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Lauren C. Teffeau
@teffeau.bsky.social
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Award-winning Writer | ACCELERATED GROWTH ENVIRONMENT w/ @ShirakiPress.com | A HUNGER WITH NO NAME w/ @Utampapress.bsky.social | IMPLANTED w/ @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social | Rep: @gabrielle-h.bsky.social | she/her | www.laurencteffeau.com
![Quote from Grimoire Ink team member Andres da Silviera Stein's SFINCS review of Lauren C. Teffeau's A Hunger with No Name:
"It’s a story that should leave you slightly sad, and slightly hopeful, that we are not yet too late to salvage something out of this mess. Out of this hunger with no Name. [It has a name, it’s called capitalism]."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:766mpqtlruarthocednkpyci/bafkreiez7jjklv6kfhejb6giaafbwbdnzqjvuweacmzwd3im7ugnqghhpe)
![So A Hunger With No Name really had me fooled for the first five seconds. I saw the title and braced myself for another “chosen one must tame the mystical whatever” situation… and then bam you hit me with high-desert star-reading, polluted waterways, and political clockwork emissaries who feel like someone hired steampunk HR interns to negotiate cultural assimilation. I was nodding so much my neck filed a complaint.
And Thurava? Ma’am. The way she’s out here having an existential crisis because the Glass City is basically that one neighbor who keeps building extensions without telling the HOA relatable. And painful. And honestly too close to reality.
I also read your author bio, and now I feel personally betrayed that a person who once checked wardrobes for magical portals grew up to write a book that actually feels like a portal. Meanwhile, I’m still waiting for my Narnia moment. If Aslan could get back to me, that’d be great.
Anyway, let me reassure you: I am not a marketer, promoter, guru, oracle, algorithm whisperer, or any of the other strange species that usually crowd your inbox.
If I were one of them I’d at least be wearing a cape or asking for a deposit.
I’m just Ava I read books too aggressively and hang out in a private community of 1000+ readers [blah blah]
And here’s the painful truth I’m sure you already know Books like yours smart, atmospheric, original can accidentally end up playing hide-and-seek with Amazon’s algorithm forever. One wrong metadata sneeze and boom your book disappears into the void like someone walked through the wrong mirror dimension.
That’s where I come in [blah blah]Worst case you get a handful of thoughtful Amazon/Goodreads reviews.
Best case your book stops being the desert’s best-kept secret and finally gets the visibility it deserves.
So what do you think
Want me to give Thurava and her not-quite herds a little signal boost
Or should I just go back to staring at the nearest glass building like it personally offended me](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:766mpqtlruarthocednkpyci/bafkreiffuwiemxs3nu3xjozv2zlvcrgo3r5ug55ih46c4uusrctr4itrrq)
