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Laura Zats

@lzats.bsky.social

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Founder & Agent, Headwater Literary Management. Host of the award-winning Print Run Podcast. AALA Member. Treasurer for Literary Agents of Change. Publishers Weekly industry MVP. She/her & Ms/Mx. Open to queries!

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 12h

open war by the federal government against the state of Minnesota. going to keep saying it

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 12h

oh awesome they just told me why there's a problem lol. It's because there's a federal restriction on international transfers coming out of my specific county in MN because of the "Somali Fraud" thing. wonderful country

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 12h

once again I am explaining to a bank that "Harlequin" is not a person I am doing scams with

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/10/2026

This is such important work, and the thing to keep in mind is that when AI people tell you that games will be personalized for you, this is the kind of thing they are more likely to mean.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/10/2026

And while we're on the subject: there's no ethical use of a product brought to market through unethical means. It doesn't matter whether the product is "AI" or chocolate or diamonds. Most generative "AI" was knowingly developed through massive theft from creatives; we have the emails admitting this.

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I’m sorry but gen-AI is anti-author. You’re not changing that with “guidelines” no matter how many words like “inclusion” you throw on a graphic

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Apart from this being ridiculous on its face from an author advocacy org, it’s also very funny that none of these sentences mean anything. Just abstract nouns devoid of substance

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

theguardian.com

Sally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support

Irish writer of Normal People says she can no longer receive royalties from British sales and she cancelled UK trip due to fear of arrest

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Sally Rooney is such a real one

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Ooo I do enjoy it when Publishers’ Lunch gets snippy about other publishing reporting

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PRINT RUN @printrunpodcast.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Welcome To Another Week Of Books

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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Many people like to laugh at medieval illuminations of stag-snails, oh those funny medieval artists making up anim...

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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

turns out the real National Treasure was the Nicolas Cage we made along the way

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Someone needs to get Paul to understand that not all cat breeds are like Maine Coons. Other breeds include “big” and “orange” and “free” and “rapscallion.” I myself have a Big Whiny Boy.

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My second favorite thing is when Paul very excitedly asked what kind of cat a contestant had and then looked supremely disappointed when the answer was “orange”

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Which is surprising because she’s the first host who ISN’T teased for being a booze-lover

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I was not expecting this type of bite from Ms. Mi-cro-wav-ay and it brings me so much joy

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My favorite thing about this season’s Bake Off is that Nigella looks like she’s discovering where her mouth is every time she takes a bite

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A.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We're going to keep learning this lesson until we die

“The C-suites at Big Five publishing companies have more in common with the C-suites at other major American companies than they do with the editors and publicists and translators who work for them,” says Dan Sinykin, author of Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature. “They’re always looking for ways to maximize profit, and right now they’re trying to see what they can get away with before there’s a revolt.”

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s so wild that this belief is so uncontroversial that the official city account is safe to post it, while at the same time the federal government literally wages war against it

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I KNOW

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Such a big and shiny candle!

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I love these googly-eyed motherfuckers

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

THEY’RE GOOD BUGS! Someone spent hours tucking those little bugs into the rest of it 😭

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

ALSO LOOK AT HOW YOU CAN TELL EACH OF THESE HATS IS SUPPOSED TO BE DIFFERENT MATERIALS! ART!!!

Closeup of a tapestry showing a nubby hat

Closeup of a tapestry showing a man wearing a satin hat

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You’ll have the best time!

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I also love that you can tell by the closeups that these weavers were NOT going to sew up slits unless they absolutely had to 😂

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I had the absolute pleasure to go to the Cloisters with @smhallow.bsky.social on Friday and I’m still crying over the little creatures I didn’t know were in the Unicorn in Captivity tapestry

Tiny dragonfly in a tapestry amidst flowers

A woven frog next to flowers and leaves

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Statistically unlikely uptick in queries using Peng Shepherd’s The Cartographers as a comp so far this month 🧐

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Who was in charge of this kerning don’t worry I just want to talk

A New York City bus with unaligned vertical text reading “touch here to open door”

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(I know I’m being an old codger about this)

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Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I fundamentally reject the premise that we should make it easier to send acknowledgments! If something needs to be acknowledged we can take the time to type “great, thanks!” Otherwise I want no more notifications!

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I will overuse exclamation points like the good lord intended.

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No I will not respond to this work correspondence with a sparkly heart emoji.

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We deserve one (1) form of direct textual communication that doesn’t require constant feedback. Sometimes I just want to get an email and then file it away without alerting someone else!

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They added emoji reactions to emails and I don’t like it

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We never have a cleric 🤷‍♀️

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You don’t let the only guy with healing capabilities be the tank!

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A Paladin is not the tank! The fighter is the tank!

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This explains a lot.

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Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nacho cheese is

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Time for the time-honored tradition, Eat Doritos While Writing Pitches

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

NEW QUEER JANE AUSTEN ALERT!!! IT’S LYDIA AND SHE’S A HOTTIE!

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

ANGEL COUNTRY, by @moonsheen.bsky.social, out from Saga Press on Oct 20!

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

oh thank god

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Alex T Singer, Arbiter of Bagels @moonsheen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

ANGEL COUNTRY is having another Goodreads give away! Enter to have a chance to get a free print copy! www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

As always, one of us is right (me) and one of us is wrong (Erik)

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I shucked and put up over 3 bushels of corn today and my hands HURT but unfortunately past me prepped a new sashiko sampler so 🤷‍♀️

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This was my first try! I bought a sampler

Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Sashiko! Which is a Japanese quilting/mending/embroidery technique!