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@BaenBooks · Riverdale, NY · joined 10 Aug 2009

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27 702Followers

185Following

18 183Posts total

22.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

15 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.

Median views185this account2 043median for 10K–100K

Reach, %0.67%this account6.16%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %3.79%this account1.59%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	185	2 043	0.09×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	0.67%	6.16%	0.11×
Engagement rate	3.79%	1.59%	2.38×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

1.3K1 Sep

133

146

197

185

8452 Sep

16.5K3 Sep

1.2K

134

105

554 Sep

465

Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

4.81%1 Sep

3.01%

0.68%

3.33%

2.54%

1.62%

4.76%

3.79%2 Sep

4.45%3 Sep

2.57%

5.97%

5.71%

5.45%4 Sep

2.15%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.59%.

What the audience does

Likes72.5%740 in total

Reposts14.8%151 in total

Replies4.0%41 in total

Quotes2.9%30 in total

Bookmarks5.8%59 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

This week on the Baen Free Radio Hour, part two of Jeremy Comeaux’s interview of author A. Lee Martinez on Unbearable. Also, part 79 of One Jump Ahead by Mark L. Van Name is read. Podcast: https://t.co/6R64J6Cgqb YouTube: https://t.co/CRohhPO5pI To get the ebooks: https://t.c 465 views · 8 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 @BaenBooks Cool! 55 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 @BaenBooks He and Pournelle were my intro into the genre. Hammer's Slammers and Falkenberg's Legion specifically. This is good to see. 105 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @BaenBooks Outstanding. This man got me and so many others started on our mil sci-fi journeys. Reading Hammer's Slammers was the first of many experiences that pushed me toward writing military sci-fi after my own service. (And I'm thrilled to have just found signed first editio 134 views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 For #ThrowbackThursday, this week we’re mixing sleuthing and sorcery! The Dragon Done It edited by Eric Flint and Mike Resnick Pity the poor plainclothes cop or private eye who has to solve a case which may involve not only femme fatales (who may not be quite human) but also ht 1.2K views · 25 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 Baen Books Establishes New Writing Award Named in Honor of David A. Drake Riverdale, New York, July 2026—Baen Books is pleased to announce its newest short story award, the David A. Drake Memorial Award. As with the two current writing awards sponsored by Baen—the Jim Baen http 16.5K views · 561 likes · 125 reposts · 24 replies 03 Sep 2026 Want to know more about where science is headed? Check out this month’s free nonfiction, “The Bionic Martian,” which gives us a deep dive into the science and engineering choices behind Dr. Robert E. Hampson’s (@ThingyInBrainy) The Sands of Mars, released August 4th! Read the h 845 views · 27 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 @BaenBooks @Jringo1508 Will Troy Rising have an audiobook for it? 21 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 TO TURN THE TIDE by @Joatsimeon (mass market) – IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT Everyone could see it coming. But one man could do something about it. Oh, he couldn’t avert the nuclear holocaust, but a scientist in Austria, ruthlessly using billions of research dollars h 185 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 REBEL by @DavidWeberBooks & Richard Fox (mass market) – HE NEVER WANTED TO BE A REBEL The Five Hundred, the elite families who rule the Terran Federation, control its political power and its wealth, and they’ve grown steadily wealthier and more powerful, thanks to the war ht 197 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 01 Sep 2026 DIVIDED ALLEGIANCE by Elizabeth Moon (trade paperback) – Once a sheepfarmer's daughter, now a seasoned veteran, Paksenarrion has proven herself a fighter. Years with Duke Phelan's Company taught her weaponry, discipline, and how to react as part of a military unit. Now, though, 60 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 THE MILLS OF THE GODS by Tim Powers (trade paperback) – A HARROWING SUPERNATURAL ADVENTURE, FULL OF COLOR, DRAMA, AND ROMANCE, AS ONLY TIM POWERS CAN DELIVER PARIS, 1925 HARRY NOLAN is an expatriate American, making a meager living as an illustrator for a low-paying magazine, h 146 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 UNBEARABLE by A. Lee Martinez (hardcover) – THE FATE OF THE WORLD IS IN HIS HANDS. SORRY ABOUT THAT. A sword. A dragon. A lowlife. Ortiz is a man without grand ambition or talent. He survives by being mildly useful and eminently disposable, destined to end up in a shallow http 133 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 TROY RISING edited by @Jringo1508 & @GrayRinehart (hardcover) – NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING SERIES CONTINUES! First the Glatun came, and we learned we were not alone in the galaxy. Then the Horvath arrived, and we learned the galaxy was a dangerous place. But our alien enem 1.3K views · 46 likes · 8 reposts · 6 replies 01 Sep 2026 It’s September, which means we have some all new releases coming out this month! With Dragoncon this coming weekend, make sure you pick up your copies of our new books so you can get them signed by our attending authors (and even the artists!). New books from @Jringo1508 & h 1.4K views · 45 likes · 9 reposts · 4 replies 01 Sep 2026