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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Q304: 45k is only acceptable for kidlit. Also, query was way too short so it didn't make a ton of sense #500queries #everyquery
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Q303: "I offer my unique, 112k YA"—already lost me. Too long, and unique is the single worst word to use in a query #500queries #everyquery
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Q302: C MG. Kind of literary, but fun. Req! #500queries #everyquery
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Q301: YA. Kind of issue-y. Pass. #500queries #everyquery
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Q300: 100-page version of SOPHIE'S WORLD, but bad. #500queries #everyquery
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Q299: 60k adult fantasy. About angels. Pass. #500queries #everyquery
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Q298: R. Strong heroine meets bad boy, but with an interesting twist. Request! #500queries #everyquery
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Q297: YA, demons, and lots of grammar errors. Pass. #500queries #everyquery
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Q296: Vamps. No. #500queries #everyquery
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Q295: YA about a plus-size slam poet youtube sensation. I'll bite. #500queries #everyquery
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Q294: "There are multiple characters different from each other." *headdesk* #500queries #everyquery
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Q293: Dexter-y YA that's a lot like one of my authors' WIPs. Pass. #500queries #everyquery
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Q292: SF. Mind reader stuff. This is a hard sell for me. Pass #500queries #everyquery
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Q291: YA. Demons. Must be a day that ends in -y. #500queries #everyquery
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Q290: NF offering to turn it into fiction for me. No thanks #500queries #everyquery
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Q289: YA. Dystopia and religious chosen one. No thanks! #500queries #everyquery
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Q288: Romance. Love triangles. Meh. #500queries #everyquery
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Q287: YA retelling of a book commonly taken as "romantic" but one I see as "problematic." Pass. #500queries #everyquery
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Q286: Diverse YA SF (yay!) but I wasn't quite connecting to the concept (boo). Pass. #500queries #everyquery
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Q285: MG. Kind of like THE MAGIC TREEHOUSE but not as fun. Pass. #500queries #everyquery