Lauren is the owner of Sharp Pencil Marketing, a company that provides publicity services for non-fiction authors around the country and arts organizations in Chicago. She has gotten clients in publications including The New Yorker, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Mercury News, the Houston Chronicle, WGN TV, WGN radio, NBC New York, NBC Chicago, WABE (Atlanta), WNYC, Morning Joe, the Chicago Sun-Times, Business Insider and many, many more.