Emerson thesis -- Popular fiction writing and publishing
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Found in 121 Collections and/or Records:
The Princess and the Pauper, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_mcgill_isabelle.pdf
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"Aisling, crown princess of the small European country Vyctorya, tries her best to live up to her parents' expectations but internally struggles with her sexuality. With her marriage to the Duke of Belare a week away, she has resigned herself to a loveless fate. Chava, a girl from America, is reeling from her father's death a year ago which resulted in a move back to her mother's home country of Vyctorya. With the anniversary approaching, Chava feels more lost than ever with no support from...
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2022
The Romance Assist, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_brown_hannah.pdf
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"The Romance Assist is a sapphic romantic fiction novel centered around Maria and Emily. The first one hundred pages of this novel can be found here within the Master's Project. Maria is an aspiring vet-med student who is stuck with Emily (the University of Virginia women's soccer team's star player) as her lab partner. After an incident in the lab leads to Emily offering to be Maria's sex coach, the two women pursue a sexual relationship. Over time, this relationship develops into something...
Dates:
2023
The Sea of Souls, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021spring_collins_monique.pdf
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"The Sea of Souls is a speculative fiction novel that spans generations of a Gullah-Geechee family. The novel takes place across two timelines, one in the past and the other in the future, and features beings from Gullah folktales and African mythology. Told from the point of view of a grandmother and granddaughter, the novel carries themes of love and female empowerment. At the novel's opening, the grandmother is a teenage girl who lives on an island near Charleston, SC. She is sent on a...
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2021
The Statement Piece, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_jaskiewicz_macy.pdf
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"In 1874 Paris, France, women are expected to focus on marriage, children and perhaps a feminine craft, but twenty-year-old Rosalie Autry desires none of these. As a result, she is banished from her family home due to her aspiration to be a renowned sculptor. She has the skill, talent, and creativity necessary to be successful, but because she is a woman, none of that matters. She is rejected from art schools, discriminated against at exhibitions, and is banned from having live models. With...
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2023
The Tale of Pamuya, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_rhodes_camia.pdf
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"Pamuya is a spirit who fell from the heavens to rescue a human boy from drowning. By saving his life, she committed the ultimate taboo, and was banished from the heavens to live with the boy as a mortal on earth. However, their love for each other did not last, and both died. Now they have been reincarnated. Annalee must figure out who she was in her past life. They must figure out how to mend the fences of the past and move on with their futures. But, unbeknownst to either of them, another...
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2022
The Wellingtons, 2018
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Identifier: pw_2018summer_gibbs_william.pdf
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"The Wellingtons chronicles a moment in the lives of the titular colonial family. The eldest son returns from the war, which, coupled with the murder of an infamous man in the town, serves as the catalyst for a tale of realization, redemption, and acceptance." --Abstract.
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2018
The wizard in the lighthouse, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_martin_bradley.pdf
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"Emily Miles has been adrift ever since she failed a mysterious test her parents gave her at the age of ten; since then she has been a stranger in her own home. Rebelling, she decides to skip her college applications. In an effort to unload their disappointing daughter, Emily’s family enrolls her at a mysterious, two-year institution in Maine. Emily is shipped across the country, only to find that her new school has a hidden curriculum: magic. With no inherent aptitude, Emily is barred from...
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2018
Their Savage Daughters, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022summer_hill_ashley.pdf
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"Abducted from her homeland and forced into slavery, the magic that lives within Rana Nari is buried and diminished. But a single spark can start an inferno. An act of defiance escalates until Rana is a fugitive marked for death. Resolute to reclaim what was taken from her, Rana has no intention of dying before she has lived. Born of a magically powerful bloodline, Oni Machawi has never been cowed by others. When an unrefusable proposition is made by a foreign prince, Oni accompanies him to...
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2022
Timbre Waves of Violent Hues, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021summer_cruz_cardalda_dorielys.pdf
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"Declan Colón Mayhew desperately needs divine intervention. It's not because he's a junior without a real plan for life after college. It has nothing to do with the fact that he's not over his secret ex, a boy whose gentle love Declan doesn't think he deserves. It might not even be because he's not sure what happened last summer, with his mother's broken body and the murder weapon in his hand. Rather, it's because of the death-drenched reoccurring nightmares that lead to him waking up...
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2021
Treasured, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_neal_lorri.pdf
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"Treasured is a contemporary romantic thriller in which two former lovers are reunited in a desperate bid to track down a rare artifact needed to save their lives. This second chance romantic story line features African American characters who initially met at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee nearly 20 years prior. After meeting up again over a dead body they must work together by unraveling the mystery surrounding an antique book believed to contain a map that leads to a fortune in...
