WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ analysis with dual-category positioning (Holiday Romance Hot Niche + Small Town Hot Mainstream), three comp titles with differentiation statements, and a four-book Candlewick Seasons series framework
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with deep profiles for Tillie and Eli (wound, want vs. need, arc, four voice example passages each), supporting cast of six named characters including Ruthanne, Petra, and Desmond, full sensory detail for the Marchbank Barn, St. Bride’s, and the Candlewick square, the complete Hallow Vow lore (82-year history, lottery mechanics, the ledger, Mrs. Aldecott), chapter-by-chapter timeline for all 31 days of October plus the April epilogue, dual close-third POV voice guidelines, heat level and Dial the Heat™ flagging for every intimacy-adjacent scene, and the Consistency Checklist
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — all 31 chapters + epilogue with scene breakdowns, emotional beats, key dialogue, chapter-specific sensory details (unique per chapter, never recycled), ending hooks, and word-count targets; final-week chapters run two per day as the October deadline tightens; the wedding chapter runs 3,200 words with both the ceremony and reception fully on the page
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — one fully self-contained, copy-paste-ready prompt per chapter and epilogue; every prompt includes complete character descriptions, setting specifics, emotional beat, key dialogue to include verbatim, chapter-specific sensory details, and ending hook; Eli’s vows are embedded in both the writing chapter and the ceremony chapter for consistency
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with categories, 7 keywords with rationale, and full book description; back cover copy; 50-word short description; Instagram and Facebook posts; four Instagram story slides; three reader quote cards; newsletter announcement with three subject lines; ARC outreach template; four reader magnet concepts with landing page copy; reader targeting and platform strategy; Candlewick Seasons series marketing with book order and read-through CTA; Ideogram cover prompt (illustrated/painterly, autumn palette, barn-and-church composition)
⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot table across three categories, five data-backed “why this will sell” points, competitive positioning against three comp titles, seven-keyword strategy table with per-keyword rationale, and launch positioning covering categories, pricing, cover direction, and series release cadence
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
THE THIRTY-FIRST
Tillie Marchbank has kept the Hallow Vow for twenty years — her grandmother’s tradition, her barn, her ledger of eighty-two years of couples who married in Candlewick on Halloween night and carried the town’s luck into the year that followed. She has set up for every ceremony, tended every couple, and written every entry in the same careful hand Edie taught her. She did not expect to be in the ledger herself.
Then the couple booked for this year elopes in Tuscany in September.
Before Tillie can manage the situation and move on — there’s a lottery that draws her name and the name of the man across the square, a twenty-four-hour window she could use to decline and doesn’t, a flowers consultation where she and Eli Verrick agree on dahlias at exactly the same moment and neither of them knows what to do with that, vows written separately in the barn office on October 10th that are sealed until the ceremony and that both of them read once in silence before folding and putting away, someone fixing the loft stair at two in the morning before she has to walk down it in a dress, and thirty-one days of a wedding being assembled in public by two people privately running out of reasons to call it something other than what it is.
She has spent her whole life keeping other people’s love stories. Eli has spent his fixing things that need someone to pay attention to them. The tradition doesn’t care about either of their prior arrangements.
Small-town holiday romance where the wedding is on the page, in full, on the thirty-first — and the whole October gets you there. The kind of book you start in the dark on October 1st and finish exactly when it asks you to.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Halloween romance sits at 6.8 sales-to-comp (Hot Niche) with the thinnest indie supply of any seasonal category — readers regularly ask for a sweet, non-paranormal Halloween romance by name; this is the only one on the shelf that delivers a marriage-of-convenience arc in a fully realized small-town world
→ Dual-category positioning with Small Town Romance (4.2 sales-to-comp, Hot Mainstream) gives legitimate stacking across two high-volume shelves simultaneously, with a third unlock into Clean & Wholesome
→ The marriage-of-convenience + enemies-to-lovers + forced proximity trope stack is performing at six-figure levels in small-town romance; the Halloween setting adds seasonal differentiation no competing title currently occupies
→ The October 1–31 dated-chapter structure creates native BookTok countdown content — readers track along one chapter per day and arrive at the wedding on Halloween night, which is street-team gold and a sharing mechanic built into the book’s structure
→ Series architecture with strong seeds — Petra and Callum’s story is visible at the Hallow Vow reception, specific enough to generate anticipation for Book 2 without resolving anything
TROPES:
• Enemies to Lovers
• Marriage of Convenience
• Forced Proximity
• Small-Town Tradition
• Only One Wedding
• Grumpy/Sunshine (She’s the Grumpy One)
• Found Family
• Town as Matchmaker
• The Real Wedding on the Page
• October Countdown
• HEA
HEAT LEVEL: Sweet / Closed Door
Perfect for fans of: Sarah Morgenthaler, Abby Jimenez, Lucy Score (sweet readers), and Jenny Colgan