Emerson thesis -- Popular fiction writing and publishing
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Found in 146 Collections and/or Records:
The Burning Sands, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020fall_firestine_marisa.pdf
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"The Burning Sands' features two distinct races locked in a simmering, centuries-long conflict. Spara is a half-wind, the offspring of those two races: the human-like dathrals and the subha, a race of wind-wielding, genderless people. Raised among the subha but too dathral bodied to truly belong, Spara lives isolated and alienated. Shi dedicates xyr life to serving Kingship, the ruler of xyr land, in hopes of earning a place within subha society. Yet obedience to Kingship leads to harm for...
Dates:
2020
The Cartographer's Apprentice, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021spring_smith_alanna.pdf
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"On the eve of her engagement party, Veralyn LaStrauss, apprentice to master cartographer Richard Grayson, discovers her mentor has been kidnapped. His half-brother Matthias is the primary suspect. Named in the ransom note, Veralyn is tasked with finding a mysterious map called the Tagon Map to exchange for Master Grayson's return. During her search, she discovers a note from Master Grayson warning that dangerous magic—tied to the crystal containing the map—has infected her home city of Port...
Dates:
2021
The Contact, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_reynolds_erin.pdf
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"The Contact is a maritime horror novella that explores the inescapability of death and regret. Haunted by the shame of dodging the Vietnam War draft, Hicks flees to a life at sea. Onboard an illicit vessel in the Pacific Northwest region, he spots a mysterious light none of the other crewmen can see. As the light grows closer, the crimes conducted by the captain and his crew become more heinous. The novella weaves together Hicks' reflections of his past with the present-day transgressions...
Dates:
2022
The Curse of the Unknown Neighborhood, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021spring_buckler_joe.pdf
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"After the death of her father, a fistfight at school, and a newly fractured relationship with her mother, twelve-year old Alex Shelley has moved to the Unknown Neighborhood looking for a fresh start. Along with her sarcastic little brother, Gage, Alex soon meets Thurston, the neighborhood's self-proclaimed Boy Adventurer! who has a theory that their reclusive neighbor, Mr. Masuka, is actually a bloodthirsty werewolf responsible for a recent outbreak of missing pets. But what Alex and the...
Dates:
2021
The dark side of morning, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_lavoie_macey.pdf
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"Robin Sientas hopes to start college at Hammelynn University on her own terms and finally step out of her cousin Paloma’s shadow. But when Paloma goes missing and Robin receives gifts from the kidnapper she is thrust into a hunt to find the culprit before time runs out and a second victim is chosen. The case will lead her into the heart of the mysterious woods surrounding the school and a legend that dates back hundreds of years. For in a school that carries iron in their back pockets and a...
Dates:
2018
"The Descendant of the Zonax", 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_burton_alexis_jordi.pdf
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"Twenty-five-year-old twin sisters, Delta and Sanilia, descendants from the planet Ludar, find themselves separated after a teleportation accident. Their journey to find their way back to each other takes them through The Haven, an underground terraformed refuge for Ludarians on Earth, and Freidton, a small Ohio town with less than 1,500 residents. Along the way, Sanilia meets Rena, a soldier within The Haven, who is struggling with her sexuality; Delta meets Jordan, the son of the Sheriff...
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2024
The Divining, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_butler_sean.pdf
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"It's 1991 and Melinda's having a hell of a year. Her husband's been murdered, and she's about to find out she's descended from space-aliens. Looking for a place to get her feet under her, she and her son Ben move to Danville, Texas and the house she inherited from her uncle, but the charming country veneer of the place hides many secrets. She doesn't know that an alien entity was marooned there when its ship crashed in the 1800s, and her family and other residents are descendants of alien...
Dates:
2022
The DragonFyre Chronicles: Striking Flame, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_rivera_benjamin.pdf
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"Striking Flame is a debut fantasy novel, focusing on the conflict between two dragon brothers. The work is an examination of race relations through a dragon's perspective in an alternate version of our world. Barrios, the main protagonist, believes that peace between dragons and humans is possible, where his older brother Brontaren views them with distrust and growing hostility. Barrios seeks to bring Brontaren to his view, though problems old and new may thwart his success. In addition to...
Dates:
2022
The Element Story, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_landon_sydney.pdf
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"Rowana Griffin, a student just accepted into her dream-career training program, grew up in a small village on the edge of a magical barrier separating the Human Realm from the Fae. But when she is charged with breaking her Realm's ultimate law, performing magic, she is banished from her home and everything she knows. Now alone in the Fae Realm, she must learn how to navigate a world of high-class elemental magic trainers and even higher-class Fae royals. But there's a darkness brewing...
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2024
The Emrys School of Art, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_wong_jennifer.pdf
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"As a senior at Morgan University, Grace Huang often feels more comfortable with the paintings than with her classmates. When she sneaks into a party thrown by the distinguished Emrys School of Art, she finds a grisly tableau: a portrait that screams while its subject is bleeding to death. When Grace is invited to join the Emrys School of Art, she can’t refuse. She finds a place to belong with fellow students and artists. As Grace digs into the Emrys School, she uncovers the secrets of magic...
