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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Q141: This F is, I’m sure, a fun story, but the tension was bled out of the query. Pass. #500queries
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Q140: I’m also a tough sell for evil pharmaceutical corporations. Pass. #500queries
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Q139: I’m a tough sell for solving generations-old crimes. This one didn’t make the cut. Pass. #500queries
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Q138: I’m not sure what genre this book is, but it’s definitely not in my strictly defined categories. Pass. #500queries
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Q137: I am absolute trash for books comp’ed to THE HATING GAME. Request. #500queries
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Q136: MG. Do not rep! #500queries
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Q135: If it’s not addressed to me, I don’t request pages. Pass. #500queries
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Q134: This romance pitch absolutely smolders and I’m so in. Request! #500queries
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Q133: PB. Do not rep. Pass. #500queries
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Q132: The pitch for this romance felt derivative instead of inspired by. Pass. #500queries
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Q131: I love me some fantasy horror. Request. #500queries
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Q130: Normally, I’m fatigued by this concept in F, but today, I was intrigued. Hesitant request. #500queries
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Q129: “there are no comp titles to this book.” Everything has a comp. If you can’t find one, you haven’t done your legwork. Pass. #500queries
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Q128: Guarantee you this fantasy novelist has never read a contemporary fantasy novel. Pass. #500queries
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Q127: I got a whole lot of themes in this query and absolutely no plot. Pass. #500queries
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Q126: Memoir. Do not rep. Pass. #500queries
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Q125: There wasn’t anything wrong with this SF, per se. It just didn’t grab me. I think it was the characters that didn’t shine here. Pass. #500queries
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Q124: MG. Do not rep. Pass. #500queries
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Q123: Too many proper nouns in a fantasy or science fiction does not make me want to request a book. Pass. #500queries
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Q122: I didn’t like the MC in this YA pitch. Pass. #500queries