Emerson thesis -- Popular fiction writing and publishing
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 146 Collections and/or Records:
Forever and a Day, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021spring_axon_alexandra.pdf
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"Alex Lucent and her best friend Jade Collins never imagined they weren't human—even with Alex's history of punching out people twice her size. But on the last day of junior year, their worlds change—literally. After narrowly escaping a kidnapping, the girls are brought to L'Autre Monde, a world home to Magics: superior beings who can each perform a unique magical skill. They learn the world is at war, and they are destined to save it. Despite their disbelief, the best friends agree to train...
Dates:
2021
Forgive Me, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_hamada.pdf
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"Forgive Me follows Hannah, a twenty-five-year-old woman whose biggest issue in life used to be her unrequited love for Al. Her life comes to a halt one day when she witnesses the brutal rape of his cousin, Mandy. The worst part is that the rapist is none other than Al's father. Threatened into silence, Hannah's fear overwhelms her, and she is rendered unable to act upon what she knows. She drowns into a spiral of depression and barely keeps afloat until one day she is forced to face the...
Dates:
2022
Grip, Squeeze, Grieve, Repeat, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_sam_tyreetta.pdf
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"My hometown, Donaldsonville, was deemed the worst city in Louisiana and the second worst city to live in America by an article published by 21wallst and BR Proud. The article was shared on social media and broadcasted news stations which further marginalized and stereotyped residents of Donaldsonville. Amidst the backdrop of the article, my novel, "Grip, Squeeze, Grieve, Repeat," unfolds through the lens of 15-year-old Montez Comeaux. Montez grapples with the fallout from the article,...
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2023
Hauntings, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020fall_lane_stephanie.pdf
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"Maddie has always been haunted, literally. She can't remember a time when she didn't see the dead. After her sister, June, dies, Maddie returns home to mourn the loss with what little family she has left. Once she arrives, she starts to believe that June's death wasn't suicide or an accident. Her death almost mimics the way their mother died thirteen years previously. Back then, Maddie suspected her father, but now she's not sure who to suspect. The truth has always been an elusive thing...
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2020
Heart on the Ice, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_climer_tessa.pdf
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"Heart on the Ice is Book One in the Ballston Blackhearts tetralogy. This series follows a minor league hockey team based in Washington D.C. and each book will follow a different narrator on the team. There is a streamline focus on mental health throughout each plot—it is an intergyral piece in each story. Heart on the Ice follows Quinn Marley, who was recently traded to the Ballston Blackhearts after playing college hockey in Durham, North Carolina. Fresh out of college and new to the city,...
Dates:
2023
Hexerei, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_patterson_jamie.pdf
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"Felix, the main character, is a warlock coming to terms with both the deaths of his ex-husband, Oliver Dade, and his friend and romantic interest, Jude Morgan. They were killed by infamous Black Faerie Queen Audelia after Oliver insults her. Jude, ever the hero, jumped in front of the blow that would have killed Felix. It is at this moment that a piece of Jude's soul is lodged in Felix's. Felix begins dreaming Jude's memories as vividly as if he were there. Felix is torn between keeping the...
Dates:
2022
Honeymoon Alone, 2019
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Identifier: pf_2019spring_diebold_nicole.pdf
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"Honeymoon Alone is a women's fiction manuscript told in the first person and present tense, through the lens of Lucy Gray. Lucy is a twenty-six-year-old school teacher who lives a comfortable and routine life. After a public humiliation – and some insight from a psychic – Lucy throws caution to the wind and decides to see what life could be like if she shook things up a little. She takes off for London on her sister's throwaway honeymoon and is inspired to take chances for the first time....
Dates:
2019
I am an Assasin [sic] Named Lazarus, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_doolin_lily.pdf
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"'I am an Assassin Named Lazarus' is one killer's journey to survive. After waking up from a coma, Lazarus knows only two things: Her name, and that she's a notorious up-and-coming gun for hire. Even that information was given to her by "The Doc" and his cheery nurse, both of whom bear an ominous black cross on their clothes. As Lazarus puts back the pieces of her shattered memory, she's hunted by fellow assassin Raphael, who takes credit for the accident that left Lazarus with extensive...
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2023
I Think He Did It, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_purtell_brigid.pdf
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"I Think He Did It is a cozy mystery set in a small town in the Adirondack Mountains. Walker, a Sheriff's Deputy in a small town, is trying to help his former fiancée, Vera, track down what may have happened to their best friend three years earlier. Walker is determined to do whatever he can to keep Vera safe in a town that has only just emerged from a major corruption scandal, while Vera is determined to cause as much chaos as she can until her friend is found, safety be damned." --...
Dates:
2023
In Her Shadow, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020spring_porcaro_sara_jane.pdf
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"Presented in this thesis project is the first 101 pages of an original work of fiction, the first book of a tentative trilogy titled "In Her Shadow." The genre is high fantasy and decopunk, a style of fiction revolving around the aesthetics of the 1920s/30s era, and is currently 32,555 words in length, extending across a sizeable portion of the first book's overall story arc. This has been my focus project across my entire two years of study within Emerson's Popular Fiction and Publishing...
