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
Laura Zats @LZats
It's 2021; it's time to stop comping to Harry PotterThis also applies to Lord of the Rings and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #pubtip
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Reminder: a good agency reputation is great, but always, ALWAYS make sure you're comfortable with the way your agent works beyond social media and advertising.
#pubtip
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#pubtip: it's a good thing when an agent offers to have you chat with their existing clients before you sign with them. Make sure you speak to their published AND unpublished authors!
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Literary Agent
Laura Zats @LZats
My biggest and best #pubtip for querying authors: always, ALWAYS look at an agent's listing on Absolute Write. Someone might seem professional because there's a lot of ways to hide scams in this biz. Read the forums.Second #pubtip: Agency reputations and rankings can obscure a LOT of bad. If you're seeing agents talk only about these things and you're not hearing any authors tooting their horn, something is deeply wrong. ALWAYS ASK OTHER AUTHORS.
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My biggest and best #pubtip for querying authors: always, ALWAYS look at an agent's listing on Absolute Write. Someone might seem professional because there's a lot of ways to hide scams in this biz. Read the forums.
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One thing NOT to do when querying is "I see you have an interest in X. While my book doesn't have that, it does have [something only tangentially related to X]"
#pubtip
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<climbs onto gigantic soapbox>
<clears throat>
DO NOT INSULT THE GENRE YOU ARE TRYING TO BE PUBLISHED IN!
#pubtip
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DECEMBIRD @printrunpodcast
Welcome to Season 2! We catch up on the past few weeks' news, everything from the embarrassing Amazon stuff and the Kirkus star controversy twitter.com/printrunpodcas…Also included:
—Podcast Wine (TM)
—Why we're bad gamblers
—#pubtip for everyone!
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DECEMBIRD @printrunpodcast
New epi! Kakutani and modern book reviews, that dumb Comey memoir, and Ayn Rand snitching on the commiessoundcloud.com/printrunpodcas…
Also included:
—Laura's Hot Takes on wine
—An entirely not-facetious #pubtip
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Are you not getting good responses on your query? Send to printrunpodcast@gmail.com and we'll critique it (anon) on-air for you! #pubtip
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Are you #amquerying? Tune into Print Run's special #query episode for some mega #pubtip action! itun.es/i6hQ9Lb
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