Emerson thesis -- Popular fiction writing and publishing
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 167 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...
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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...
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2023
A Criminal, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_bunyard_elise.pdf
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"Navigating a world of monarchs and peasants, Jonathan is a young, poor thief who holds his kingdom's royalty responsible for the nebulous death of his father, who was a longtime decorated soldier. When Jonathan is swept away to the capital city of this fantasy world to be trained as a soldier, he must learn how to protect someone he loathes: the Heir to the throne, the young and cunning Kyra Montalvo. The longer Jonathan serves the royal family, he is increasingly faced with a dark reality...
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2024
A Fire of Burning Ice, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_mcdermott_caleigh.pdf
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"My novel A Fire Of Burning Ice is Romeo & Juliet reimagined as a sapphic enemies-to- lovers Romantasy in a world of dragons, magic, and dangerous truths. Told through dual Point of View chapters between the two main characters Raena Fyeur and Khestri Atwater, this story follows the two women's journey of self-discovery and a fight for freedom. Within the Fantasy and Romance genres, there is an extreme lack of lesbian representation, and that is why I chose to write this story. With...
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2024
A Forest of Stars and Shadows, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_carvalho_samantha.pdf
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"The Forest of Stars and Shadows is an adult, dark, high fantasy novel that intertwines themes of personal trauma, magic, and rebellion. It follows two central characters, Seersha Blackthorne and Keyth Solas, whose destinies are shaped by their respective pasts, present, and their undeniable connection. Set in the kingdom of Gaway, ruled by tyrant King Drakeann, the story explores the psychological turmoil of the protagonists as they struggle against both internal and external forces—seeking...
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2024
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...
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2021
A Withering Peach Flower, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_gao_ying.pdf
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"In these 105 pages of the beginning of A Withering Peach Flower, Tao Hua had been inspired by her first romance on her thirteenth birthday and had a crush on a boy. Due to the unfair admission policies, she missed her chance of being accepted by a teacher's training school and lost her dream of becoming a teacher. Under her teacher and best friend's persuasion, her mother agreed to let her repeat Grade Nine but refused to give her money. She had to work hard to collect money and got the...
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2024
After the Aurora, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_langell_amanda.pdf
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"After the Aurora is a YA romance that follows five-star LSU commit Dylan Bennet-Cruz after his mysterious ATV accident. Left with nerve damage in his pitching arm and a secret that could ruin his already fragile future, Dylan must survive a summer of rehab, gossip, and Harper Britton, Connecticut's millionaire heiress. When Dylan's unearthed past clashes with a decade-old Britton scandal, the two teens must decide what means more—their futures, their families, or their hearts. The...
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2024
Afterworld, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_feingold_alexander.pdf
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"This is a novel about escapism, in conversation with other fantasy fiction and mythology. While exploring the ways in which imagination and fantasy can be valuable, the story also hints at darker and more dangerous detachments from reality. As this work is inspired by works such as The Chronicles of Narnia, The Little Prince and His Dark Materials I intended this story to be approachable to younger readers. At the same time this work will also be exploring some heavier topics and drawing...
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2024
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...
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2023
Ballad of the Dragon, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_wartalski_haley.pdf
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"An arranged marriage between the most powerful Vampire Clans that's more than meets the eye. A group of characters carving a different path from the old archaic ways of the Vampire world. The rumblings of a revolution. In this dark fantasy romance, Runa Dragomiraz and her inner circle have been slowly plotting over the years waiting for the perfect time to overthrow the Dragomiraz Clan and any other Vampire in league with them, including the Xenos Clan. Runa's always been willing to put...
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2024
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...
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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...
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2022
Between Devotion & the Dead, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_sholomicky_eileen.pdf
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""Between Devotion & the Dead" is the first 100 pages of an adult dark fantasy novel, the first in a planned trilogy. The novel follows formerly betrothed princes Declan and Valerian in their quest to stop the resurgence of a magical plague, which Valerian has accidentally triggered in his search for the legendary Gods' Well, before it kills their kingdoms' mages—including Declan's secret life partner, the healer Mylor. The novel explores themes of choices and those that are taken away...
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2024
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
Blackbird Rising, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_pittman_allicia.pdf
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"Blackbird Rising captures the experiances of a family through the lens of their youngest member, Alice. As Alice works to navigate the complications that had become her home life since her brother's return from Vietnam, she is also forced to face the reality of the social and political changes happening during the Civil Rights movement. This story has a focus on mental health, greif, and includes some violence. The aim of this thesis is to provide insight on not simply another area of the...
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2024
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...
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2022