Laura Zats

I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.

It’s been like 6 in a row at this point. Last finished book was sister, Maiden, Monster!

Frankly, none of my fellow body-horror-reading local library users are reading at an acceptably expeditious speed. I EXPECT YOU TO BE FREAKS ABOUT THIS WITH ME.

Are you sailing for adventure on the Big Blue Wet Thing???

Angel Country In an alternate early 1900s, a xenobiologist hunts down her former research partner after he steals her life’s work before his greed reshapes the w...

anyway guys please pre order my book about an angry scientist who drops cosmic horrors on Long Island it's coming out this October and I am super proud of my weird eye-bally child:

www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angel-...

I know they're only cutting them down because they won't survive the (good for people and good for the lake) construction that will be happening but I AM SO SAD ABOUT IT. You can have 5 months of construction but must you ALSO kill my tree???

Someone please tell me about how it turned out just fine, actually, when the city cut down their tree and then eventually planted another one. St. Paul Forestry has been by and I am bereft 😩

Good morning, Erik

Today at the grocery store, a woman very longingly asked me how it took for my hair to go gray, because she’s impatient for hers to look like mine.

I didn’t have the heart to tell her that I found my first at 13; my secret is genetics and a severe anxiety disorder 🤷🏻‍♀️

We are the consequences We, collectively, are the condition that makes their defeat inevitable.

It’s obvious to anyone of conscience that we do not currently have the country we want. I have a feeling that, soon, the fascists are going to find out that they don’t either. www.welcometohellworld.com/we-are-the-c...

The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley (Austentatious, #2… Being snubbed by Mr Darcy—passed over for Elizabeth Ben…

There are TWENTY print copies of The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley up for grabs over on Goodreads giveaways! If you're a US or Canadian user, here's your chance to grab one for free!

We’ll make space for you!

Yep! If you sent it there we have it!

I've never read Don DeLillo. Erik has never read a smutty hockey novel. This is going to be HILARIOUS.

We are the consequences We, collectively, are the condition that makes their defeat inevitable.

Another striking and defiant piece by @erikhane.bsky.social writing from besieged Minneapolis.

"I have come to believe something else too: we are the consequences. We, collectively, are the condition that makes their defeat inevitable."

www.welcometohellworld.com/we-are-the-c...

In case you don't know what this means: you send us the pitch for your book. We mark it up in Word and send it back, with advice on how to sharpen it. You send $100, all of which goes to feed families sheltering in place here in the twin cities.

Reminder that we're doing a query critique donation drive for a shelter-in-place program here in MSP. Going well so far--we're at about $1700 and would love to get to like $2500. Come get your pitch critiqued!

We’re still running this fundraiser—if you or someone you know needs a query critique, jump in!

A brindle pit bull with a pink collar with a floral fabric flower pinned to it

It’s amazing what putting a flower on your dog does for your mental health

Episode 184—The Hanger Games This week we talk about the shifting nature of the politics/culture nonfiction book market–who do publishers imagine their readers to be? How does the broader political horizon change which sorts of b

NEW EPISODE

We talked about working on the nonfiction politics book market, and working on those books when politics is now very concretely right in front of your face
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Yes! The directions are downthread—Venmo or PayPal!

Cashapp! It’s ChefCollective1123

We’re doing a query drive to raise money to help relieve acute food insecurity among families sheltering in place. Come through!

planning an absolute heater of a @printrunpodcast.bsky.social episode that we're recording tomorrow

(It should go without saying but we are a No Questions Asked kinda place. I don’t need you to prove to me why you cannot afford to purchase a slot and/or why you deserve one. We’re all in this together!)

If you're a writer who could use a query critique but can't donate to this fundraiser, DM me! We have some gifted slots ready and available for the taking!

As always we give 100% of what we receive to the program. We’ll show receipts. You get pitch feedback, families get fed. Everyone wins. Let’s go

The program we're funding is entirely volunteer-run, which means that 100% of your money will go DIRECTLY to purchasing nutritious, culturally-appropriate, and ethically sourced food for members of Twin Cities communities.

As always, we will accept gift slots! If you have money to give but don't need a critique, let us know you'd like to purchase a gift critique and we'll give it to someone in the writing community who cannot otherwise afford one.

Here's how it's going to work:
Send $ to us, along with an email with your query, and we'll critique it via track changes!

$100 for one round of critique
$200 for two rounds (we send notes back, you make changes, we make notes again)

Paypal: Printrunpodcast@gmail.com
Venmo: Laura-Zats