WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ analysis with three-category positioning, competitive analysis against Rivers of London, Piranesi, and the Dresden Files, and a 4-book series framework
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with Nell Vasko and Devereux Olm as the two main characters, five supporting characters including Greta Szabo, Tomás Reyes, and the Thing on Floor Seven-B, six fully developed settings including the anomalous floors’ phenomenology and the Division’s operational rules, 28-chapter timeline, spatial mechanics of The Margin and the manufactured ring, content intensity guidelines, and four voice example passages for Nell’s first-person POV
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — all 28 chapters + epilogue with scene breakdowns, emotional beats, key dialogue, sensory details, ending hooks, and word count targets for every chapter
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — 29 fully self-contained prompts (28 chapters + epilogue), each with POV, scene, emotional beat, decision, tone, and hook — copy-paste ready for any AI writing tool
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with categories and 7 keywords, back cover copy, 50-word short description, Instagram feed and story posts, Facebook post, newsletter announcement with three subject lines, reader magnet concepts, comp title positioning, reader targeting profile, series marketing, and Ideogram cover prompt
⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot table across three category paths, five data-backed “Why This Will Sell” bullets, competitive positioning against three comp titles, 7-keyword strategy table with targeting rationale, and launch positioning including pricing strategy, cover direction, and series readthrough strategy
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
THE SEVENTH FLOOR
Nell Vasko is a building inspector for the floors that don’t appear on any city plan. Strange geometry. Wrong light. The cold that arrives before she crosses the threshold. She has a procedure, a worn canvas kit bag, and six years of documentation proving she is very, very good at a job no one else knows exists.
Then a luxury development company starts manufacturing them on purpose.
Before she can file the first condemnation, there are twelve impossible floors appearing across the city in sequence — not the chaotic kind that grow from old buildings, but coherent, designed spaces built with obvious intent, all centered on the same decommissioned reservoir; a developer whose legal counsel knows the Division’s ordinance in detail and whose Director of Development never once expresses surprise about what’s inside the buildings; a structural engineer who identifies the anchor points before Nell can name them and a journalist upstairs who’s been pulling the wrong permits; a forty-five-day window when Nell’s condemnation authority is suspended and the ring keeps getting more stable; and the thing on the seventh floor, which has been rearranging the room around itself into a pattern she’s beginning to think she can read.
She’s spent six years doing the job correctly without asking what the job is for. He’s spent thirty years managing a program he stopped asking about. A city with floors that weren’t supposed to exist is about to make both of them reckon with what they’ve been choosing not to know.
Dark atmospheric urban fantasy where the horror is architectural, the protagonist solves problems with a clipboard, and the mythology runs four books deep. The kind of book where the scariest thing isn’t what’s at the far end of the floor — it’s the moment she realizes she has to go back.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ SF&F > Fantasy > Paranormal & Urban > Urban Fantasy sits at 2.3 sales-to-comp (Beaten Track Mainstream) with ~90 estimated daily sales per top 20 title and the #1 bestseller averaging 823 daily sales — high-volume category where differentiated premises break through
→ Paranormal Fantasy dual-stacking gives a second high-traffic shelf with 6 of the top 100 Fantasy bestseller list titles simultaneously using this category path
→ No-romance urban fantasy is underserved — UF skews heavily romance-forward; a high-quality no-romance entry widens the male readership window and positions for crossover into supernatural thriller and dark fantasy audiences
→ Liminal space horror has a large, active audience with no genre home — the Backrooms, SCP-style narratives, and liminal architecture horror have built a substantial reader base that no top-performing UF title currently captures
→ Procedural series architecture drives readthrough — case-per-book structure with building mythology mirrors the Dresden Files model, one of Urban Fantasy’s most commercially durable formats
TROPES:
• Hidden bureaucracy of magic
• Liminal space horror
• Blue-collar competent protagonist
• Institutional setting
• Corporate antagonist
• City-as-character
• Unreliable architecture
• Procedural supernatural investigation
• Protagonist-as-dark-mirror
• Found intelligence (the civilian witness)
• Mystery with a mythology
• The thing that is not a monster
No romantic content. Dark fantasy / urban fantasy / supernatural suspense.
Perfect for fans of: Ben Aaronovitch, Susanna Clarke, and T. Kingfisher