The Wick Witch of Quince Street

Cozy Fantasy · Sweet / closed door · 28 chapters + epilogue · 85K novel · Dual 1st person

Complete planning package, 113 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.

Gina Pacella's family has been making candles on Quince Street for three generations — the shop at number fourteen is the kind of place that smells like warm wax and cedar and something that isn't quite either, and she knows every regular's name before they say it. Her candles fix small things. Courage burns for eight hours. Say the Thing helps you tell your sister what you've been carrying. Sleep gives you a real one. The whole town of Larkin Falls treats this as an open secret and calls them "very good candles." Gina calls it Tuesday.

Then the new county fire marshal arrives with a clipboard, a formal compliance notice, and thirty days to fix her building or lose Lantern Night — the town's biggest festival, which runs entirely on her candles.

Sean Tierney isn't impressed by tradition. He's also not wrong: the wiring is original to 1948, the electrical panel is a period piece, and he has seven violations documented before he's out the door. He gives her the deadline. He takes his clipboard home. What he doesn't know is that every candle he confiscates from her shelves ends up working on him — Say the Thing at the town council meeting, and out comes the most honest thing he's said in three years. Courage burning on a Saturday afternoon, and he tells her something about his last county he's never told anyone. Sleep lit by accident at his kitchen table, and he wakes up genuinely rested for the first time in months. He keeps finding non-magical explanations. He keeps running out of them.

She's spent her whole life making candles for everyone else's hard moments and has never once managed to pour a working one for herself — the magic that helps her read what other people need has never told her what she wants. He's spent three years running on caution and competence after something went wrong in his last county, being thorough in a way that has cost him more than he admits, and Larkin Falls is the first place that's felt different. A 30-day compliance window and one unlabeled candle she refuses to sell are about to unravel both of them.

A slow-burn cozy fantasy rom-com with warm magic, a community worth rooting for, and an HEA that earns itself over thirty days and one lantern festival. The kind of book you start on a quiet Sunday and finish at 1am because you need to know what's written on that unlabeled candle.

WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE

⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and Market-Matched™ analysis with triple-category positioning (SF&F > Cozy Fantasy, Romance > Firefighters, Romance > Paranormal > Magic) and competitive analysis against two comp titles
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with main characters Gina Pacella and Sean Tierney, supporting cast of 5 (including Citation the dalmatian, Dolores, Frankie, Rosaria, and Captain Bo Flannery), Quince Street and the Pacella workroom settings, 30-day ticking-clock timeline anchored to Lantern Night, dual first-person voice system with distinct verbal patterns for Gina's warm-chaos register and Sean's dry field-note precision, full candle inventory with consent architecture rules, relationship progression table, and series seeds for 2 future Quince Street standalones
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 28 chapters + epilogue with action beats, emotional beats, key dialogue, chapter-specific sensory details, Dial the Heat™ flagging for intimate scenes, comedy beat notes, 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, dual-POV voice guidance, candle consent architecture embedded in each relevant scene, and the 30-day compliance timeline woven throughout
⭐️ Amazon Launch Kit — the listing, written: Amazon listing with categories and keywords, back cover copy, 50-word short description, and two Ideogram cover prompts built to the Fantastic &

⭐️ Reader & Promo Kit — Instagram and Facebook posts, newsletter announcement with three subject lines, two reader magnet concepts with landing page copy, reader targeting profile, comp title lines, series tagline and description, and Whimsical illustrated style

⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot table across three categories, five data-backed "why this will sell" bullets, competitive positioning against two comp titles, seven-keyword strategy table with rationale, and full launch positioning including category recommendations, pricing strategy, KU guidance, 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

→  SF&F > Fantasy > Cozy is a high-yield niche with strong demand against limited competition — ~$310,000/month in category royalties, 42% year-over-year growth, and only 2,576 competing titles; strong positioning without the brutal pressure of large Romance categories

→  This book hits cozy fantasy's three highest-earning royalty themes simultaneously — witch-themed (~$103K/month, 27% of books), romance-forward (~$164K/month, 49% of books), and humor-forward (~$63K/month on just 13% of books, meaning humor punches far above its share)

→  The fire marshal hero unlocks Romance > Firefighters as a legitimate second category — 43.3 daily sales per top-20 title, strong demand vs. competition; the hero's professional role is the conflict engine, so the crossover requires zero compromise to the cozy fantasy identity

→  Standalones are genuinely viable in this category — 35% of the cozy fantasy top 20 are standalones, accounting for 33% of royalties; this book is complete as a standalone with optional series potential, the optimal format for this lane

→  Cover direction is built to the rising illustrated style, not the declining one — Fantastic & Whimsical now accounts for 43% of cozy fantasy royalties (up 18 points); the Flat Vector Cozy style is down 9 points; both cover prompts in this package are built to the winning format

TROPES:

Grumpy/Sunshine  •  Witch and Skeptic  •  Forced Proximity  •  Slow Burn  •  She's Never Used Her Magic on Herself  •  Animal Sidekick (the dalmatian decides)  •  Town Meddlers / Betting Pool  •  Reluctant Admission  •  The Building Is the Meet-Cute  •  Confession via Confiscated Evidence  •  The Grand Gesture Is His Patience

HEAT LEVEL:

Sweet / Closed Door — tender, funny, and fully earned. Emotional intimacy and slow-building physical awareness throughout; no explicit scenes. The most intimate moments are about attention and honesty. The heat is in the staying-too-long and the coffee he drinks standing at the counter when he could leave.

Perfect for fans of: Sangu Mandanna, Stephanie Burgis, T.J. Klune, and Beth O'Leary

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