Lauren Bajek
@laurenbajek.bsky.social
Literary agent at Liza Dawson Associates / open to queries / art, sewing, native plant gardening / another world is possible / she pronouns
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Lauren Bajek
@laurenbajek.bsky.social
· Dec 20
Publishing is a business where you have to be good AND lucky-- so I feel very, very lucky to have had a good year in 2024. A roundup of this year's PM announcements:
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idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see
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November 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
As a former indie bookseller, sometimes one single special order would make me order four copies into stock so I could put it faced out. Buying books with actual money, especially from indie bookstores, makes such a difference.
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
As a former indie bookseller, sometimes one single special order would make me order four copies into stock so I could put it faced out. Buying books with actual money, especially from indie bookstores, makes such a difference.
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We have two - count that, TWO - Solaris books on @NPR's Best Books of 2025 list!
Pinch us, we must be dreaming
🌊 THE DOOR ON THE SEA, epic fantasy by Caskey Russell https://geni.us/doorsea
🖤 THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ, standalone horroromance by @isabelcanas.bsky.social https://geni.us/palbad
Pinch us, we must be dreaming
🌊 THE DOOR ON THE SEA, epic fantasy by Caskey Russell https://geni.us/doorsea
🖤 THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ, standalone horroromance by @isabelcanas.bsky.social https://geni.us/palbad
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
We have two - count that, TWO - Solaris books on @NPR's Best Books of 2025 list!
Pinch us, we must be dreaming
🌊 THE DOOR ON THE SEA, epic fantasy by Caskey Russell https://geni.us/doorsea
🖤 THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ, standalone horroromance by @isabelcanas.bsky.social https://geni.us/palbad
Pinch us, we must be dreaming
🌊 THE DOOR ON THE SEA, epic fantasy by Caskey Russell https://geni.us/doorsea
🖤 THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ, standalone horroromance by @isabelcanas.bsky.social https://geni.us/palbad
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Are we doing awards eligibility posts already? Mine is simple: The GIrl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For, published in Reactor 4/2025. It's got romance in dystopia and mild superpowers and complicated trans feelings about body-swapping, and it's free to read reactormag.com/the-girl-tha...
The Girl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For - Reactor
In a corporate-run dystopia, a trans girl plucked out of poverty to give birth to a clone meets her replacement.
reactormag.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Are we doing awards eligibility posts already? Mine is simple: The GIrl That My Mother Is Leaving Me For, published in Reactor 4/2025. It's got romance in dystopia and mild superpowers and complicated trans feelings about body-swapping, and it's free to read reactormag.com/the-girl-tha...
This is so heartwarming, she seems like a true gem.
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This is so heartwarming, she seems like a true gem.
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Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
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Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.
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I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
Incredible to see THE DOOR ON THE SEA in on this list!
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
apps.npr.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Incredible to see THE DOOR ON THE SEA in on this list!
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Awards season is upon us!
On December 1st, voting for the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards will officially open 🩷
Today, I'm sharing a mock ballot with the final slate of categories, the voting rules, and the schedule for the awards on the request of those who want to prepare their ballots early.
On December 1st, voting for the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards will officially open 🩷
Today, I'm sharing a mock ballot with the final slate of categories, the voting rules, and the schedule for the awards on the request of those who want to prepare their ballots early.
2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards Mock Ballot
AWARDS SCHEDULE Monday, December 1st: Indie Press nominations announced, voting opens Sunday, December 7th: Best Fiction Longlist released Sunday, December 21st: Shortlists for the five marquee cat...
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November 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Awards season is upon us!
On December 1st, voting for the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards will officially open 🩷
Today, I'm sharing a mock ballot with the final slate of categories, the voting rules, and the schedule for the awards on the request of those who want to prepare their ballots early.
On December 1st, voting for the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards will officially open 🩷
Today, I'm sharing a mock ballot with the final slate of categories, the voting rules, and the schedule for the awards on the request of those who want to prepare their ballots early.
OK, but today's is a gimme 😂
Launch day 🚀
We’ve just released @chartlecc.bsky.social - a daily chart game!
Your job is to guess which country is represented by the red line in today's chart. You get 5 tries, no other clues!
Play today, come back tomorrow for a different chart with new data and share with your chart friends 📈
We’ve just released @chartlecc.bsky.social - a daily chart game!
Your job is to guess which country is represented by the red line in today's chart. You get 5 tries, no other clues!
Play today, come back tomorrow for a different chart with new data and share with your chart friends 📈
Chartle - A daily chart game
Guess the country in red by analysing today's chart
chartle.cc
November 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
OK, but today's is a gimme 😂
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28/11 at 7pm GMT, join us for our next Solaris Presents event with World Fantasy Award-winner @csecooney.bsky.social & Caskey Russell as they explore the Bravery of Hope in Fantasy worlds in crisis.
