WHAT’S INSIDE THIS PACKAGE
⭐️ Story Premise — high-concept pitch, elevator pitch, and K-lytics market validation with dual-category positioning (Romantic Comedy + Small Town) and competitive analysis against three comp titles
⭐️ Complete Codex — full story bible with main characters Bridget and Owen (full internal landscapes, voice examples, and example dialogue for both POVs), supporting cast of four including Dex, Ruthie, Jonah, and Cabo the boat cat, three primary settings (The Persistence, The Slow Road, and Beacon Cove Marina as community), six-week chapter-by-chapter timeline, full comedy mechanics with running gag log and three set piece breakdowns, dual POV voice guidelines, and series seeds for two future Beacon Cove books
⭐️ Chapter-by-Chapter Outline — 20 chapters + epilogue with scene-by-scene breakdowns, emotional beats, comedy beats, key dialogue, and chapter-ending hooks for every chapter
⭐️ AI-Ready Chapter Prompts — fully self-contained copy-paste prompts for all 20 chapters and epilogue with scene summary, emotional beat, comedy note, voice reminder, decision, tone, and hook
⭐️ Marketing Copy — Amazon listing with two categories and seven keywords, back cover copy, 50-word description, Instagram post and story slides, TikTok/BookTok caption, Facebook post, newsletter announcement with three subject line options, reader magnet concepts and landing page copy, series marketing, and Ideogram cover prompt
⭐️ Market-Matched™ Brief — market snapshot table, five data-backed “Why This Will Sell” bullets, competitive positioning, seven-keyword strategy with rationale, and full launch positioning including pricing, cover direction, seasonal window, and series release cadence
One buyer. One story. Exclusively yours.
THE FLOAT PLAN
Bridget Callahan has lived aboard her trawler at Beacon Cove Marina for four years and has built exactly the life she wanted — a waiting list of clients who trust her with their engines, a port engine rebuild that’s coming along nicely, and eighteen inches of water between her boat and the next slip that have never once been complicated.
Then a travel writer from New York rents slip 7.
Before Bridget can get back to her engine, there’s a marina-wide electrical fault that somehow ends with Owen as her assigned assistant, a 5am dock routine that neither of them acknowledges as a routine, a community cookout where he eats two pieces of her banana bread before anyone tells him whose it is, the moment he hands her the correct wrench before she reaches for it and she holds it for a long time without saying anything, and a boat cat who made his allegiances very clear on Day 1 and has not reconsidered.
The slip between their boats is eighteen inches wide. The dock community knows everything before she does. He calls every line “the rope.” She corrects him every time. By week three he has the full terminology down and she doesn’t know what to do with that.
She’s spent four years making her life small and good and hers because wanting something large enough to lose would mean being wrong about it. He’s spent twelve years writing about places from a careful distance — brilliant at capturing the surface of somewhere, practiced at leaving before he has to consider what staying would cost him. A working marina where everyone lives on their boats and the dock knows your situation before you do is about to make distance very difficult for both of them.
Slow-burn romantic comedy set at a small Outer Banks marina, where competence is its own love language and the cat always knows first. The kind of book where you finish it and immediately want to recommend a boat.
WHY THIS WILL SELL
→ Romance > Romantic Comedy sits at 8.7 sales-to-comp (Hot Mainstream) with ~120 daily sales per top-20 title — grumpy/sunshine is the #1 archetype by monthly royalties ($330K); this package inverts the gender dynamic for immediate differentiation
→ Dual-category with Romance > Small Town & Rural (6.4 sales-to-comp, Hot Niche) — two categories, one setting, no audience mismatch
→ Working marina is unrepresented in the current Top 100 — strong visual hook for BookTok; distinctive from every other small town setting in the market
→ Inverted grumpy/sunshine (female expert, male learner) is fresh and shareable — the competence gap runs in a direction readers haven’t seen in this category
→ May/June release targets peak summer beach read demand — coastal + summer searches spike June–August with no current Top 100 competitor in the marina niche
→ 3-book Beacon Cove Marina series with seeded ensemble — Ruthie and Dex appear throughout Book 1; readthrough potential is built in
TROPES:
• Grumpy/Sunshine (Inverted)
• Forced Proximity
• Slow Burn
• Neighbors-to-Lovers
• Small Town
• The Expert and the Newcomer
HEAT LEVEL: Moderate / Closed Door
Perfect for fans of: Laurie Gilmore, Amy Daws, Catherine Walsh, and Erin Hahn