Flip-Flops and Felonies

Flip Flops & Felonies

Rom-Com · Moderate heat · 20 chapters + epilogue · 50K novel · Dual 1st person

Complete planning package, 103 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.

Wren Calloway came to Pelican Cove for a quiet summer sabbatical in her late grandmother’s beach cottage. She did not come to be HOA president. But that’s what Lou’s will says, in a clause Wren is almost certain isn’t legally enforceable and can’t figure out how to get out of.

The man next door runs the Salty Anchor beach shack. Every Friday night he plays Jimmy Buffett covers on his porch until 10:12pm. The noise ordinance says 10pm. He knows. He does it on principle.

So Wren files a violation notice. Three subsection references. A hand-drawn diagram of sound travel relative to property lines. It goes back paper-clipped to the pie plate he left on her porch, the one with the best key lime pie on the coast. She ate the pie before she knew it was his.

Declan Farrow answers with one sentence. The sentence is technically correct. It’s also infuriating.

Then the town’s Fourth of July fireworks coordinator drops out, and the festival committee looks around the room for the only two people with any organizational skill. Now Wren and Dec have four weeks, one color-coded binder with a contingency section, and a whole town that saw this coming before they did. That includes Lou, who planned all of it from beyond the grave and left the letters to prove it.

This is the kind of book you hand to a friend in June and hear about all summer: a grumpy hero who isn’t putting it on, a heroine who files paperwork instead of having feelings, and a Fourth of July finale where the fireworks pay off for real.

WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE

⭐️ Story Premise: high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ analysis across Romantic Comedy and Small Town & Rural, plus competitive analysis against Rock Bottom Girl, The Strawberry Patch Pancake House and The Unhoneymooners.

⭐️ Complete Codex: full profiles for Wren Calloway and Declan “Dec” Farrow, and a supporting cast of four: Lou (through her letters), Bev the hardware-store oracle, Theo texting from Chicago, and Mateo at the shack. Also the Pelican Cove world (the Salty Anchor, Lou’s cottage, the gazebo, the HOA and permit rules), a Memorial Day-to-July 4th timeline, and dual first-person voice guides with example passages for each lead. Plus a running-gag log for the violation notices, the pie plate and the binder, three comic set pieces, heat guidelines, seeds for Books 2 and 3, and a consistency checklist.

⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline: 20 chapters plus epilogue, scene by scene: setting, timeline, emotional beats, comedy beats, key dialogue, sensory detail and the ending hook for every chapter. It also includes a running-gag tracker that follows every violation notice through the book.

⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts: 21 self-contained prompts, one for every chapter and the epilogue. Each carries its POV, word target, heat level, scene, emotional beat, comedy note, voice guidance and the decision that ends the chapter.

⭐️ Amazon Launch Kit: the listing, written. Two KDP categories, seven keywords with the reasoning for each, full product description, back cover copy, 50-word short description, launch pricing and KU strategy, an Ideogram cover prompt and cover direction.

⭐️ Reader & Promo Kit: an Instagram post and three story slides, a BookTok caption, a Facebook post, and a newsletter announcement with three subject lines. Four reader magnet concepts with sign-up landing page copy, a reader targeting profile, comp-title lines, and a series tagline, series description and book order for The Pelican Cove Series.

⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief: a market snapshot across three categories, five data-backed selling points, competitive positioning, a keyword table, and launch positioning with a series strategy and a seasonal release window.

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

→ Enemies-to-lovers is the #1 trope readers ask for in Romantic Comedy, and it’s held that spot across three straight market reports. Add small town and grumpy/sunshine (the top-earning male archetype in the category) and you have the highest-demand trope stack there is.

→ Summer is the open lane. The Romantic Comedy Top 100 is crowded with Christmas and Valentine’s books. A July 4th beach-town rom-com has no direct competition at the top of the charts.

→ Rom-com top sellers move about 120 copies a day each, with a sales-to-competition ratio of 8.7. That’s a big, hot category that still has room.

→ No book in the Top 100 uses a documentation war as its comedy engine. “She filed four violation notices” is a hook no comp title can claim, and it works on a cover, in a blurb and on BookTok.

→ It’s built for read-through. It’s Book 1 of a series, with the town, the shack and Bev carrying straight into High Tide and Last Call. Rom-com series with a strong ensemble see 65–70% read-through from Book 1 to Book 2.

→ Release it in late spring and it rides the June–August peak, when searches for “beach read romance” and “Fourth of July romance” spike.

TROPES:

• Enemies to lovers
• Small town
• Grumpy / sunshine
• Forced cooperation
• Slow burn
• Beach town summer
• Found family ensemble
• Meddling grandmother (from beyond the grave)
• Neighbor feud
• The HOA violation-notice war
• Letters that change everything
• Fourth of July fireworks finale

HEAT LEVEL: Moderate. Kissing on the page and plenty of physical tension; anything past the kiss fades to black.

Perfect for fans of: Laurie Gilmore, Christina Lauren, Erin Hahn, Amy Daws

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