WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ analysis with Thanksgiving niche + dual-category positioning (Small Town, Clean & Wholesome), competitive analysis against three comp titles, and series architecture for The Holiday Table Series (4 books, 4 holidays)
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with Nora and Gabe’s complete profiles (wounds, arcs, voice guidelines with four distinct example passages each), supporting cast of 5 including Tamsin, June, Ellis, and Claudette, four settings with full sensory detail (the galley kitchen, the grocery run route, the back landing, the Thanksgiving table), chapter-by-chapter timeline across a six-day compressed week, heat-flexible intimacy guidance, future-protagonist flags with seeds for all three sequel protagonists, and Consistency Checklist
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 26 chapters + epilogue with scene breakdowns, emotional beats, key dialogue, chapter-specific sensory details, ending hooks, and word count targets throughout; the “thankful for” toast, the near-miss, and the revelation scene all built out in full
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — 27 copy-paste-ready prompts (one per chapter + epilogue) with complete self-contained context, full character voice guidance, heat-flexible flags on three chapters, and series seed instructions embedded at the correct chapter numbers
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with categories and keywords, back cover copy, 50-word short description, Instagram + Facebook copy, newsletter announcement with three subject lines, five reader magnet concepts with recommended approach (including a series sampler option), reader targeting, and series marketing with tagline, book order hooks, and read-through CTA
⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot table across three categories, six-point “why this will sell” case, competitive positioning with three comp titles and differentiation, seven-keyword strategy table with per-keyword rationale, and launch positioning (categories, pricing strategy, cover direction, rapid-release series cadence)
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
SEATS AT THE TABLE
Nora Castellan has hosted Friendsgiving for ten years with the three people who became her family. She plans every dish, every detail, every toast — and she is very good at making sure everything goes exactly right. If you need a seating chart fixed in real time, a vendor talked off a ledge, or a table set for six in a kitchen that was built for one, Nora is your person. She just doesn’t have a person herself.
Then Tamsin mentions, almost in passing, that her brother is home for the week.
Gabe Moretti is back after years abroad. He’s warm and easy and good with everyone Nora loves, and the last time she spent more than a weekend in the same room as him, something almost happened on a fire escape ten years ago that neither of them ever talked about. They agreed, without agreeing, to be fine about it.
Fine is going to take more work than usual this week.
Before Nora can make it through Friendsgiving intact — there’s a kitchen too small for two people who know each other’s tells where someone keeps handing her things before she asks, a grocery run that takes the long way home without either of them deciding to, a card game where she catches his eye across the table and thinks a single word she’s been avoiding for a decade, a near-miss in the back of a cab at night where he lets her say not like this without making her explain it, a secret she’s kept from her best friend for ten years that she finally puts down, and a “thankful for” toast where he says her name first and the table goes very quiet.
She’s spent ten years building the life she has — the table, the tradition, the people — and doing it from slightly outside the center of it, the indispensable one, the one who holds everything together and asks for nothing back. He’s spent ten years moving through other people’s stories and calling it work, using distance as a reason so he wouldn’t have to use the word afraid. A Thanksgiving week in an apartment that smells like butter and thyme and the specific warmth of people who chose each other is about to take both of them apart.
Warm, funny, and ensemble-driven, with a decade of unspoken history at its center. The kind of book you read in November under a blanket and then immediately press into someone’s hands.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Romance > Holidays > Thanksgiving sits at 6.8 sales-to-comp (Hot Niche) with ~45–80 estimated daily sales per top 20 title and only ~210 competing titles — this subcategory is dramatically underserved relative to Christmas (12,000+ titles), which means a strong entry reaches top-20 placement with significantly lower review counts and ad spend
→ Dual-category play with Romance > Contemporary > Small Town (4.1 sales-to-comp, Hot Mainstream) adds legitimate discoverability in a 4,200-title field generating 210–350 daily sales at the top — the Thanksgiving hook opens the niche door; the contemporary romance engine sustains it
→ Chosen family + second chance is the highest-satisfaction emotional combination in the Sweet/Clean segment — reader reviews across the top Thanksgiving titles consistently cite “found family feel” as the #1 signal, and this package delivers it through a genuinely built ensemble cast, not a token friend group
→ The compressed Thanksgiving-week timeline creates structural urgency that mirrors the DNA of the category’s top performers and differentiates this book from slow-build contemporary romance — the tension has a natural, ticking clock
→ Built-in series architecture across four holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s Eve, Valentine’s Day) gives the buyer a year-round publishing plan from day one — each book is a standalone HEA, and the read-through engine is seeded in Book 1’s epilogue
→ Chosen family and friend’s brother are among the most-shared trope combinations on BookTok and romance Instagram — the “she built the table and never sat at it” hook is emotionally specific and screenshot-friendly
TROPES:
• Chosen family
• Second chance
• Friend’s older brother
• Ensemble cast
• Secret past
• Holiday tradition
• Slow burn
• Dual POV
• Forced proximity (kitchen edition)
• The hero who waits
• Heroine learning to ask
HEAT LEVEL: Sweet / Closed Door — emotional intimacy and physical longing throughout; one “not like this” near-miss; one earned first kiss; nothing explicit; all three intimacy-adjacent scenes flagged heat-flexible so Dial the Heat™ can expand any of them without breaking the outline
Perfect for fans of: Elizabeth Davis, Jackie Lau, Jenny Holiday, and Christina Lauren