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LITERARY DESTINATIONS EXPLORED

Author-Hosted Experiences:
Every tour is hosted by bestselling authors who bring books to life with private talks, behind-the-scenes insights, and intimate Q&A sessions — experiences you won’t find on a typical group trip.

Stress-Free Planning:
We handle everything — boutique stays, transport, reservations — so you can slip fully into the experience without planning a thing. Just arrive, exhale, and let the story meet you.

Small Groups, Big Connections:
Travel with 20–25 women readers who get your references, your humor, and your desire for real connection.

Handpicked Itineraries:
Your favorite authors choose the settings that shaped their novels — the hidden gems, the textures, the whispers. Lumina builds the itinerary around those details, creating a trip where fiction brushes up against real life in the best way.

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FELLOW BOOKWORMS GUIDED

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YEARS TURNING STORIES INTO JOURNEYS

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LITERARY DESTINATIONS, REIMAGINED

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“In the lands of ice and echo, stories linger in the wind.”

Beneath the northern lights and beside frozen fjords, a world from Ashley McLeo’s imagination is quietly coming to life. A Kingdom of Frost and Malice—an epic steeped in power, prophecy, and cold enchantment—has inspired an intimate literary journey to Norway, where myth meets mountain.

Though the tour has yet to unfold, the blueprint is laced with magic:

  • Snow-draped villages that echo with Norse legend
  • Silent boat rides through glass-still waters
  • Candlelit readings beneath vaulted wooden ceilings

This is more than a setting—it’s a summoning.

❄️ In Ashley’s Words
“To see the world I imagined begin to breathe in a real place—it’s like watching a dream frost over into reality.”
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A Kingdom of Frost and Malice

📍 Upcoming Tour: Norway

The Stories Taking Shape

Ashley McLeo

Christy Schillig writes contemporary romance with heart and humor — stories that feel like a warm glass of wine in your hand and just enough tension to keep you smiling long after the last page. Her novels Wish You Weren’t Here and Lessons in Falling are beloved for sharp banter, layered characters, and settings that almost feel like characters themselves. 


A middle school teacher by day and storyteller by nature, Christy lives in South Jersey with her husband (her best friend since sixth grade), their two kids, and their dogs, Puppay and Sheep. She studied Italian Literature and Language at Villanova University — a degree that now shows up in her love of Italy, travel, and beautiful settings. 

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"Wish You Weren't Here" & "
Lessons in Falling"

📍 Upcoming Tour:   Urbino, Italy

The Stories Taking Shape

Christy Schillig

J.A. Forde writes contemporary romances that feel like a deep breath — warm, heartfelt, and full of characters who love boldly and imperfectly. Her stories blend real emotion with atmospheric settings, from sun-drenched adventures to windswept places that linger long after the last page.

Best known for her Love Along the Way series — including On a Flight to Sydney, On the Slopes of Tahoe, and her beloved Scottish romance On the Ferry to Skye — Forde creates worlds that sweep you up and make you believe in second chances, serendipity, and the kind of love that stays with you.
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"Long Along The Way" series

📍 Upcoming Tour: Scotland

The Stories Taking Shape

J.A Forde

Jen O’Brien is the multi-talented founder of the beloved lifestyle brand City Farmhouse — a design blog turned creative hub that champions charm, thoughtful living, and spaces that feel like home. A longtime design expert, photographer, stylist, and storyteller, Jen brings the same heartfelt warmth to her fiction that she does to her beloved DIY and design content. 

In The Summer I Found You, Jen’s debut novel, readers fall into a sun-soaked contemporary romance set on Long Island’s North Fork — a place full of salt air, old houses waiting to be loved again, and love stories that bloom when you least expect them. 

Jen lives on the East End of Long Island with her husband, two boys, and their dog Denver, grounded in the kind of everyday moments — honest, tender, unpretentious — that make her stories feel like close friends you can sit with for hours.
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"The Summer I Found You"

📍 Upcoming Tour:   France

The Stories Taking Shape

Jen O'Brien

E.E. Holmes is an internationally bestselling author best known for immersive fantasy and paranormal series like The Gateway Trilogy and The Gateway Trackers — stories full of rich world-building, layered characters, and that satisfying blend of danger and discovery that keeps readers turning pages late into the night. 

She grew up near Boston, Massachusetts, devouring books with such commitment she perfected walking while reading without (usually) falling over — a skill that hints at the passion she brings to her craft. 

Holmes lives in central Massachusetts with her husband, two children, and a surprisingly loud dog. When she’s not writing, she’s probably binge-watching British television, rediscovering old favorites, or plotting her next world-bending story. 
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Gateway Trilogy & The Gateway Trackers

📍 Upcoming Tour: Scotland

The Stories Taking Shape

E.E Holmes

author spotlights

Travel that touches you back.

Guided by authors.
Grounded in story.
 Designed to move you.

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A lifelong reader turned travel curator for women who love books.

Kate ciullo

My love affair with books started young: library stacks, scribbled margins, late-night chapters that turned into early mornings. But the real magic? Realizing that the places we dream of in stories actually exist — and that we can go there, together.

I built Lumina Literary Tours for women who crave more than sightseeing. For those who want community, serendipity, and moments that feel ripped straight from a novel. For the ones who believe their passport deserves a little more poetry.

If that sounds like you, pour yourself a glass of wine, toss your favorite paperback in your bag, and come wander with us.

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We aim to give you more than you thought possible. After all, you deserve it.

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