Without Leaving
The first book from Lost Press Publishing. A novel attentive to the long middle of a life, to women who have been quietly remarkable for years, and to what it means to disappear into your own life.
Independent publishing from Florida's Forgotten Coast
Stories with quiet force.
Lost Press Publishing is a small publishing company founded by Maggie B. Bailey. The press exists to publish work with literary weight, editorial care, and the patience to let a book become exactly what it should be.
Maggie B. Bailey
Author, publisher, and founder of Lost Press Publishing — writing from the quieter stretches of Florida's Forgotten Coast.
About the press
Small by design. Deliberate in every decision.
Lost Press Publishing was founded because Maggie B. Bailey had firm opinions about how a story should exist in the world and not much patience for the alternative. The press favors literary work, careful editing, strong design, and a catalogue built for staying power rather than speed.
Its focus is straightforward: books with a strong point of view, emotional intelligence, and a reason to endure. Each book is given the time and attention it needs to be fully itself.
Current title
The First Book from Lost Press
Lost Press Publishing · Book One
Without Leaving
Mara has spent years becoming a function — the person who refills the pill organizers, manages the insurance calls, and keeps the household running around her chronically ill husband's needs. She is good at it. She is disappearing into it. Then she finds Second Life, an online virtual world, and JJ: a man who sees what she carries and names what she has stopped letting herself feel. What unfolds between them spans years and every technology that brings them closer without ever bringing them face to face.
Without Leaving is a novel about invisible labor, about the remarkable interior life of a woman no one is watching, and about what it means — and what it costs — to finally be seen.
For media, review copies, bookstore inquiries, or reader questions, contact MaggieBBailey@lostpresspublishing.com.
Press notes
Lost Press Publishing launches with a single, intentional debut.
The press opens with Without Leaving, reflecting the exact editorial model it was founded to protect: attentive storytelling, design with restraint, and books that trust readers to notice quiet things.
- Founded by Maggie B. Bailey, Florida's Forgotten Coast
- Debut title: Without Leaving — literary fiction
- Review copies available upon request
- Media, booksellers, and readers welcome to write directly