Emerson thesis -- Popular fiction writing and publishing
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 147 Collections and/or Records:
Maulo, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_carter_amariah.pdf
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"This name-based story, Maulo, follows a Mahalean island boy on an impromptu adventure to find his way back home. From uncharted islands claiming his homeland doesn't exist to mystical creatures trying to capture the glowing gem embedded within his chest, he finds there is too much of reality he has been shielded from. Along the way he creates a small band of friends to help him on his journey. The new discoveries he encounters could either lead to closure of where his parents are or cause a...
Dates:
2023
May and June, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_davenport_sydney.pdf
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"May and June is a novel about twin sisters visiting their recently divorced father in the small town of Comfort, Virginia. Unfortunately, things in Comfort aren't what they appear. After accepting an invitation to a party with local students, the girls stumble upon a coven of witches sacrificing young women in the woods. When they are caught watching, May is given an ultimatum: provide a new sacrifice before the next full moon or her sister June will be next. May is forced into a moral...
Dates:
2022
Midnight Dreamer, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023summer_fernandes_meghan.pdf
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"Midnight Dreamer is a Young Adult Fantasy novel with series potential. It centers around a female protagonist named Aurelia, who is coming of age. Aurelia fights to right the wrongs in the Kingdom of Eleverie, through means of deception as a thief. The power-hungry King violently executes anyone with magical abilities, which puts Aurelia and her sister at risk. In order to protect her sister from the inside, Aurelia must become a Royal Guard initiate. Meanwhile, Will Andrews, a dangerously...
Dates:
2023
Multitudes, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_barclay_hannah.pdf
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"June, an artist living in New York City, vetures [sic] to Austin, Texas, with her musician boyfriend and her best friend as a part of her boyfriend's national tour. The more time the group spends in Texas, the more June's psyche and relationships begin to unravel. June has the uncanny feeling she's been to this city before and when people begin calling her by a different name, she knows there's something her friends are not relling [sic] her. With the help of a local austinite, Priya, June...
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2023
My Husband Isn't Cheating And Other Short Stories, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021summer_fuller_daniel.pdf
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"The short stories included in this collection seek to explore the darker side of humanity. What happens when one person's obsessive love isn't reciprocated? How dangerous is a serial killer that knows how to control his impulses? Who would you side with, your husband or your best friend, when the consequences turn out to be deadly? What lengths would you go to find the answers you need? Some stories take a peek into the lives of those closest to us. How well do you know the man renting the...
Dates:
2021
Night Shift, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021spring_shen_maxine.pdf
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"This thesis is the first act of an urban fantasy mystery novel set in modern day New York City, at a time when where vampires and humans live, play, and work side-by-side with each other. These pages set up how Morgana Lux, a vampire and journalist at a tabloid newspaper, is drawn into an NYPD Paranormal Crimes Division investigation involving the appearance of dismembered body parts and partners up with Detective Edward Sterling to help identify and stop a killer whose victims are humans...
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2021
Noliv, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020spring_garrison_hunter.pdf
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"Humans and aliens are forced to work together when the satellite planet Noliv is attacked by the Warrior clan that destroyed the home planets of ten alien clans. Lyon, a former Mayoral candidate, must learn to overcome his prejudices against aliens and work with Drew, a Narkaroffabot alien, as he rallies the clans to unite with the human Mayors to fight the Warriors. Lyon and Drew face many challenges as Drew's mother attempts to sabotage them, the Mayors attempt to quarantine the clans,...
Dates:
2020
Of Wings and Thrones, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_basnuevo_victoria.pdf
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"Of Wings and Thrones is a dual-POV New Adult Fae Fantasy novel about a young Ferr guard, Aryn, and the challenges she faces when she comes of age and gets her wings and magical discipline. Aryn's wings signal a new beginning for the kingdom of Olyssia, but when her best friend and charge, Princess Nexia, is found dead and Aryn is blamed for the crime, the main character has few options to clear her name. One of these options is Prince Lyon, who is still grieving his late father, King...
Dates:
2022
On the wings of a butterfly series : [book one] the dreamer of entity, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_pacheco_miranda.pdf
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"This is the first one hundred and eighty pages of the first book, The Dreamer of Eternity, in the epic fantasy trilogy, On the Wings of a Butterfly. The story follows seven characters through distinct multiple points of view as both their personal choices and events beyond their control impact their lives." --Abstract.
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2018
Out of Time, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_bordelove_emily.pdf
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"This young adult murder mystery follows Veda, a time traveler from another realm who was born to lessen the death and destruction caused by humans throughout their history. When her sister is murdered at her graduation ceremony and the leaders make little progress, Veda takes the situation in her own hands to find out who killed her sister and why. While dealing with grief as well as worsening obsessions and compulsions, she, her best friend and crush, Nazem, and her brother, Elijah, travel...
