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The Folded Footpaths

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The quickest way to the village orchard is through Margaret’s linen cupboard. Knock first.

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The Folded Footpaths, a cozy paranormal fantasy concept package. The graphic shows 3 novel covers and the free lead magnet, The Lane in the Linen Cupboard.

The concept

Librarian Elsie Crane unfolds a cloth map of her village and finds a real breeze blowing out of the crease. Two households can open a footpath by stitching pieces of their own linen to the map and walking towards one another. Whether a kitchen should become a thoroughfare, or anybody ought to cross a reed bed just because they can, are questions for the people who live at either end.

A shortcut makes light work of a long walk. It can also put half the village in a stranger’s kitchen at breakfast. Three novels and the free novella The Lane in the Linen Cupboard follow the people who decide when to open the way.

The worldA map sewn from household linen lies on the library table above the Lincolnshire fens. Two hosts sew in scraps, get permission for the ground between them and step out at the same agreed hour. The cloth unrolls beneath their feet. Where they meet, a walkable seam joins the places. It opens only at the agreed hour thereafter, one route at a time. Either host can unpick their end. The ground and water beneath it stay as they are.

Series tropesSmall Town • Quest • Hidden World

Intended readershipPastoral cozy fantasy for adults who like footpath gossip, eccentric neighbours and practical enchantments that change the shape of an ordinary day. Each novel opens up a different part of the fens.

Tone & contentClean and hopeful. Guests ask before entering. Hosts can close the door, and belonging survives an honest refusal.

The people behind the promise

Free novellaElsie Crane, a village librarian settling into a flat of her own, and her oldest friend Margaret Sayer, who keeps house at the vicarage.

Book 1Elsie, Margaret and Sid Fenn, a widowed breakfast cook with a marvellous kitchen and very little patience before nine.

Book 2Elsie, orchard keeper Muna Rafiq and school cook Nancy Pilcher, whose pupils eat the windfalls.

Book 3Elsie, river pilot Kath Joll and Kath’s granddaughter Meg, who sketches birds from the bank.

Series arc

A first seam leads to the library. The next crosses a working kitchen, the third brings the village to a neglected orchard, and the last makes a seasonal crossing over water. With every route Elsie learns more about what a good host owes the people, birds and trees already there.

The three books

The direction is set. The books are written after you order.

Free novella

The Lane in the Linen Cupboard

The village walking map won’t lie flat on Elsie’s new table. One wrinkle smells distinctly of Margaret’s lavender soap. At the other end Margaret is elbow-deep in the linen cupboard, staring through a strip of blue sky at her best friend.

Story outline

Story arc and endingElsie has promised to restart a library reading lunch. Margaret cannot leave the vicarage during the hour that the linen delivery might come, and Elsie resents always doing the visiting. Each sews in half of an old tea towel from the flat they shared as girls. Their first attempt fails because both walk from Margaret’s side. On the agreed morning they set off from opposite ends and meet under a pear tree neither knew was visible from the building. Margaret makes the opening toast at the library and gets back in time for the delivery. Elsie later takes the long way to her friend’s door with a housewarming invitation of her own.

Emotional payoffElsie can invite somebody into the life she has now. Margaret gets to set out as a guest for once.

Story focusRebuilding Life After Divorce • Childhood Friends

Length30,000 words planned

Book 1 of three

A Footpath Through the Kitchen

The breakfast walkers would save half a mile if the new seam ran through Sid Fenn’s kitchen. Sid has missed a full table ever since his wife died. He agrees to the experiment before anybody tells him how early the walkers get up.

Story outline

Story arc and endingThe first Saturday goes beautifully. Within weeks Sid is scrambling eggs for thirty and eating his own stone cold. When he unpicks his end over breakfast, a mapful of cheerful walkers discover they will have to go home by the lane. Elsie’s attempt to find a substitute host offends him more than any muddy boot. She comes back alone and asks what he enjoyed. He wants a table of six, an occasional lie-in and his wife’s good frying pan to himself. At the next walk the group meets at nine with six invitations, food they have made and a route that finishes at the kitchen. Sid sits in his own window and eats the eggs hot.

Emotional payoffElsie learns the difference between being welcome and having a right of way. Sid asks the six to come again.

Story focusGrief to Hope

Length55,000 words planned

Book 2 of three

The Orchard Beyond the Crease

An orchard is stitched into a crease so narrow that Elsie has to iron the map to see the plum trees. New keeper Muna promises a picking day for every pupil. Nancy has seen what a hundred feet can do to ground after a wet spring.

Story outline

Story arc and endingMuna hopes a festival will introduce her to every family at once. Nancy wants the plums to ripen and the young roots left in peace. They open a test seam from school kitchen to orchard and find even a magical path ends in actual mud. Muna closes it herself. While the ground dries, she and the children draw individual trees and ask neighbours how they cook the different fruit. At harvest, small groups come on successive mornings. The first visitors leave enough fruit for the last class. The school’s plum feast has a dish from every row, and Muna sets a pot of jam aside for Nancy. Elsie binds their drawings into a picking calendar.

Emotional payoffMuna earns a place here through a full growing season. Nancy gets to share the orchard with the people who will look after it next.

Story focusFish Out of Water • Opposites Life Goals

Length55,000 words planned

Book 3 of three

The Bridge the Ink Remembered

Kath remembers walking a bride across a little timber bridge. Meg knows the same stretch of water as the nesting place of three pairs of grebes. On the cloth map a line of blue ink has risen into an arch, begging somebody to set a foot on it.

Story outline

Story arc and endingKath wants to reopen the walk in time for her sister’s anniversary. Meg brings Elsie to the far bank at first light, where even quiet footsteps make the sitting birds lift their heads. Kath and her sister carry picnic chairs down the long road and spend the anniversary drawing what lives there. When the chicks have left, the village stitches the two banks together for one autumn Sunday. Kath leads the outward walkers and Meg leads the return. At dusk grandmother and granddaughter pull the temporary seam out with their own hands. The library keeps the walk on the map in blue thread loose at one end, ready for next autumn.

Emotional payoffKath passes on a particular pleasure without insisting that the river stay as she remembers it. Meg learns why the crossing was worth bringing back.

Story focusOpposing Morals to Moral Growth

Length55,000 words planned

From the free novella into Book 1

Elsie and Margaret find their first meeting place halfway between a linen cupboard and the library. The invitation Margaret sends from there brings the breakfast walkers to her kitchen in Book 1.

In the concept package

Includes the author pitch, editable Authorythm seeds and individual AI-generated front-cover concepts. The planned fiction totals 195,000 words.

Included free

Buy the 3-book concept pack and receive the companion lead magnet concept free. Each novel is planned at 55,000 words. The lead magnet, The Lane in the Linen Cupboard, is planned at 30,000 words.

Included in the pack

Author pitch PDF with the series premise, characters, book blurbs and complete story arcs. One editable Authorythm seed document. 4 coordinated front-cover concepts.