
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!
- #mswl (213)
- #tenqueries (92)
- #100Queries (1)
- #100partials (20)
- #500queries (3011)
- #querytip (22)
- #pubtip (140)
- #askagent (149)
- #askprintrun (27)

Literary Agent
Q323: Political time travel. Meh. #500queries #everyquery

Literary Agent
Q322: Another synopsis as a query. Auto-reject #500queries #everyquery

Literary Agent
Q321: CYA Interesting setting, but not in love with the plot. Pass #500queries #everyquery

Literary Agent
Q320: If your fantasy is heavily inspired by Tolkien, I'm not your girl. Love it, but it doesn't fit my list #500queries #everyquery

Literary Agent
Q319: Pulpy (and not in the fun way) SF. Pass. #500queries #everyquery

Literary Agent
Q318:Im all for books with sports in them, but I can't get behind a query that's one long string of sports metaphors #500queries #everyquery

Literary Agent
Q317: Another issue book for YA. These are not my jam. #500queries #everyquery

Literary Agent
Q316: Adult contemporary fiction. Not in my categories. #500queries #everyquery

Literary Agent
Q315 Interesting YASF, but is a little too similar to a book I lost out on a while ago, and I'm still sore. Pass. #500queries #everyquery

Literary Agent
Q314: "I will query until I sign with someone." Isn't that always how that always works? #500queries #everyquery

Literary Agent
Q313: I know it's nitpicky, but I will always reject if a QL doesn't follow the standard form #500queries #everyquery

Literary Agent
Q312: SF. Underwhelming. Pass #500queries #everyquery

Literary Agent
Q311: Query that makes no sense. Not a single cent. #500queries #everyquery

Literary Agent
Q310: C NA. Rather unremarkable. Meh. #500queries #everyquery

Literary Agent
Q309: More TWILIGHT spinoffs. Excuse me while I jump for joy. #500queries #everyquery #sarcasm

Literary Agent
Q308: SF. Got bored after about 3 sentences of the query. Pass/ #500queries #everyquery

Literary Agent
Q305: Thriller. Still don't rep these. Promise. #500queries #everyquery

Literary Agent
Q304: 45k is only acceptable for kidlit. Also, query was way too short so it didn't make a ton of sense #500queries #everyquery

Literary Agent
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

Literary Agent
Q301: YA. Kind of issue-y. Pass. #500queries #everyquery
