WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ analysis with triple-category positioning (Vampires, Paranormal, Seasonal) and competitive analysis
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with Del and Ambrose’s complete profiles (four voice-example passages each), supporting cast of 6, Pennyroyal Practice setting in full sensory detail including the whiteboard’s exact rules and archive, chapter-by-chapter timeline tracking sunset times and shift-overlap minutes, dual close-third-person voice system with distinct verbal patterns for Del (warm, observational, funnier in writing than in person) and Ambrose (precise, spare, passive voice when not examining himself), Moderate heat guidance with Dial the Heat™ flags on every relevant scene, Ambrose’s physiology and world rules stated as setting fact, and Pennyroyal series seeds for 3 future books
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 28 chapters + epilogue with emotional beats, word count targets, scene breakdowns, all 29 whiteboard exchanges drafted verbatim for chapter openings, and the five blank-board days placed and weighted
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — 29 copy-paste-ready prompts (one per chapter + epilogue) with complete context, whiteboard exchanges delivered verbatim, Dial the Heat™ flags embedded, and the no-compulsion rule restated in every relevant prompt
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with triple-category strategy and 7 KDP keywords, back cover copy, 50-word description, Instagram and Facebook posts, newsletter announcement with three subject lines, five reader magnet concepts, and October seasonal launch strategy
⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — keyword strategy table with rationale, triple-category positioning, seasonal window guidance, cover direction rationale, and Pennyroyal series readthrough strategy
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
NIGHT ROTATION
Delphine Ashby has run the day shift at Pennyroyal Small Animal Practice for three years — twelve-hour days, every dog in town known by name, a whiteboard by the back door that she reads before she does anything else. She built this practice into something real. She just didn’t build it alone.
Then October shortens the days enough that her shift and her night-shift partner’s finally start to overlap.
Before Del can figure out what to do with the person she’s been writing to for three years — there’s a hallway where they finally see each other and she says eleven words and he says two, his handwriting now attached to a face she keeps reconstructing wrong because four seconds wasn’t enough, a break room at six o’clock where she made two mugs of tea without thinking and he took one without being asked, chamomile on the warmer one morning because she mentioned it once in October, and forty-seven photographs of a whiteboard on her phone she has never once questioned.
She’s spent three years talking to someone without knowing him, and now that she knows him she can’t stop finding more. He’s spent a century building a life in which nobody has to know him, and a woman who writes back in blue marker is the most dangerous thing that’s happened to him in decades.
Paranormal romance for readers who fall for handwriting before they fall for the person. The kind of book where the most romantic thing is a legal document dated three weeks before he told her he was leaving.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Romance > Fantasy, Paranormal & Beyond > Vampires sits at 9.1 sales-to-comp (Hot Mainstream) with 210–275 estimated daily sales per top 20 title — vampire romance is outperforming paranormal romance broadly right now, and this package targets the subcategory directly
→ Triple-category stack: Vampires + Paranormal + Seasonal (Halloween & Paranormal, 11.4 sales-to-comp) — the October release window drops competition to ~3,200 titles with a 3–5x sales spike during peak; books positioned correctly in this window hold also-bought placements year-round
→ The cozy-register vampire romance gap is real and unoccupied — current Vampires bestsellers split between dark/steamy and YA-adjacent; warm, adult, contemporary vampire romance with a slow-burn correspondence premise has no direct competition at scale
→ Correspondence romance is one of the highest social-share trope signals in the current market — whiteboard exchanges are inherently screenshot-friendly; every exchange in this book is a marketing asset
→ The crossover buyer is large and reachable — contemporary small-town romance readers who avoid dark paranormal are the secondary target; the cover direction (illustrated, autumnal) and marketing language reach her without requiring her to self-identify as a paranormal reader
→ Pennyroyal series seeds position for read-through revenue — Wren’s Book 2 premise (the urban paranormal community) is planted naturally; readers who finish Night Rotation are primed for the next entry
TROPES:
• Written notes first
• Correspondence romance
• Slow burn
• Forced proximity
• Workplace romance between equals
• Immortal and mortal
• Touch starvation
• Secret identity revealed and accepted
• Small-town community
• Animals as connective tissue
• HEA
HEAT LEVEL: Moderate / Open Door
Perfect for fans of: Ashley Poston, Sarah Beth Durst, Alexis Hall, and Courtney Gould