Laura Zats

@LZats

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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· 12 Sep 2018

If your SF/F is bordering on horror, tell me about it! #MSWL

· 12 Sep 2018

If the protagonist in your YA has weird-ass enthusiasms, I want to read about them #MSWL

YA

· 12 Sep 2018

If your book contains a heist, mash that send button #MSWL

Heist

· 12 Sep 2018

If your worlds are non-Western in inspiration, hit me up #MSWL

· 12 Sep 2018

#MSWL if your MS contains the following hobbies/interests, consider me intrigued:
beer
bourbon
tea
cheese
baking
cooking
boxing
fencing
tabletop gaming
themed festivals

· 12 Sep 2018

If your romance has an enemies-to-lovers and/or a forced-proximity trope I'm in. #MSWL

Romance

· 12 Sep 2018

If your romance hero is Wounded but Soft, I'm in #MSWL

Romance

· 12 Sep 2018

If everyone in your book is queer, I want to see it #MSWL

LGBT

· 12 Sep 2018

If a reader thinks that your book is SF and a completely different reader is CONVINCED that it's LitFic, I want to see it #MSWL

Sci-fi

· 12 Sep 2018

If you writing haunting, lyrical YA or adult SFF, I also want to see it. #MSWL

· 12 Sep 2018

Laura Zats @LZats

Hello #MSWL followers! I am closed to queries through the end of the year, but I'm going to tweet a few things for when I reopen.

Follow along!

If you write dialogue like Joss Whedon, Rob Thomas, or Amy Sherman-Palladino, send it to me. #MSWL

· 31 Aug 2018

Brandon @brandonlgtaylor

Wait. Entry-level.

Does that mean there are....managerial witches? CEO witches? Director Witches? HOW DOES A WITCH GET PROMOTED. I AM IMMEDIATELY INTRIGUED.

👀 twitter.com/qz/status/1035…

Witch

· 29 Jul 2018

Karen @ Books & Chocolate @Karen_BooksChoc

@antimytheme @pronounced_ing My first Jane Austen Society convention as in a hotel across the street from an Edgar Allen Poe’s convention. I did wonder what a mixer of the two groups would have been like.

· 25 Jul 2018

John Kane @gritfish

Everyone talks about the "Bury your gays" trope but what about "Dig up your gays"? Where are all the queer necromancers?

· 20 Apr 2018

Nivia Evans @NiviaEvans

#editorwant: Female protagonists in fantasy 30 and over.

Fantasy

· 31 Mar 2018

Lily 💋 Anderson @ms_lilyanderson

It turns out all I want is pastoral fantasy. Like if Tolkein wrote about the economy and family dynamics of the Shire for an entire series.

Actually, me too. #mswl

· 22 Mar 2018

Rebecca Brewer @RebeccaTheGeek

Love this! pic.twitter.com/Gmmx6wdhZ2

uh...#MSWL

· 22 Feb 2018

Laura Zats @LZats

One week from today, I open back up to queries. I figured now would be a good time to go through my #MSWL!

Of course, the best books are sometimes the one you didn't know you needed! If your book is in my categories but doesn't match this #MSWL, query anyway!

· 22 Feb 2018

Also, i *might* bond like a duckling if your MC is plus size (but is just living their best life) and into vintage. #mswl

· 22 Feb 2018

Other random things I love in real life that I would like to see in a book:
-fancy dress parties
-baking
-fencing/boxing
-board games/tabletop games
-tattoos
-beer
-cheese
-tea
#MSWL