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- Behind-the-scenes peeks at writing the Wren Island series, a reader-influenced serialized fiction experience.
- Design and flourish in a creative lifestyle that reflects your strengths and priorities.
- Journal a path to prayer: lose the guilt, embrace the possibilities.
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50-word bio
Through an innovative style she calls interactive serialized fiction, Laura Joy Lloyd invites readers to influence many of the stories she writes. Free of harsh language, bedroom scenes, and unnecessary violence, Laura’s contemporary stories feature hope-filled relationships set amid Pacific Northwest islands.
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About the Wren Island series
The Wren Island series is an interactive serialized fiction experience Laura Joy Lloyd provides to readers who subscribe to receive her emails. Subscribers receive regular installments of the series and are included in real-time, behind-the-scenes peeks at the developing story. Subscribers also hear about opportunities to influence the story and characters.
The Wren Island series currently consists of two books:
With an unexpected windfall, forty-five-year-old Allison Theodore purchases a Pacific Northwest island home, adopts two homeless dogs, and pursues her dream of songwriting. But when her eccentric aunts move in, Allison’s idyllic life becomes increasingly complicated. An unforgettable setting provides the backdrop for this story about second chances, spontaneous family, and steadfast love.
Wren Island with Wallace Around
Seventy-year-old Wallace Bernard is an expert at disentangling himself from sketchy business ventures, debatable legalities, and oppressive relationships. After moving to a remote island, Wallace enjoys unguarded friendship with a charming neighbor—until he realizes she’s the woman he’s been avoiding for fifty years. A monumental regret. A wisp of hope for forgiveness. One more second chance on an island known for mercy.
Beginning in the summer of 2025, books in the Wren Island series will be available from many of your favorite booksellers!
Find answers to FAQs about the Wren Island series here.
About Read with Laura Joy the podcast
On Read with Laura Joy the podcast, Laura Joy Lloyd reads from her interactive serialized fiction projects and shares the story behind the story.
100-word bio
Through an innovative style she calls interactive serialized fiction, Laura Joy Lloyd invites readers to influence many of the stories she writes. Free of harsh language, bedroom scenes, and unnecessary violence, Laura’s contemporary stories feature hope-filled relationships set amid Pacific Northwest islands.
Laura delights in encouraging people to express their creativity in imaginative and fulfilling ways. Through her podcast, journal entries, and book reviews, Laura asks questions about what might be learned, as well as what might be beautiful, uncomfortable, humorous, devastating, or promising.
Laura also enjoys swimming, reading, listening to music, and organizing whatever feels messy.
250-word bio
Laura Joy Lloyd grew up in a home where an evening spent reading was as magnificent as it was ordinary. She and her sister filled color-coded plastic bowls with snacks, chose a music soundtrack, and burrowed into the sofa to lose themselves in stories. Early on, Laura discovered personal connections with many of her favorite authors. Beverly Cleary wrote about kids who lived on a street near Laura’s house. Laura Ingalls Wilder shared her first name. Louisa May Alcott elevated a quiet family like Laura’s. Lucy Maud Montgomery told stories about a girl with an imagination like Laura’s.
Now, Laura invites readers into those special moments when real life inspires fiction. Through an innovative style she calls interactive serialized fiction, Laura offers readers opportunities to influence her stories and characters in real time as she writes.
Laura delights in encouraging people to express their creativity in imaginative and fulfilling ways. Her podcast reveals behind-the-scenes peeks and highlights the many ways readers influenced her stories. Her journal entries share the delights and disappointments inherent in creative work. Her book reviews ask questions about what might be learned, as well as what might be beautiful, uncomfortable, humorous, devastating, or promising.
Laura also enjoys swimming, reading, listening to music, and organizing whatever feels messy. She lives with her rock star of a husband and a rescued mutt on an island in the Pacific Northwest.
Find Laura online
Website: https://www.laurajoylloyd.com/
Send a message: https://www.laurajoylloyd.com/contact-laura/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LauraJoyLloyd
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurajoylloyd/
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[Author photo by Suzanne Rothmeyer]
