Laura Mazer
WSA | Wendy Sherman Associates
My Manuscript Wish List®
My Manuscript Wish List® Items
Laura Mazer specializes in adult nonfiction with a focus on culture and lifestyle, intelligent pop culture, health and wellness, counterintuitive advice, packaged gift or “concept” books, and books that take us on geeky deep dives into fascinating facets of everyday life. She also adores history, biography, and celebrations of literary legacies, especially when they offer fresh stories about women. She also represents select commercial upmarket fiction.
A longtime advocate for underrepresented voices, Laura sits on the board of The OpEd Project and teaches publishing seminars at Left Margin Lit, a writing center in Berkeley. Before becoming an agent, Laura was managing editor of the global news agency representing some of the most influential writers of the day, including Hillary Clinton and Arianna Huffington.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions should be emailed to submissions@wsherman.com
Please send a query and complete proposal to submissions@wsherman.com, and include “Laura Mazer” in the subject line.
Vital Info
Favorite sub-genres:
"Big Idea/Think", #ownvoices, 'big think', Accessible Literary Fiction, Adult, Biography, Biography & Memoir, Book Club, Books about books, California, Commercial Women's Fiction, Commercial adult fiction, Commercial and Literary, Complicated Relationships, Contemporary Culture, Contemporary Inspirational Romance, Cultural Criticism, Domestic Fiction, Drink, Feminism, Feminist, Health, Health and Wellness, Health and healing, History, Humor, Illustrated, Illustrated/Gift, Inspirational, Intersectional Feminism, Investigative Journalism, Issue-Driven, Layered Family Stories with multiple narrators, Layered Rom-Coms and Comedy of Manners with a cultural component, Leadership, Literary Crossover, Mind/Body/Spirit, Minority Voices, Modern Dating, Modern Retellings of Fairy Tales, Modernized Mythologies, Monsters, Mothers and Daughters, Narrative, Narrative Nonfiction, Neurodiversity, Outdoors, Parenting, Personal Development, Pop Culture, Pop History, Pop Psychology, Pop Science, Popular Science/Psychology, Rom-com, RomCom, Romantic Comedy, Self-help, Shakespeare Retellings, Smart Beach Reads, Social Issues, Social Justice, Somatics, Strong Females, Time Travel, True Crime, Underrepresented Voices, Upmarket Fiction, Upmarket Women's Fiction, Wellness, Wisdom, Women's Fiction, Women's Issues, alternate history, book club fiction, campus novel, celebrity, classic retellings, comedy, coming of age, commercial, commerical, commerical women's fiction, contemporary, craft, culinary, current affairs, dark academia, family saga, family stories, feminine narratives, folklore history, gender, health and fitness, historical, historical romance, invisible disability, literary, music, narrative non-fiction, nonfiction, rom-coms, witchcraft, witty
I’d like the next…
I’d like to represent the next …
- Iconic empowerment guide, like What Would Frida Do?: A Guide to Living Boldly by Arianna Davis
- Positive psychology, like You Only Die Once: How to Make it to the End with No Regrets by Jodi Wellman
- Commentary on gender and culture, like Shame On You: How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification by Melissa Petro
- Pop culture fascination, like From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Women Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars by Virginia Grohl/foreword by Dave Grohl
- Gift book with a literary or cultural bent, like Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist by Tim Federlie and Romaine Wasn’t Built in a Day by Judith Tschann
- Fresh takes on lifestyle concepts, like Taming the Potted Beast: The Strange and Sensational History of the Not-So-Humble Houseplant by Molly Williams and The CHAOS Cure: Clean Your House and Calm Your Soul in 15 Minutes by Marla Cilley, aka The Fly Lady