Dates:
2020
In Too Deep, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_messer_kimberly.pdf
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"In Too Deep is a YA novel about Autumn and Lucas, two teenagers that discover the value of friendship and trust while navigating the ins and outs of high school drama, divorce, and grief. Autumn must learn to love herself without validation from others. Lucas is a teenage sea monster who must keep his identity secret while maneuvering through the guilt he feels over the loss of his brother." -- Abstract
Dates:
2022
Jynxed: The Revenant, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_hudson_paige.pdf
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"Jynxed: The Revenant is the first novel of a trilogy which details a teenage girl's journey coming to terms with the Jynx, a rare type of magic responsible for the thousands killed the very day she was born. Sole living Jynx Jackie Krowley is released after a life incarcerated, now under the protection of Title Eighty-Three per her dead parents' wishes, arguing the autonomy of Jynxed individuals. The majority of New Hampshire's magical community opposes this decision, and a people's party...
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2023
Lethe, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_oneal_jerica.pdf
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"A plummet into a river. A struggle for life. A loss of consciousness. LETHE is the story of a woman who wakes up with no memory of who she is, where she is, or how she got there. She is found by Hypnos, the god of sleep, who journeys with her as she tries to rediscover her identity. However, with souls going missing, and mysterious glimpses of catastrophic deaths, there is trouble afoot in the Underworld, and it all seems connected to Lethe. Armed with a burgeoning power, she must figure...
Dates:
2023
Levels of Hell, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020spring_quiroz-diez_tatiana.pdf
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"Where everyone's a sinner, the real virtue is figuring out how not to fall under the temptations. Levels of Hell follows a girl named Blythe who finds herself in Hell after some unfortunate incidents in her life right before she dies. In this version of Hell, The Seven Deadly Sins are the big bosses, and they are each responsible for their level. Only time will tell if she'll be able to overcome all Seven Deadly Sins and see if she can pass her final judgment and get into Heaven or stay to...
Dates:
2020
Like Rats in a Swarm, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_raker_katie.pdf
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"Like Rats in a Swarm is a young adult fantasy novel. The first in a series and focuses on Yadira "Dead Eye" Alamilla, a one-eyed hunter living in an overgrown dystopian world. Magic has been lost and Yadira and her people are only protected from the overgrown animals and the dangerous faerie by the walls of their isolated city. They are fearful of anyone beyond their walls, including Druids, Faeries, and Free Travelers who navigate the overgrown world with ease. After a hunt goes wrong,...
Dates:
2022
Litany of the Bone Saint, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_fergione_ken.pdf
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"Sister Roksana, Priestess of Death, recruits Mihaela, innkeeper aspiring to practice magic, to confront a mysterious evil surrounding the fabled city, Death's End. An evil that the city's Lord Mayor, August Bane, and Librarian, Ulyana, accidentally free—a millennia old Queen that once ruled. As their investigations progress the three point of view characters, Roksana, Mihaela, and Ulyana, wrestle with their responsibilities, to the world and to the people they love, and find their faith...
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2023
Lord of Nightmares, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_reichert_william.pdf
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"Lord of Nightmares is a Young Adult Urban Fantasy novel of roughly 135,000 words. When the tyrannical witch ruling over America's magical population is deposed, her son narrowly escapes with his life. Emeric spends his exile dreaming of reuniting with his sisters and avenging the life he was promised. Years later, he is discovered hiding in the woods and brought to the estate of a powerful witch family, who wish to clear him of the sins of his mother and reintroduce him to society....
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2023
Lunule, 2019
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Identifier: pf_2019spring_watkins_katelynn.pdf
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"These first pages of Lunule set the tone for a fantasy and suspense novel that takes place in modern Boston. When private investigator Emma Finn tracks a former mark in pursuit of a mutual acquaintance, she unknowingly inserts herself in an underground world that mingles undetected with humanity. After a close encounter with one, she learns that not only are werewolves and other supernatural creatures real, but that she fits in better with them than she would have ever thought." --...
Dates:
2019
Mara, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_washburn_becca.pdf
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"A young boy growing up in a world broken by a cataclysm generations earlier meets a wanderer named Mara. She begins to tell him stories, some parables and some of her own life, that slowly reveal how she is intrinsically linked to that cataclysmic event, known as the Snap." --Abstract.
Dates:
2018
Margins, 2019
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Identifier: pf_2019spring_dirusso_chris.pdf
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"Here is the first 114 pages and the synopsis of Margins, a speculative fiction novel and the first of a planned series called River Walker. The novel follows the main character as he comes to terms with his postcognitive gift maturing and reunites other lost brethren across the globe, while evading and planning a way to defeat a mysterious man that needs his blood. This novel uses chronic migraine mixed with a fantastical ability to elicit an emotional response and blend reality with...
Dates:
2019