Lauren Shippen is een baanbrekende stem op het gebied van fictiepodcasts, gevierd om haar innovatieve benadering van audio storytelling. Haar werk wordt gekenmerkt door diep ontwikkelde personages en meeslepende verhalen die vaak de complexiteit van menselijke verbinding en zelfontdekking onderzoeken. Shippen maakt meesterlijk gebruik van het auditieve medium om meeslepende en unieke ervaringen te creëren, waarbij ze de grenzen van het dramagenre verlegt. Ze heeft zichzelf gevestigd als een belangrijk figuur in digitale verhalen, en boeit het publiek met haar onderscheidende stijl en thematische diepgang.
Nineteen-year-old Rose, a late bloomer in a family of Atypicals, discovers her ability to enter and affect people's dreams, but the longer she spends in dreams the harder it is to balance her work, her ability, and her girlfriend.
Lauren Shippen's The Infinite Noise is a stunning, original debut novel based on her wildly popular and award-winning podcast The Bright Sessions. Caleb Michaels is a sixteen-year-old champion running back. Other than that his life is pretty normal. But when Caleb starts experiencing mood swings that are out of the ordinary for even a teenager, his life moves beyond “typical.” Caleb is an Atypical, an individual with enhanced abilities. Which sounds pretty cool except Caleb's ability is extreme empathy—he feels the emotions of everyone around him. Being an empath in high school would be hard enough, but Caleb's life becomes even more complicated when he keeps getting pulled into the emotional orbit of one of his classmates, Adam. Adam's feelings are big and all-consuming, but they fit together with Caleb's feelings in a way that he can't quite understand. Caleb's therapist, Dr. Bright, encourages Caleb to explore this connection by befriending Adam. As he and Adam grow closer, Caleb learns more about his ability, himself, his therapist—who seems to know a lot more than she lets on—and just how dangerous being an Atypical can be. "What if the X-Men, instead of becoming superheroes, decided to spend some time in therapy?" ( Vox on The Bright Sessions )