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2022
Painted Smiles, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_stenico_lindsay.pdf
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"Painted Smiles is an upper YA novel with potential for New Adult crossover that follows beauty guru Randy McKnightly who – after having a viral meltdown while hosting a livestream for a prestigious makeup line release – leaves LA and returns to her small childhood hometown in Massachusetts in order to stay out of the spotlight until things cool down. Surrounded by self-doubt and anxiety, Randy has to rediscover who she is without the beauty industry. She's also trying to rebuild the...
Dates:
2024
Pale Through Her Eyes, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_demps_aladdin.pdf
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"Alana is a mystery among myths: A forbidden blending of dark elf and orc (driven to "extinction" centuries ago). Alana is truly a child of the African diaspora; and the bastard scion of a noble Elven house, and the last descendent of a lost Orcish clan. Trust, these ain't Tolkien's orcs. She is also supposedly destined to end the world, or save it, depending on which myths you read. Since she's known to be a screw-up, it could really go either way. Pale Through Her Eyes is an urban fantasy...
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2023
Queen of Smoke and Mirrors, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_ferraro_isabella.pdf
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"Narcissa of the Rift has grown up wanting only one thing—to become the Advisor to her brother's royal crown. She has spent her entire life proving herself to be the most qualified for the role. The problem? Her brother isn't convinced. When a group of rebels that call themselves The Crux begin to threaten the very crown meant for her brother's head, Narcissa commits herself to the task of defeating them, certain it will prove her worthiness. But when the magical Mirror of Fates goes...
Dates:
2023
Ricochet: Into the Black, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021summer_collins_emma.pdf
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"Captain Marcel Moffett of the deep-space freighter 'Vespera' is in trouble. A mysterious woman known only as 'Anubis' has threatened the life of his husband. To keep his family safe, Moffett must trick his mixed-species crew into flying deep into dangerous X-Space territory to salvage a derelict station full of secrets. Back on Earth, Jaeden Halifax is excited to start her life with her boyfriend and finally be free Pittsburgh's scrap yards…until a sudden betrayal sends her into a spiral...
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2021
Salamangka, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018fall_paranada_daryl.pdf
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"What would make you give up the real world to live in paradise? That question is at the heart of my 83,000-word Young Adult novel Salamangka. When 15 year olds Marisol Garcia and Yussuf Yacoubi discover a magical portal to a colorful utopia, they must make a choice: live forever in paradise or at home. Life in Los Angeles is tough for these teenagers, who face discrimination and other issues that make living in the fantasy world Salamangka appealing. But is paradise really everything that...
Dates:
2018
Samara, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020fall_gomez_alexandra.pdf
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"This project is an excerpt of 'Samara,' a romantic Fantasy Adventure with the soul and sensibilities of the Victorian era. In a city ruled by strict class hierarchy and a militant Lord Protector, magic is outlawed as a dangerous an unpredictible curse. Here a young seamstress makes an unsavory deal to save her younger brother, discovering she has illicit magic of her own. After a literal tumble down a magic well with a lawyer-turned-criminal, they must find their way home in an unfamiliar...
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2020
Secrets in Blood, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_schumaker_katherine.pdf
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"Sabine, a medical illustrator, and her father, Docteur Claude Cloutier, an experimental and shamed surgeon in the country of Val Romais, are summoned to the Palace to treat Princess Vivienne for a mysterious illness that turns her blood against her. As Sabine and her father work in the Palace with some of the brightest medical minds on the continent, they discover that certain illnesses cannot be explained through modern medicine alone. Blood stains the halls of the royal home, and...
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2023
Sesame, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_stewart_lisa.pdf
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"The aim of this thesis was to create a work of popular fiction in the horror genre. This thesis contains a section of a novel set in the rural New York town of Red Creek. A ten-year old girl named Laura lives with her mother, who is possessed by menacing ghosts. The mother, colloquially known as Mama, threatens Laura and keeps her isolated within their house that borders a vast rail yard. Laura, desperate to escape, explores the rail yard, dreaming of finding a way out. She meets a...
Dates:
2022
Shadows of Memory, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021fall_johnson_emily.pdf
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"The story follows witty and sarcastic Zoe, a sixteen-year-old girl, as she and her fellow humans are being held hostage on the planet Sudeer by reptilian overlords called Trogs. She discovers who she is and what she is capable of while living in a harsh, oppressive atmosphere where she fights for the Trogs' amusement. Earth is just a shadow of a memory, but it is their best and only chance at living the life they always knew they could. A place where she could actually date Carter, the...
Dates:
2021
Sharing Moonlight, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_sterling_katsumi.pdf
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"Sharing Moonlight is the first installment of a multi-POV New Adult Fantasy series about Miro, a young survivor of the kaimeira massacre ninety years ago, and the challenges he faces after he is forced to seek the truth and his lost twin in human form. When the eadile clan's disappearance sparks mass panic, Miro's choices are limited. One of them is Aiden, an eadile enforcer who helped him before. Once found, Miro learns that Aiden is embroiled in a civil war that has drawn the ire of the...
Dates:
2023