Laura Zats

Q130: I am waiting for a good alien book, but this one doesn’t feel fresh enough. Pass. #500queries

Q128: Para. This one might be a total GIMME for another agent, but it didn’t grab me at all. Pass. #500queries

Q127: YA F. Really interesting idea, but very clumsy writing, which makes me worry about the prose in the book. Pass. #500queries

Q126: I am burnt out on dream-based fantasies. Pass. #500queries

Q124: I don’t know what it is, but there’s SO MANY historical baseball books and they’re all about making friends with black people in the face of all the odds! Pass. #500queries

Q123: This C YA feels very vague. Pass. #500queries

Q121: Not a query. Just a request if we rep films. Pass. #500queries

Q119: This paranormal does ALL the wrong things. Telling me you ONLY want to work with one publisher, demanding a response in two weeks, and accusing me of wanting to steal the synopsis. Pass. #500queries

Q118: Queries like this C YA are hard, because i can see the market, it’s perfectly pitched, and yet, I’m not excited about it. Proof that querying is as much about finding the RIGHT agent as it is everything else. Pass. #500queries

Q117: SF, but too didactic. I like to find my own lessons in the books I read. Pass. #500queries

Q116: Do not, I repeat, DO NOT query a project you’re not done writing! Pass. #500queries

Q115: MG. As I’m winding down on this category, a project really needs to shine. This one was fine, but not It. Pass. #500queries

Q113: obvious morality lesson in any type of fiction means a pass from me. #500queries

Q112: Chosen one + rhetorical questions = pass. #500queries

Q111: I love romance in my F, but this one felt out of balance. Pass. #500queries

Q110: If you’re drafting a series and the main thrust is an event that happens at the end of the first book, you started the series a book too soon. Pass. #500queries

Q107: I am not a fan of magical items giving kids powers. Pass. #500queries

Q106: YA SF. I don’t think anything’s wrong with this one. I just personally don’t get it? Pass. #500queries

Q103: memoir. Do not rep. #500queries

Q102: If you’re writing dragons, there needs to be a fresh hook. This one didn’t have that. Pass. #500queries