Dates:
2023
The Eternal Light & the Everlasting Dark, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_mcdaniel_jacob.pdf
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"This novel is an exerpt of a longer body of work that I intend to publish, covering "Part One" of the work. This novel is a work of fiction in the high fantasy genre, intending to act as a homage to old style of fantasy and the tropes found within, embracing the old cliches for a new audience. As such, the work showcases the traditional hero's journey with tropes such as a young farmboy turned hero, a magic sword, a dark overlord, and an epic journey filled with a myriad of locations. This...
Dates:
2024
The Gates of Horn, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_laughlin_sophia.pdf
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"The Gates of Horn is an Adult Fantasy novel complete at 128,000 words. Death has smothered the Lucan Empire. While Sisenna, daughter of the emperor, mourns the death of her youngest brother, Sisenna's power-hungry uncle sends assassins to kill her parents—and very nearly Sisenna herself. Ousted from her seat of power, Sisenna is tossed into the streets with nothing but her loyal bodyguard and her own wits to protect her. Thirsting for vengeance, she sneaks out of Luca and across the...
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2023
The Getaway, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_rosselli_natalie.pdf
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"The night of her father’s funeral, Josie Parker finds her father's old journal, gets drunk on the floor of what used to be his painting studio, and books a trip to France. On her first night, she meets the British expat who’s as gorgeous as he is mysterious. After thinking he gave her a disconnected number, they meet by chance in a café and begin their doomed flirtation. Josie climbs up to the monastery in the mountains and tries to call her mom, only to end up experiencing her first real...
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2023
The Gulch, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_sztobryn_alicia.pdf
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"This thesis contains a synopsis and the first 13 chapters of The Gulch, a YA dystopian novel set in a future society where displays of emotion are deemed dangerous and punishable, an attempt to stem the depression and suicide that run rampant. The protagonist, 18-year-old Simon, struggles to contain his emotions and garners attention from the Minister, the strict leader of his city. Simon watches those closest to him buckle under the pressures of the city, and his mental health...
Dates:
2022
The Invisible Guests, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_hamedi_leyla.pdf
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"It's believed that our souls can linger for seven days after death. When Ziya Roshan's older sister Yalda kills herself, Ziya sets off to find Yalda's soul and bring her back before her time is up. She finds herself in an in-between world where the fairy tale demons she knows from childhood stories keep watch over the souls, "the invisible guests." Just like all stories, there's a price. To return with her sister, she must complete three tasks. Ziya completes each with the help of a...
Dates:
2024
The jungle of fortune, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_urias_elizabeth.pdf
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"The story of the Del Llueve family. Living in a lush jungle set just outside of time, the peace and harmony of the village is disrupted by the arrival of the Coronel and his army of soldiers. When the Coronel decides to establish law and order in the jungle, secrets are revealed. As more and more of the Del Llueves fall victim to the Coronel, the family must band together to survive." --Abstract.
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2018
The Last Library in the Galaxy, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_wherren_annakatherine.pdf
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"On an asteroid in a belt near the center of the Milky Way sits the last library in the galaxy. It's a place where one is just as likely to find a first edition copy of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice as an ancient alien timeship. Rowena isn't entirely sure how she found the position, but, reeling from her twin sister's death, she told herself, she was looking for an adventure. Just when she thinks she's setting in, it turns out the library's aging AI CardCAT starts acting strange. What...
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2024
The Manuscript, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_burton_sarah.pdf
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"Thirteen witches must be ritually executed by the Basarab Priest-King to cure the Empire's plague. With the capture of the final witch, Rue, this deadly rite is hours away. But with the help of the twelve other imprisoned witches, Rue escapes, taking with her the first clue to a different, witchly, ritual--one that would cure the plague, strip the Basarabs of their power, and leave the witches alive. The Priest-King's nephews hunt Rue as she searches the Empire for further clues. Merrick,...
Dates:
2024
The Mayan Vagabond, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_piken_emily.pdf
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"Esmeralda Lopez's biggest concern is choosing a "responsible" career path, until she gets an email from her mother's kidnapper. To save her mother's life, Esme must travel to her birthplace—Tegucigalpa, Honduras— to an archeological dig site she didn't know her mother had, and find the third in a collection of mysterious runes, all in ten days. Once there, Esme is stuck in close quarters with her mother's mysterious partner, handsome Brit, Daniel Pentwood, and the Tia she hasn't seen in...
Dates:
2024
The Mistress, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021fall_bjerke_megan.pdf
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"The Mistress is the first installment of a young adult dark fantasy duology and follows twenty three-year-old Tayven as he finds himself abducted and imprisoned in Rivaena Castle, a place of legend and death. Chosen as an Offering for the Mistress, a woman cursed by the god of Death, Tayven's soul is destined to be ripped from him and ferried to the Underworld as punishment for a centuries long feud between the Mistress and the god. Desperate to escape with his life, Tayven fights, but...
Dates:
2021