Lauren Cerand Public Relations

Lauren Cerand Public Relations

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Sharing news about my endeavors and enthusiasms. Publicist since 2001. Independent. Logo design: Mark McCoy. Photo: Joanna Tillman. laurencerand.com

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Bennington College
@benningtoncollege.bsky.social

💡 Every great screenplay starts somewhere. What’s your spark? A character with something to prove? An impossible conversation? A workplace with a whisper of romance? Turn your ideas into original features and pilots in Bennington College’s low-residency MFA in Screenwriting. Learn more and apply!

Lauren Cerand Public Relations
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Working with Ted and advising the Screenwriting MFA program has been a highlight of my year.

Bennington College@benningtoncollege.bsky.social

🎬 Meet Ted Braun, Program Director of Bennington College's MFA in Screenwriting! An award-winning writer-director behind Darfur Now, Betting on Zero, and ¡Viva Maestro!, Ted helps emerging storytellers bring their visions to life. Apply now! 📅 Priority: Dec 15 | Final: Jan 8

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There is much truth to consider here— bring back tastemakers!

Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social

I spoke about corporate consolidation and how sales teams across imprints are told which books to prioritize. And also book coverage in general interest outlets -- where once these publications were tastemakers, now they want to talk about a book only once everyone's already talking about it.

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Lauren Cerand Public Relations
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While I didn’t plan it that way, the books I have done publicity campaigns for this year all turned out to be published by small presses. If you’re a book critic writing about books as the year wraps up, and you’d like to receive any of the 2026 titles featured here, DM me.

Lauren Cerand Public Relations
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I take umbrage with the writer’s use of the word “traditional” to describe publishers when it should be “corporate,” particularly vis-à-vis “small press,” but otherwise agree with many of the sentiments and much of the insight here, and this article is worth your time today.

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Lauren Cerand Public Relations
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While I didn’t plan it that way, the books I have done publicity campaigns for this year all turned out to be published by small presses. If you’re a book critic writing about books as the year wraps up, and you’d like to receive any of the 2026 titles featured here, DM me.

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Join us this Thursday @loyaltybooks.bsky.social for the official launch of Sylvia Jones’ new book Dope Calisthenics (which is also the final title for Relegation Books, in DC where it all began)! loyaltybookstores.com/dope

loyaltybookstores.comDope Calisthenics with Sylvia Jones and Professor Keith D. LeonardWelcome to our updated Loyalty Bookstores website! **RETURNING USERS MUST RESET THEIR PASSWORDS. CLICK THIS MESSAGE TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD**

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R&R
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“I drive a wrecker for a living. I see what happens out there. You have to kind of go ahead and enjoy the mess, is what you have to do. You have to be curious in life, curious about what the damage is going to be next time.” Read new fiction by Ken Chowder: www.relegationbooks.com/article/slop...

relegationbooks.comSloppy Deck is BestFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

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Bennington College
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🗣️ What makes dialogue work? For Bennington MFA faculty member Aaron Rahsaan Thomas, every line should reveal character. Find your voice with award-winning faculty and working screenwriters. Apply now! 📅 Priority Deadline: December 15 📅 Final Deadline: January 8 #screenwritingadvice #scriptchat

Lauren Cerand Public Relations
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Join us this Thursday @loyaltybooks.bsky.social for the official launch of Sylvia Jones’ new book Dope Calisthenics (which is also the final title for Relegation Books, in DC where it all began)! loyaltybookstores.com/dope

loyaltybookstores.comDope Calisthenics with Sylvia Jones and Professor Keith D. LeonardWelcome to our updated Loyalty Bookstores website! **RETURNING USERS MUST RESET THEIR PASSWORDS. CLICK THIS MESSAGE TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD**

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Bennington College
@benningtoncollege.bsky.social

Why Bennington’s MFA in Screenwriting? At Bennington, develop your voice, build original work, and learn from world-class faculty—all with the flexibility of low-residency study in Vermont and Los Angeles. Come for the craft. Stay for the community. Leave with your next chapter. #scriptwriting

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Bennington College
@benningtoncollege.bsky.social

We’re proud to announce that award-winning screenwriter, director, and producer Aaron Rahsaan Thomas is joining Bennington’s new low-residency MFA in Screenwriting faculty. A Peabody Award-winning writer on Friday Night Lights, Aaron is also the co-creator and executive producer of CBS’s S.W.A.T.

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R&R
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“So many ice coolers don’t last and that’s why I spent $350 on one, for my ancestors, the poor white trash filling up wagons with bones and arrows, disappointing me here in the future” Read new poems by Gene Morgan (@genemorgan.info) on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/four...

relegationbooks.comFour PoemsFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

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R&R
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“Walking around with a torch
Seems like a nice idea.
I could have been watching television.
Instead I was investigating an old, ruined monastery” Read new poems by Patty Nash on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/five...

relegationbooks.comFive PoemsFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.
Lauren Cerand Public Relations
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I love that there is an American connection here, one of those sweet conversations that must happen a million times a day, “I just came across this. Do you like it?” A thrifter’s dream (and credit to the East Coast father-son duo for doing the research). And what timing!

Damian Barr@damianbarr.bsky.social

This is a story about finding treasure among trash, about being open to magic and the joy of the dump-it site. Wild story ! So proud to play a part. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk'More will turn up' - Work by Scottish artists unearthed for homecoming exhibitionRobert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde were among the most celebrated figures in British art.

