, I beg of you, please, PLEASE do not invent genres. Your book has an existing one. I promise. Pass. #500queries
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Q264: *stands on ladder* *yells* ROMANCES HAVE TO FOLLOW A FORMULA TO BE ROMANCES. Pass #500queries
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Q263: memoir. Do not rep. Pass. #500queries
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Q262: It wasn’t the plot of this YA F that pulled me in, it was the world, and the details given. Request! #500queries
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Q261: R. Very squicky. Hard pass. #500queries
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Q260: C Romance with a good hook and a heroine I’ve never seen before. Request! #500queries
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Q259: Book already pubbed. Pass. #500queries
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Q258: YA F. Too many terms, not enough worldbuilding. Pass. #500queries
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Q257: literary SF. Almost there, but it wasn’t quite SF-y enough in the pitch. Pass. #500queries
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Q256: non-fiction. Do not rep. Pass. #500queries
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Q255: Hist R. Set in a super rare time period and has a great concept. REQUEST #500queries
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Q254: Oh good. A super cliche dystopia. Pass. #500queries
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Q253: I almost requested this C F, but it’s a little too white feminism for me. Pass. #500queries
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Q252: This YA F totally had me but then the query got all didactic. Pass.#500queries
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Q251: PB. Do not rep. Pass. #500queries
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Q250: Satire is a hard sell for me in F. This didn’t make it. Pass. #500queries
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Q249: the older I get, the less I’m interested in stories where class/race is anything other than a totally arbitrary human invention and a means of control. Pass. #500queries
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Q248: Someone else is going to love this SF, but it’s a little too thriller-y for me. Pass. #500queries
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Q247: This might be a romance. It might be WF. Can’t tell. Pass. #500queries
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Q246: Man, I really love it when authors explain things to me about how this biz works. Pass. #500queries