Laura Zats
@LZats
Founder & Agent @HeadwaterLit . Host of the award-winning @printrunpodcast . Publishers Weekly industry MVP. She/her.
Twin Cities, MN
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Laura Zats @LZats · 12 Sep 2018
If your YA could be described as "fluff" by "serious" non-YA readers, query me! #MSWL
Laura Zats @LZats · 12 Sep 2018
If the protagonist in your YA has weird-ass enthusiasms, I want to read about them #MSWL
Laura Zats @LZats · 12 Sep 2018
If you writing haunting, lyrical YA or adult SFF, I also want to see it. #MSWL
Laura Zats @LZats · 22 Feb 2018
I want YA with NB protagonists. I want to see the whole LGBTQ+ spectrum normalized and represented. #MSWL
Laura Zats @LZats · 22 Feb 2018
I want YA that gives equal weight to "small" things (friends, grades, etc) and "big" things (bringing justice to the world). It's all connected! #MSWL
Laura Zats @LZats · 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!The Chocolate War posed the question "Do I dare disturb the universe?" I want a book that barrels right past that question and into HOW. Give me YA where teens are changing the world #MSWL
Laura Zats @LZats · 12 Sep 2017
I love luscious, lyrical writing in YA--think Stiefvater, Black, and more. #MSWL
Laura Zats @LZats · 12 Sep 2017
YA that has a romance but the two don't end up together in the end. Give me hopeful instead of an HEA #MSWL
Laura Zats @LZats · 12 Sep 2017
YA where the parents are like, real characters. Not dead. Not absent. But there and actually parents #MSWL
Laura Zats @LZats · 12 Sep 2017
I want MG and YA (not exclusively though) w/ charas of color who aren't just white kids with a tan in terms of how they see the world #MSWL
Laura Zats @LZats · 23 Apr 2017
#MSWL YA comedy mirroring Harold&Kumar where two teens go on an epic roadtrip for plan B (bc there's no easy access). Feelings and fun occur
Laura Zats @LZats · 15 Mar 2017
New desperate #MSWL: A YA or adult romantic comedy of errors set at an SFF convention.
Laura Zats @LZats · 8 Feb 2017
Do you have historical YA, romance, or SFF? Is it set in a place/time not often written about? #MSWL