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!
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Literary Agent
I love YA that in its surface is about monsters or magic but is actually about family or community or growing up #mswl
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Literary Agent
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!
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If your YA could be described as "fluff" by "serious" non-YA readers, query me! #MSWL
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If the protagonist in your YA has weird-ass enthusiasms, I want to read about them #MSWL
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Literary Agent
If you writing haunting, lyrical YA or adult SFF, I also want to see it. #MSWL
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I want YA with NB protagonists. I want to see the whole LGBTQ+ spectrum normalized and represented. #MSWL
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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
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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
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I love luscious, lyrical writing in YA--think Stiefvater, Black, and more. #MSWL
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YA that has a romance but the two don't end up together in the end. Give me hopeful instead of an HEA #MSWL
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YA where the parents are like, real characters. Not dead. Not absent. But there and actually parents #MSWL
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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
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YA friendship stories #MSWL
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YA and MG horror. Scare the beejesus out of me #MSWL
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Uproariously funny YA that also breaks my heart #MSWL
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Contemporary YA witch family that doesn't take place in Salem #MSWL
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#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
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#mswl YA or adult romance about a hiplet dancer
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New desperate #MSWL: A YA or adult romantic comedy of errors set at an SFF convention.