No Vacancy by Christmas

Christmas Romance · Sweet / closed door · 26 chapters + epilogue · 85K novel · Dual 1st person

Complete planning package, 178 pages: the premise, a full codex, every chapter outlined, an AI prompt for every chapter, and the whole launch kit — listing, blurb, keywords, posts, newsletter, reader magnet — already written. One buyer only. When it’s claimed, it’s gone.

Kirsten Maki can rake a roof, feed two hundred people, and remember how you take your coffee. Her family has run Maki House Inn on the Lake Superior shore since 1931, and for seven years she's smiled at the front desk while a $186,000 balloon note runs out the clock on the inn and on the Christmas festival that carries her whole town through winter. She has sent one Detroit hotel CEO fourteen letters. When he finally comes in person, she irons a tablecloth.

It takes Gus Nassar nine minutes to tell her no. Then the county closes the only road out.

So she charges him full rack rate and itemizes every coffee. And before the plows get through, there's the midnight the 1931 boiler splits and the man in the beautiful overcoat picks up a pipe wrench like he was born holding one, the one warm room with a cot, a sofa, and a very large cat, a grandmother under five feet tall asking who died, a lopsided tin lantern with a backward N, and the audit at the kitchen table where he finds the number she's hidden from everyone she loves.

She's spent seven years telling an entire town she's fine, because the last Maki who smiled through it left her a locked drawer. He's spent twenty-five years refusing to stand still anywhere he could lose, because he once watched a form letter end his father's store. And the deeper they fall, the harder it gets to tell the man she loves from the money she needs.

Cozy small-town Christmas romance with snow to the windowsills, cardamom bread in a wood stove, and a whole town walking uphill with tin lanterns. The kind of book where a three-foot bill for coffee turns out to be the only love letter anyone has ever written him.

Tropes: Grumpy/sunshine • Snowed in with one warm room • Small-town festival rescue • Found family • Workaholic learns to come home

Heat Level: Sweet / closed door, built heat-flexible with five Dial the Heat™ flags

For fans of: Debbie Macomber, Jenny Colgan, Fiona Baker, Valerie Bowman

WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE

⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ analysis with triple-category positioning and competitive analysis against three comp titles

⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with Kirsten and Gus, supporting cast of 13, Maki House Inn, Agate Landing on Lake Superior, a day-by-day December timeline, dual first-person voice system with Kirsten's warm, fast asides and Gus's clipped, numbers-first deadpan, relationship progression, sweet closed-door intimacy guidance, and series seeds for 3 future books

⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 26 chapters + epilogue with action beats, emotional beats, key dialogue, chapter-specific sensory details, five Dial the Heat™ flags, ending hooks, and word-count targets

⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — one fully self-contained prompt for every chapter and the epilogue with complete character context, voice guidance, heat-level instructions, and story-so-far continuity embedded in each prompt

⭐️ Amazon Launch Kit — the listing, written: your complete launch kit: Amazon listing with categories and keywords, back cover copy, 50-word short description, and two Ideogram cover prompts with settings lines

⭐️ Reader & Promo Kit — Instagram and Facebook posts, newsletter announcement with three subject lines, reader magnet concepts, reader targeting, and series marketing

⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot table, five data-backed "why this will sell" bullets, competitive positioning, seven-keyword strategy table with rationale, and full launch positioning including category recommendations, pricing strategy, and cover direction

You write the book. The listing, the blurb, the keywords, the posts, the newsletter and the reader magnet are already written.

One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.

WHY THIS WILL SELL

→ Romance > Billionaires & Millionaires sits at 9.8 sales-to-comp (Hot Mainstream) with 515 estimated daily sales per top 20 title — a self-made hotel CEO opens this package's strongest category

→ Triple-category play with Romance > Holidays > Christmas (4.7, Hot Mainstream) and Romance > Small Town (5.3, Hot Mainstream) — seasonal search traffic plus year-round volume, with Small Town's sales rank up 45%

→ Small town is the top-earning theme in Christmas romance — in 22% of titles, earning an estimated $454K a month

→ Slow burn is badly undersupplied — on just 0.6% of Christmas titles, with the top sales-versus-competition score

→ Stranded and snowed-in stories run through this year's holiday releases — readers are already primed for one warm room and a closed road

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