Watch FREE wherever you are in the world. Live or on catch up: https://geni.us/SPCSECCK
Watch FREE wherever you are in the world. Live or on catch up: https://geni.us/SPCSECCK
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
28/11 at 7pm GMT, join us for our next Solaris Presents event with World Fantasy Award-winner @csecooney.bsky.social & Caskey Russell as they explore the Bravery of Hope in Fantasy worlds in crisis.
Watch FREE wherever you are in the world. Live or on catch up: https://geni.us/SPCSECCK
Watch FREE wherever you are in the world. Live or on catch up: https://geni.us/SPCSECCK
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The Devourers will change you.
My Lambda Award-winning debut novel THE DEVOURERS, a dark, queer, mythic realist tale about sex, love, violence, & shapeshifting, has finally surpassed 20k sales. Those may be rookie numbers to many authors, but for me, it's a big deal, even if not big money. Sincerest gratitude to my readers 🖤
The Devourers by Indra Das: 9781101967539 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
For readers of Margaret Atwood, China Miéville, and David Mitchell comes a striking debut novel by a storyteller of keen insight and captivating imagination. LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER •...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The Devourers will change you.
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I don't know who needs to hear this - time to launch campaign to pass the 28th Amendment: allow naturalized citizens to run for POTUS.
It'd be a good marker of pendulum swing from the era of President Miller.
Let's go.
It'd be a good marker of pendulum swing from the era of President Miller.
Let's go.
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I don't know who needs to hear this - time to launch campaign to pass the 28th Amendment: allow naturalized citizens to run for POTUS.
It'd be a good marker of pendulum swing from the era of President Miller.
Let's go.
It'd be a good marker of pendulum swing from the era of President Miller.
Let's go.
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huge news for Magic the Gathering fans
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's resigning from Congress — effective January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM
huge news for Magic the Gathering fans
Alex Sarr 🤝 Hangman Adam Page
November 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Alex Sarr 🤝 Hangman Adam Page
It was a three-man team that took the Grok hardpoint that day, and two of us were just there to guard the poet.Whistler was a sonnet slinger fresh from the Guatemalan meter wars, still waking up with the taste of a bloody metonym on his tongue.
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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happy transgender day of remembrance
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
November 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
happy transgender day of remembrance
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
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lol, 2019 sure was a different time.
November 20, 2025 at 1:09 AM
lol, 2019 sure was a different time.
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"The Barnes and Noble in York—where Fetterman was born and raised—had sold zero copies. The Barnes and Noble in Philadelphia had sold two copies. An independent store in Pittsburgh and an independent store in Philadelphia each told me they weren’t stocking Unfettered" defector.com/john-fetterm...
John Fetterman's Memoir Is As Low-Effort As His Senate Tenure | Defector
John Fetterman’s just-released memoir, Unfettered, argues that he’s turned a corner and has everything under control. Fetterman was a “stubborn asshole” (his words), he was clinically depressed, he wa...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"The Barnes and Noble in York—where Fetterman was born and raised—had sold zero copies. The Barnes and Noble in Philadelphia had sold two copies. An independent store in Pittsburgh and an independent store in Philadelphia each told me they weren’t stocking Unfettered" defector.com/john-fetterm...
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Fetterman's relaxed approach to work was well-known to everyone in the Mon Valley; while mayor of Braddock Borough, he seldom, if ever, attended council meetings.
No one from the national media, though, asked anyone from Braddock about that; they were busy building him up as the Great White Hope.
No one from the national media, though, asked anyone from Braddock about that; they were busy building him up as the Great White Hope.
I present my review of "Unfettered," John Fetterman's memoir. In between petty grievances about doing his job, Fetterman asserts that he's feeling good.
Two days after "Unfettered" came out, Fetterman fell directly on his face from ventricular fibrillation, a life-threatening heart rhythm disorder.
Two days after "Unfettered" came out, Fetterman fell directly on his face from ventricular fibrillation, a life-threatening heart rhythm disorder.
John Fetterman's Memoir Is As Low-Effort As His Senate Tenure | Defector
John Fetterman’s just-released memoir, Unfettered, argues that he’s turned a corner and has everything under control. Fetterman was a “stubborn asshole” (his words), he was clinically depressed, he wa...
defector.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Fetterman's relaxed approach to work was well-known to everyone in the Mon Valley; while mayor of Braddock Borough, he seldom, if ever, attended council meetings.
No one from the national media, though, asked anyone from Braddock about that; they were busy building him up as the Great White Hope.
No one from the national media, though, asked anyone from Braddock about that; they were busy building him up as the Great White Hope.