A courtroom sketch can catch the one face nobody came to see.
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Court artists in four American cities know how to draw faces strangers would prefer forgotten. Each has a Sunday envelope in which to send an unfinished study to an old teacher. One portrait puts a missing witness in the wrong room. Another catches a hand, a look or a half-erased profile that somebody would hurt a lover to erase. Each case asks two adults to trust a living person as well as a picture.
The woman in April’s drawing wore a red scarf. Damon has that same scarf folded in his coat. Somebody wants April to forget the woman’s face, and Damon wants her to look at his missing sister without turning her into a headline. The free companion novella is A Face in the Margin.
A teacher’s margin sketch gives the Sunday envelopes their purpose. Four former students use them to check what they saw, then choose whether and how to act. The final artist draws the teacher at a table surrounded by people still alive to sit for her.
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Ruth draws a bored stranger in the margin while everybody waits for a verdict. Vic recognises the man as the brother of a witness he helped years ago. The brother has been missing since Tuesday, and the drawing is still damp.
The woman in April’s drawing wore a red scarf. Damon has that same scarf folded in his coat. Somebody wants April to forget the woman’s face, and Damon wants her to look at his missing sister without turning her into a headline.
Mel remembers a face by drawing the hands. Ant remembers one hand tugging at his sleeve the night he gave evidence. When Mel sketches his recollection, he sees the gesture his own statement got wrong.
Tess finds an old sketch folded into the lining of Paul’s jacket. It shows the exit he swore he never used. Whatever made him disappear also ended the only romance Tess had ever kept secret.
Marta’s last courtroom drawing has one face rubbed out. She remembers the sitter’s voice much better than his eyes. Gerald remembers who moved chairs halfway through the hearing. Somebody has started attending his grandson’s games to discourage the two from comparing notes.
The teacher sends blank envelopes to her former students. Book 1 opens when an artist recognises a scarf in a gallery of strangers.
Includes the author pitch, editable Authorythm seeds and individual AI-generated front-cover concepts. The planned fiction totals 250,000 words.
Buy the 4-book concept pack and receive the companion lead magnet concept free. Each novel is planned at 55,000 words. The lead magnet, A Face in the Margin, is planned at 30,000 words.
Author pitch PDF with the series premise, characters, book blurbs and complete story arcs. One editable Authorythm seed document. 5 coordinated front-cover concepts.
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$235 per book
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Until 3 December: your concept comes with two On-Demand classes of your choice and six TropeSmith Maps.
Paid in full to reserve your slot · not refundable · free revision against your brief · Terms · Prices are in US dollars; Stripe may show your local currency at checkout · processed by PlotProse (The Coral Hart Group)
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