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One of my current consulting projects is now live, and I’m so pleased to be able to talk about it!

Bennington College@benningtoncollege.bsky.social

Applications for Bennington's MFA in Screenwriting are open now! 📅 Priority Deadline: December 15 📅 Final Deadline: January 8 www.bennington.edu/academics/gr... #BenningtonCollege #MFAS #Screenwriting #Screenplay

Lauren Cerand Public Relations
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One of my current consulting projects is now live, and I’m so pleased to be able to talk about it!

Bennington College@benningtoncollege.bsky.social

Applications for Bennington's MFA in Screenwriting are open now! 📅 Priority Deadline: December 15 📅 Final Deadline: January 8 www.bennington.edu/academics/gr... #BenningtonCollege #MFAS #Screenwriting #Screenplay

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ANY KIND OF KNOWN TOMORROW ( @bettybooks.bsky.social , out this month) debut novelist @ldeforest.bsky.social has a new guest essay @writersdigest.bsky.social on her passion. See her craft newsletter, The POV Playbook, on Substack, for more. www.writersdigest.com/get-out-of-t...

writersdigest.comGet Out of the Gloom and Into the Driver's Seat: 4 Instances Where POV Skills Can Level Up Your WritingAuthor Leah De Forest shares four instances where an attention to POV skills can level up your fiction writing.

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For @debutiful.bsky.social, @ldeforest.bsky.social recommends Australian authors to read after Helen Garner: debutiful.net/2026/09/22/s...

debutiful.netSeven Writers to Read After Helen Garner, recommended by Leah De Forest - DebutifulIt’s a funny thing, teaching writing in a country I didn’t grow up in: I’ve shucked off some identity markers (few in Boston can place the mid-sized-town-outside-of-Melbourne in my accent, for example...

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Howard A. Rodman
@rodman.bsky.social

October 21 at the American Library in Paris: Cinema at the edge of History with Writer-in-Residence Howard A. Rodman Paris friends, it would be a pleasure to see you there. Non-Paris friends: come on over.

americanlibraryinparis.orgCinema at the edge of History with Writer-in-Residence Howard A. RodmanRediscovering Howard A. Rodman’s novel, Destiny Express, of Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou, and the final days of Berlin before the Nazi rise to power.

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R&R
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“Thom was embracing & being embraced by another man when suddenly out of the steam Michel Foucault padded up to them on all fours, barking madly like a dog, and began licking Thom’s feet.” Read new poems by James Cummins on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/thre...

relegationbooks.comThree PoemsFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.
Lauren Cerand Public Relations
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ANY KIND OF KNOWN TOMORROW ( @bettybooks.bsky.social , out this month) debut novelist @ldeforest.bsky.social has a new guest essay @writersdigest.bsky.social on her passion. See her craft newsletter, The POV Playbook, on Substack, for more. www.writersdigest.com/get-out-of-t...

writersdigest.comGet Out of the Gloom and Into the Driver's Seat: 4 Instances Where POV Skills Can Level Up Your WritingAuthor Leah De Forest shares four instances where an attention to POV skills can level up your fiction writing.

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SOUVENIR, Joanna Margaret’s next novel, which follows a young heroine as she arrives in Paris to study abroad, eager to taste life and love, will be out in March @penzlerpublishers.bsky.social and PEOPLE has the exclusive cover reveal! people.com/joanna-marga...

people.comJoanna Margaret’s ‘Souvenir’ Is a Thrilling Parisian Gothic Novel— See the Cover! (Exclusive)PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover of Joanna Margaret’s upcoming novel ‘Souvenir,’ out next year. The gothic suspense follows an American art student in Paris who becomes embroiled in the lives o...

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R&R
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“Whenever a big piece went viral, it was hard not to wonder if the criticisms of it that resulted were not based a bit in jealousy. Why did you get something I want?” Read new fiction by Grace Byron on R&R: www.relegationbooks.com/article/chiv...

relegationbooks.comChivalryFounded in 2012 by Dallas Hudgens, Relegation Books works to connect readers and writers on a smaller, more intimate scale, understanding that success isn't always measured by sales numbers.

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Adam Morgan
@adamm0rgan.bsky.social

If you work for a book publisher that has introduced AI at any point in the publishing process, I'm working on a story and would like you speak with you, on-record or off-. Same goes if you're an author and you've witnessed your publisher using AI at any point in the publishing process.

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Leah De Forest
@ldeforest.bsky.social

Grateful to see my Boston book launch included in this list. Tuesday 9/15 at 7pm ET. There will be cake. Virginia Pye and I will discuss, among other things, whether books set in 2020 are historical fiction. If you're in town, I hope you'll join us. Event info in first comment.

Lauren Cerand Public Relations
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SOUVENIR, Joanna Margaret’s next novel, which follows a young heroine as she arrives in Paris to study abroad, eager to taste life and love, will be out in March @penzlerpublishers.bsky.social and PEOPLE has the exclusive cover reveal! people.com/joanna-marga...

people.comJoanna Margaret’s ‘Souvenir’ Is a Thrilling Parisian Gothic Novel— See the Cover! (Exclusive)PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover of Joanna Margaret’s upcoming novel ‘Souvenir,’ out next year. The gothic suspense follows an American art student in Paris who becomes embroiled in the lives o...