Emerson thesis -- Popular fiction writing and publishing
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 121 Collections and/or Records:
575 Main Street, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_traniello_annamaria.pdf
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"575 Main Street explores the life of Vincent Hayes as he attempts to start over with his family and escape past abuse. Vincent's journey of self discovery begins at a young age when he learns that he has the ability to see ghosts, an obstacle that overtakes his sanity. The constant paranoia causes Vincent to lash out on the people closest to him resulting in leaving everything behind. Vincent now has nothing and must suffer working for free as a janitor to have a roof over his head. While...
Dates:
2023
A Bitter Path, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_blackwelder_morgan.pdf
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"Desmond is looking for revenge. Ashe is looking for a missing prince. As their paths cross their plans go awry, and an unexpected opportunity presents itself. In the hopes of finding his next target along the way, Desmond convinces Ashe to let him accompany her to find who she's looking for. Though reluctant, Ashe understands her need for help—and the importance of her mission. Their way is mired with dangers and difficulties, especially after Desmond ends up injured. But at the end of...
Dates:
2023
A Hometown Love, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021fall_woodside_patricia.pdf
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"Selena Martin left campus a decade ago following the untimely death of her parents. One upperclassman caught her attention, but never spoke. Grayson Landry has been haunted by the memory of the curly-haired freshman who left campus before he got up the nerve to approach her. One day she was there, and the next, she vanished. He never knew why she left, but he also never forgot her. A chance meeting at his best friend's wedding brings Grayson and Selena back together. She fears he will want...
Dates:
2021
Amanirenas, 2019
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Identifier: pf_2019fall_christopher_nicole.pdf
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"From 40 B.C. to 10 B.C. Amanirenas ruled the vast, rich kingdom of Kush. During her thirty-year reign, Amanirenas became identified as the warrior queen, known across the lands for her might and skill on the battlefield. With great strength, precision, and grace, she led Kushite armies to numerous victories against the notorious Roman army. For all her power and skill in war, little is known about Amanirenas the woman. She is a queen without a history—only faint whisper serving as her...
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2019
Arm Me To The Teeth, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_vesey_alexandra.pdf
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"Fifteen-year-old Maria Reyes killed a man to save her family.. Haunted by nightmares, she attends a boarding school for troubled young mages. At school she meets Thomas, a ghost trapped halfway to godhood who claims to hate his worshippers and the blood they spill. He says he has a plan to end the war between his people and hers. She's skeptical, but the leaders on her own side seem more interested in winning the war, at whatever cost, than ending the bloodshed. She must decide who to trust...
Dates:
2023
Bayou Whispers, 2019
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Identifier: pf_2019spring_wood_richard.pdf
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"Bayou Whispers is a supernatural thriller that tells the story of Jeannine LaRue, the sole survivor of her family after the devastation brought on by Hurricane Katrina. In the aftermath of the storm, she is "rescued" and held hostage as a sex slave, finally found and saved months later by sheriff's deputy Curtis Jones. Twelve years after Katrina, Jeannine is a new attorney who returns to New Orleans to save her old friend Curtis Jones—now a local thief and trafficker of stolen goods—after...
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2019
Beliker, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_drake_kaasteen.pdf
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"On the islands of Beliker, Nakws'aatí people of the Tlagu tribe are killed, imprisoned, or re-educated. These are the witches. When S'áge, a twelve-year-old boy whose father had been hiding his son's Nakws'aatí side for six years, warns his village about a dangerous premonition he has had, his life is blown into chaos. Disowned by his father and shunned by his village, S'áge must learn to survive in a place where magic is persecuted. For the next seven years all S'áge wanted was to stay...
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2022
Below the Bloody Sea, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_wallen_jocelyn.pdf
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"This thesis is Act 1 of a queer fantasy romance novel with an estimated ending word count of 90-100 thousand words. It is a dual point of view work that follows Jarryn Hadeon, the captain of a cursed, mermaid-hunting vessel, and Trig Kaicero, a trans man on a journey to deliver his late mother's ashes to their ancestral homeland. The work aims to lovingly investigate queer love, the ways in which our lineage changes and challenges us, and the depth of experience of queer identities through...
Dates:
2023
Beneath the Light of Three Moons, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_lagro_kallyn.pdf
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"After centuries beneath the rule of the tyrannic Dawa dynasty, the magic of Lunata has been sequestered to near extinction. With a child of the full moon being born just once every few generations, it seems fated when the second Dawa prince is be born with the bloodline. As the rest of the empire is subjected to religious persecution if caught worshipping the ancient lunar gods; Vestu-In, Rehsin and Sihn-Rah, the outlook for Lunata seems bleak. But when it comes to light that all three...
Dates:
2022
Black Rabbit, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_correia_jennifer.pdf
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"A tattoo, a coded journal, a Jane Doe who may or may not be a former girlfriend—these are the only things that Mari Cassidy knows about her life from before she arrived in Mission, South Carolina two years ago. And, if graduating high school with no plan wasn't bad enough, Mari's past is finally catching up with her. Her visions are growing increasingly disorienting, the pain from skin contact is becoming unbearable, and her only remedy is to wear gloves despite the summer heat. Hoping to...
