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30 Minute Agent AMA Auction item '30 Minute Agent AMA' hosted online at 32auctions.

I'm also offering a 30-minute AMA--come ask me questions about your book! We can workshop your query! We can fill in some plot holes! The world is your oyster! www.32auctions.com/organization...

All About Comps Agent Seminar Auction item 'All About Comps Agent Seminar' hosted online at 32auctions.

For the @litagentsofchange.bsky.social auction, I'm offering tickets to an online class about comp titles! If you've ever been frustrated/afraid/confused about how to use comps as you're querying, grab a ticket! It'll be fun! www.32auctions.com/organization...

🚨🚨🚨Erik is back open to queries!🚨🚨🚨

Send him your most Scandinavian of fiction, real or fake bird stuff, Communist everything, and a bunch of other stuff listed below!

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Today I am officially open again for new book pitches. You will find details on how to do that on our site. I am going to do a quick thread here on some things I'd love to see in my query inbox this year.

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Happy publication day to Eoin Higgins, whose new book OWNED is now available wherever books are sold! If you want to understand how we reached this crisis point at the confluence of tech, media, and venture capital, this is THE book.

We've got a cover for @lucylehane.bsky.social's THIRSTY!

congratulations to @smhallow.bsky.social on the deal announcement! this will be a very fun one

S. M. Hallow's THE HALLS OF THE DEAD, a queer, gothic romance set in Victorian London, in which a woman who has dedicated her life to protecting the necromantic secrets held in sentient grimoires bound with human skin brings her murdered beloved back to life with dire consequences, to David Pomerico at Voyager, in a good deal, at auction, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2026, by Laura Zats at Headwater Literary Management (world).

One of my biggest-kept secrets of 2024 went live today! Congrats @smhallow.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉

We've learned that someone is impersonating Erik over email and maybe even by phone. We are working to address this of course. In the meantime, remember that no reputable agent--including and especially a Headwater agent!--will ask you for up-front money as part of a rep. agreement.

Tbh writing any book for traditional publication is by definition a long shot. And every single element of our lives is politicized, so from where I’m sitting? Write the book you can’t stand to not write. If it’s off-trend market-wise, just wait. It’ll come around again.

Hi, I'm Erik. I'm a literary agent and one of the founders of @headwaterlit.bsky.social. I also host @printrunpodcast.bsky.social, a show about the publishing industry that, if you followed me because of that publishing starter pack, you will love. I do both these things with @lzats.bsky.social.

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