Notes from the Armchair: A Good Reminder
By Laura Zats I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to say that everyone who might ever consider reading this agrees with the fact…
By Laura Zats I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to say that everyone who might ever consider reading this agrees with the fact…
By Laura Zats Agents. We’re all the same. All of us are sitting behind our computers, yelling into the void, asking for someone to send…
By Laura Zats I am an editor. Since 2011, I have (officially, for money) been taking other people’s writing, restructuring it, and making it better. More…
By Laura Zats So here’s the thing, readers. I’m a literary agent. I rep romance and erotica. I even read it in my spare time. I…
By Laura Zats This past week, #MSWL was trending on Twitter. Although #MSWL tweets are made throughout the year, semi-annually, there is a designated day where…
By Laura Zats Literary agents have a lot of mottos. Fight for your author, no matter what. Beer makes everything better. But the most prevalent, and…
By Laura Zats Twenty years ago, any author who wrote for teens or middle grade wouldn’t have been considered “serious” writers. Even now, there’s still an…
By Laura Zats Two weekends ago, I fled the Twin Cities for a five-day reprieve in the cornfields of Iowa. I was visiting my alma…