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2022
Blade of Hope: A Novel of the Virago, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_babin_sheryl.pdf
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"Blade of Hope is a YA Fantasy of approximately 110,000 words that follows Harlow Stonehand, the orphaned daughter of a shunned magician and newest member of the queen select's personal guard. When a plot to assassinate the future queen select is uncovered, Harlow rescues her only to realize the corruption is not outside the kingdom of Thornewood. It's been right under her nose the entire time. To save the future queen Desminda's life, Harlow must brave great danger to smuggle her out of her...
Dates:
2022
Blood Incorporated, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021summer_pruett_tyler.pdf
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"This thesis consists of the first act of the novel 'Blood Incorporated,' a science fiction thriller. This story features Cowboy, the protagonist, who discovers himself alone on the tundra, stripped of his memories. He survives the elements to find more danger in the city of Fabula, where emissaries of the villain BA, a master of evil, patrol the streets and try to kill Cowboy. He finds friends to assist on his quest to retrieve his lost memories and connect him with supernatural powers,...
Dates:
2021
Born of the Divine, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021fall_maudlin_kate.pdf
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"Naomi Pierce has moved place to place for years trying to find the source of her strange curse that only appears when death is near. Settling in Los Angeles, she begins to find a home when her best friend vanishes while investigating the dissappearance of four yachters. Following her gut, that her friend disappeared on the water she gets help from Captain Dylan Crest to find Annalise but the truth is, the police are looking at her as the prime suspect. As Naomi digs further she soon...
Dates:
2021
Ceylon, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020fall_brown_kaleigh.pdf
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"High-achieving Manhattan-native Mulan is supposed to go to Princeton. She's not supposed to think about her crazy Aunt Tabitha's suspected suicide. However, it's hard not to, when Tabitha is sending her messages from the other side. The signs seem to lead to Hawthorne College's mysterious summer program in the jungle. The program not only allegedly involves magic, but it's also highly competitive with students sent home every week. If Mulan wants to learn the truth about her aunt, she'll...
Dates:
2020
Charlie Parker and the Mystic Mountain, 2019
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Identifier: pf_2019spring_bruno_daniel.pdf
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"'Charlie Parker and the Mystic Mountain' is a middle-grade fantasy adventure novel set in a Narnia-like world. Charlie Parker is a 12-year-old boy living in a normal town at the foot of a mystical mountain. He wishes he was anyone else, living anywhere else. His only safe haven is the dojo, where he practices karate and meditation—a road his mom started him on before she died giving birth to his little sister. Everything changes for Charlie when he finds a magic key from the hidden world on...
Dates:
2019
Chasing Shadows in Barrowed Light, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_danish_elahi_safina.pdf
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"Chasing Shadows in Borrowed Light is a work of fiction that deals with friendships and mental health across countries. A group of four friends who went to school together separate following a painful event, are thrown far apart from each other. In an attempt to disengage, three leave the country, while one stays back. The story begins when one of them reaches out to another announcing she would not be around any longer. The novel deals with complex issues such as molestation, childhood...
Dates:
2023
Curse of the Raven, Call of the Bluebird, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021fall_poisson_kristy.pdf
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"'Curse of the Raven, Call of the Bluebird' is the first novel in a New Adult Fantasy duology set in a fictious world that blends magic and technology. The two main characters are brought together by Jai's mysterious powers of destruction and Klaus's desperation to explore the world of magic. Together they uncover a secret plot to summon the creation deity known as the Bluebird, thus ushering in a new era of magic and power for the select few at the top of society. Jai's powers are the key...
Dates:
2021
Darkpaw - Book One, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_yap_jeremy.pdf
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"Darkpaw is a planned fantasy series set in the anthropomorphic world of Vulpinia and is aimed at both adult and young adult readers. The first book herein is a coming-of-age tale that focuses on the issues of racial prejudice, privilege, and nativism. These are experienced through the eyes of Argento Roughpaw, a war orphan rescued and adopted by Lady Miria Fairmane, general of the Vulpinia Empire. Despite the racism that Argento endures because of his fur color and scent, he rises to become...
Dates:
2022
Daughter Time, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021fall_rossero_mackenzie.pdf
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"Daughter Time is the first installment of a Young Adult fantasy series following seventeen-year-old Vanna Mite as she finds her place in the Elemental Union, a country governed by four forces: Time, Death, Fate, and Creation. Plagued by secret visions of the future and marked by a mysterious brand on her cheek, Vanna's role in this world is larger than she realizes. Though Vanna doesn't yet know it, she owes her existence to Time, and she is but one pawn in his looming war against Death....
Dates:
2021
Dear Catherine, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_canner_benjamin.pdf
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"Dear Catherine is an epistolary fantasy-horror following Elizabeth Sokolov, one of the most brilliant architects and engineers in the Empire. Ostracized by her society for her abilities and her gender, she nevertheless receives an invitation from the Emperor himself to construct his dream project: a new city in his name that will represent that could make her name. But this grand project comes at a dangerous time. An infectious madness sweeps across the red plains of the nation, driving the...
Dates:
2018