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2022
Tricentennial, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_yeazel_christopher.pdf
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"Tricentennial is a sci-fi fantasy novel of approximately 50,000 words. Its protagonist, Marisol Rivera, is a cult survivor who leads a team of space-based commandos in a conflict she and many on Earth believe is being fought to ensure American dominance over the solar system's resources. Her greatest mentor, Michael Goff, is a publicly disgraced former military officer branded as a traitor by her government. As Marisol wrestles with distressing memories from her childhood, she is dispatched...
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2022
Ultramarinus, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_jackens_nolita.pdf
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"A young captain is mutinied for crimes she didn't commit on an island teeming with untamable magic. She soon realizes she's far from alone in this new land and seems to be the only traveler who retained her memory prior to arriving, something that ties her to eccentric Marcel who's been in the same predicament for many years. As our Captain Crostaff navigates the bonds of trust and companionship within a fluid reality she has to learn the value of them both if she ever wants to set sail...
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2023
Ungeheuer, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018fall_johnson_scott asburry.pdf
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"'Ungeheuer' is a complete, 80,000-word stand-alone novel in the horror genre. The story follows four main characters who find themselves threatened by monsters released from an underground cave by a group of amateur spelunkers. This novel uses real Texas landmarks and towns to blur the line between fact and fiction, and relies heavily on the heritage and folklore of the Texas settlers. It also explores the themes of young love and the hero's journey as the characters fight to survive by...
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2018
Unmasked, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_knowlton_forrest.pdf
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"Rose Evans is surviving on the street when an Amazon food delivery drone captures a shot of her face, unmasked, while she eats. Her location is confirmed by a surveillance drone and police are dispatched to apprehend her. Rose, a 16-year-old orphan, is sent to the group home where they send the girls no one else can handle. Taught to fight at an early age, she is recurited to the home's state champion mixed martial arts team. Rose soon finds herself in a foster home with unimagined wealth...
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2023
Voice of Lavinia, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020fall_lutzeier_deanna.pdf
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"In the summer of 1984, Cate Smith Cruz, a teenage musical prodigy, is on the cusp of her freshman year when a disturbing apparition, Devoid, reappears. The last time she saw this evil spirit was at the age of eight. Cate escapes by writing lyrics and playing the piano, for it transcends time and space. She is driven to harness music's mystical forces to counter the ghost that threatens her sanity and happiness. Yet, the very thing she loves is attracting trouble as her ambition crosses...
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2020
Voluntary Manslaughter, 2019
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Identifier: pf_2019fall_baldwin_adam neil.pdf
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"Voluntary Manslaughter is a mystery/thriller set in Nashville, TN in the not-sodistant future. The novel follows Charlie Watson, an ordinary young high school English teacher disillsioned with life. In his first week, at his new post, a student is found dead in the girls' locker room. Charlie quickly suspects a connection between the girl's death, his principal, John Hinkley, and his franternity. He takes his suspicions to his friends, Kat and Dave, who confirm Hinkley's involvement in the...
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2019
Warrior Without Hope: The Crimson Crown, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020spring_brockway_charlotte_jo.pdf
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"Freedom fighters across the realm of Grimmrverold fight for justice and compete for the Crimson Crown. The Zaethials of Dragon-Scale have begun to take power for themselves by pursuing the Crimson Crown. The only one who could have prevented it was the wood-elf, Taurin Greenkeep. But because Taurin did not destroy the Crown, the Zaethials' tyrannical young queen, Anarlion who is also a Boston teenager named Gaby Dracon, is in hot pursuit. The knights of the Argent Code and the king in...
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2020
When Zombies Appear (Vol. 1 in Meg's Magical Mishaps), 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_hicks_shawna.pdf
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"Dark Magic and Magical Creature Enforcement Task Force Detective Meg Madison is up to her elbows in zombies. The gross decaying beings seem to be popping up across the entire Dallas-Fort Worth Area, and Meg, her ghostly partner Vex, and their probationary knave officer Jack can't seem to figure out what or who is making them. Humans are in danger, magical creatures are in danger, and their jobs even seem to be in danger as the race is on to catch the dark magic-wielding culprit before the...
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2022
Whispers of Madness, 2019
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Identifier: pf_2019spring_pillar_erik.pdf
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"The following thesis is the first 100 pages of the novel, Whispers of Madness. The work is of the epic fantasy genre, and when completed will serves as book one out of a planned multi novel series. Whispers of Madness follows the journey of two young adults seeking meaning and answers from the world. Alexis is a woman on a mission for knowledge of events past. She seeks the secrets of a great disaster, one that affected her life deeply and personally. Toward that end, she finds what she...
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2019
Wings, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022spring_wendt_taylor.pdf
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"One sunny and otherwise perfect day, neurotic young mother Fiona notices fuzz on her newborn baby's back and becomes obsessed with the idea that he is growing wings. As she spirals into a postpartum-depression-fueled fixation while desperately trying to avoid being re-committed to the psychiatric hospital, her fiancé John abruptly relocates the little family to his mother Susan's rental bungalow. As Fiona grows closer to her future in-laws, she notices odd inconsistencies in their shared...
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2022