Laura Zats

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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· 5 May 2023

Unfortunately, I'm unable to participate in #APIpit today as I'm buried under contracts, but I'd LOVE to see your queries in my inbox! My #MSWL and link to submit is here: headwaterliterary.com

· 16 Feb 2023

I love a Murder Book that somehow also feels like a warm hug #MSWL

· 16 Feb 2023

I love beautiful historical fiction that reminds us that trans people have always been here #mswl

Historical

· 16 Feb 2023

I love litfic that tricks Very Serious Contemporary Readers into reading about magic #mswl

· 16 Feb 2023

I love YA that in its surface is about monsters or magic but is actually about family or community or growing up #mswl

· 16 Feb 2023

Are you winky-nodding to the audience with a story that feels like the most fun D&D session you've ever played? Cool. Or does your SF break hearts with how unflinchingly it depicts the human condition? I'll take a look. #MSWL

· 16 Feb 2023

I am a HUGE sucker for books that cross genres or that pull in familiar tropes from other genres. Want to put a heist inside a romance? Here for it. #MSWL

· 16 Feb 2023

In all things, I am looking for compassionate writing, community-focused politics, strong BIPOC and LGBTQ+ representation, and to have lots of feelings and/or fun while reading

LGBT
BIPOC

· 16 Feb 2023

I'm closed to queries for the next couple months for dedicated reading time, but in honor of #MSWL Day I redid my MSWL! I am looking for all types of romance, SFF (plus horror), mysteries, thrillers, YA, and some small subsets of literary and commercial fiction!

· 30 Jun 2022

My kingdom for a book featuring a sex worker who doesn’t wind up dead or horribly punished in some way #mswl

· 25 Jan 2022

sara @saraofswords

an adventuring party that forms in the women’s bathroom of the tavern because someone is crying and random drunk girls at a bar will do anything for you

Okay but this would be incredible #mswl

· 8 Nov 2021

Forever waiting on a Lake Superior horror novel #MSWL

Horror

· 29 Nov 2020

Writers, I'm back open to queries, with a few added genres and updated #MSWL! Head on over to headwaterliterary.com to learn more and submit.

I look forward to reading your work!

· 24 Nov 2020

rebecca mix says donate to warnock & ossoff @mixbecca

what if horse girls are like that bc they’re secretly vying for their place as one of the next four horsemen of the apocalypse

Okay so I’m not usually a fan of Christian apocalypse stuff but, uh, #mswl

· 19 Nov 2020

Laura (Closed to Queries) Zats @LZats

My little treat to myself today is rewriting my #mswl. I think you’re all in for some fun surprises 😉

Pssst—I’ve put my new #mswl featuring some shiny new categories up on the @HeadwaterLit site!

· 5 Mar 2020

Laura Zats @LZats

Me: *going to be very chill about agents flying into my city*

Also me: hey @ericsmithrocks you’re three blocks from where Hemingway was born and lemme tell you real quick about Saint Paul during prohibition and why the gangsters hung out here and also who lives where and why

Listen, I have a deep and abiding #mswl about John O’Connor and Nina Clifford

· 20 Sep 2019

Why don't I ever see an "I'm in love with my BFF's ex but am not allowed to date him" book end with the BFFs dating? #MSWL

· 10 Mar 2019

L. D. Lewis 🦊 @Ellethevillain

The world needs more botanical fiction. More stories about Victorian orchid hunting and the horrors of obsession and forests of explorers entombed in carnivorous trees for treading in places they don't belong.

#mswl

· 8 Feb 2019

Sam B. Farkas @SamBFarkas

I hope we'll see more Jewish second-world fantasy. Jewish culture is full of myths and magic that would be fresh and breathtaking in a fantasy setting.

#futureofJewishbooks

*raises hand as high as it will go* #MSWL

· 12 Sep 2018

If your YA could be described as "fluff" by "serious" non-YA readers, query me! #MSWL

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