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Author · Storyteller
Hannah Lloyd
@hannahlloyd
Writer interested in romance, storytelling and all the strange practical decisions involved in turning drafts into books.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Hannah Lloyd writes mainly in romance and enjoys discussing both the creative and practical sides of making books, from early drafts to finished editions.
The best ideas rarely arrive in their final form.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Hannah Lloyd
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
Proofs in Blue
Maeve Keane is a freelance proofreader in Limerick who can spot a misplaced comma from across a room, but not the point where her own life has quietly gone off-line. When she is hired to clean up the pages of a local bakery owner's memoir, she keeps running into the owner's son, who has a talent for annoying her and making her rethink the tidy version of events she prefers.
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Draft progress
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