Emerson thesis -- Popular fiction writing and publishing
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 167 Collections and/or Records:
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
Bloodlust, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024summer_silvester_raelyn.pdf
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"The inspiration behind Bloodlust came from my ever-growing love of the vampire genre. While I almost never get tired of seeing the same types of vampires over and over again, I am also always on the hunt for new interpretations of the monster and how they fit into our world. The more the zeitgeist changes, the more we can look back in time and see how things have stayed the same. Since they have eternal life and often live through centuries, vampires are perfect tools of reflection on the...
Dates:
2024
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
Cabin 12, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_elsea_katherine.pdf
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"Chris and his best friends, single-man Westley and settled-father Shawn, prepare of [sic] a weekend away from the daily humdrum of suburb life in celebration of Chris's upcoming nuptials. His future brother-in-law Asher makes a last-minute addition, and brings with him a disdain for the outdoors and for the three friends. Once they are alone in the woods, however, they begin to realize that someone means them harm, and they much [sic] decide who amongst them can be trusted. Screams in the...
Dates:
2024
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
Cheer Off, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024summer_natale_catherine.pdf
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"Remi Tolledo, a high school senior, and once beloved track star, decides to join the cheerleading team to help protect her freshmen sister, Flora, from being taken advantage of by the very same people who are to blame for her missing her track invitational when she was once a freshmen." -- Abstract
Dates:
2024
Clouds of Smoke and Whispers, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_lee_cassidy.pdf
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"The following is the first 112 pages of Of Smoke and Whispers, a queer, supernatural fantasy romance about two young women, one human, and one fae, who fight to understand their part in a prophecy and their growing attraction for each other. Piper, who doesn't see the value in loving when you're destined to lose, must fight to return home while battling the feelings blossoming where her heart used to be. The armor that Evanora, Crown Princess of Lendor built around herself is tested when...
Dates:
2024
Cloudy, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024summer_conover_bethany.pdf
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"Cloudy is the opening installment of a Young Adult Speculative Fiction series. When sisters April and May are kidnapped and taken to Galathea Hadal Base located deep in the Mariana trench, they must fight to reclaim their identities as they uncover a submerged world of scientific experimentation, forgotten memories, and extraordinary powers. Meanwhile, Arnav has been groomed for a life within its confines, but his growing doubts about his isolated existence propel him into a collision...
Dates:
2024
Counterclock, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_madrigal_lizzy.pdf
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"Taya Vigil has known one world for her entire seventeen years. She's the daughter of a highly esteemed leader, she's about to graduate as a top student at the prestigous Heritage College, and her future is set. But her seemingly predictable life as a Counterclock, or someone who's able to move time, takes a turn when she becomes a primary suspect in the death of a student during an annual intercollegiate competition. In her attempt to save that student, Taya unknowingly jumpstarts the...
Dates:
2024
Crash, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_eldredge_charles.pdf
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"Thomas and Samantha were childhood best friends turned high school sweethearts. When Samantha moved away halfway through high school, their relationship faded and the two lost touch. Now, over ten years since the two last see each other, they crash into each other in their hometown on Thanksgiving weekend. Thomas has just lost his mother to a heart attack a few months after a career change and big break up. Samantha avoids her overbearing and pretentious family at Thanksgiving while...
Dates:
2024
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
Depths, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_gordon_olivia.pdf
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"Depths is a science fiction story about learning to understand people different from oneself set in the middle of a war between two species battling for the right to colonize the same uninhabited planet. Its protagonist, Aven Torro, has a unique perspective into Dirt's—their enemy-turned-comrade—mind, but still struggles to overcome their assumptions and misconceptions. This conflict is further complicated by their personal desire for revenge after the death of their sister. Forced to work...
Dates:
2023
Dig Two Graves, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_zelvin_victoria.pdf
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"It's an old refrain: revenge jobs don't work. If you want revenge, you must first Dig Two Graves. Set in a fantasy city reminiscent of 1920s era Prohibition New York and told from alternating dual POVs, this is an adult fantasy sapphic heist novel. Washed up lightning mage Nell has a mad dream to rob a floating casino in the sky and she needs the best crew if she has a dream of getting away it, but there's just one problem: the best woman to plan the heist is her ex Sian, who currently...
Dates:
2023
Dimensions, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_goldthwaite_samantha.pdf
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"Alone after the deaths of his seven closest friends, Callan Thomas learns of the existence of the multiverse—and the fact that he and his friends are the subjects of a curse that follows them across the worlds. He is not the only one who was left alone, he finds; and so he sets out to bring together a new group of those who were left behind. In another world, Winter Williams and her friends stumble across a rift in the fabric of the universe, and encounter a being who seeks to destroy it...
Dates:
2023
Don't Say Yes, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_barquin_bailey.pdf
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"Phoenix is forced to put her dream of being a writer on pause to move back to her hometown and take care of her elderly father as he succumbs to his dementia diagnosis. While she excels at caring for her father, she struggles to care for herself as grapples with her depression. Life feels like a cycle of existential dread until she gets a package from her former best friend, whom she hasn't spoken to in four years, inviting her to be a bridesmaid at her wedding. Told in alternating...
Dates:
2024