Emerson thesis -- Popular fiction writing and publishing
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Found in 167 Collections and/or Records:
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...
Dates:
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 Fated Forest, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_stockdale-elftman_shannon.pdf
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"Gretchen Almsay is a very practical young woman. When her sister, Isabel, runs away to the Fated Forest it puts the entire family at risk of finincial ruin, and their family has suffered enough. Tasked with retrieving her sister Gretchen sets off with singleminded determination. The only problem is, The Fated Forest has other ideas about Gretchen's reasons for being there. Inappropriate unicorns, unhelpful guides, monsters, and traps all conspire to keep Gretchen from her sister, and maybe...
Dates:
2024
The Fire of Witches, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_birmingham_madelyn.pdf
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"The Fire of Witches is a new-adult, fantasy novel centered around Eliza Barton, a fire elemental amidst the Asnian nation's first witch hunt. Throughout the duration of the novel, Eliza struggles to keep herself and her mother, Jasmine, safe as she becomes a valuable asset to the king's regime, all while her magic-- and her beliefs about magic-- begin to waver. Eliza encounters several characters within the story who challenge her spiritually and mentally, contributing to a waning belief in...
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...
Dates:
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...
Dates:
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.
Dates:
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...
Dates:
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
The Oncoming Storm, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023spring_vantangoli_elizabeth.pdf
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"The Oncoming Storm is a young adult high fantasy novel about Eiowing – a girl who is perfectly content to live the life she has – whose safe world is shaken by rumors of a long buried evil which has returned. A quest is called to investigate and secretly find the one item that may vanquish the evil: a lost magickal sword. Representatives from the different provinces of Ithiel are assigned to the quest, including her brother Darion. When she secretly hears of a potential trap set for the...
Dates:
2023
The Prestige of Power, 2021
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Identifier: pf_2021spring_cormier_jason.pdf
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"There is no destiny, no fated hero prophesized to save the world of Sobrius from the tyrant, Geirdaan. But there are legends of those who sacrificed everything to unite the people and free the lands. The Prestige of Power is the first of four planned books in an epic fantasy series that takes readers across the world of Sobrius and explores the unique races, creatures, and cultures that call it home. It follows three key protagonists with a rotating point-of-view: A Magi male with...
Dates:
2021
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...
Dates:
2022
The Promise in Ironhart Manor, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_nieves_jazmine.pdf
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"When twenty-year-old Anne strikes a deal with a dragon named Bael, it doesn't end in the happily ever after like the fairy tales suggest. For the past 200 years, she has been trapped in Ironhart Manor, which sits at the center of the faeries' forest, inhabited by dangerous and deceitful creatures, including the dragon who imprisoned her. Anne must become a beast herself in order to finally escape her prison, and so another human is lured to Ironhart Manor. Anne strikes a deal with the...
Dates:
2024
The Raven Maiden, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024fall_cal-williamson_brittani.pdf
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"In a city where magic has been outlawed for centuries, Yira performs at The White Moth, a theater where those who still practice magic share their gifts under the disguise of illusion. Protecting themselves behind unused trap doors and pulleys, they live an enchanting life of dancing fire, spellbinding melodies, and secrets that would make even the moon blush. But there are two rules that must never be broken. Never perform magic outside of The White Moth and never fall in love. Yira...
Dates:
2024