Free novella
The Boots in the Loft
The boots in Noreen’s loft are two sizes too small. They belonged to Val the season they stopped speaking. Noreen had believed for years that Val took the last bus without even saying goodbye.
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The Women off the Team Sheet
The season ends on Sunday. On Monday morning their bodies still wake up for training.
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3-book package
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Until 3 December: your concept comes with two On-Demand classes of your choice and six TropeSmith Maps.
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The concept
Three former teammates in a Midlands town leave competitive football at different ages and for different reasons. A quiet retirement, a shirt without a number and a whistle returned by an adult daughter force them to work out what survives when a team stops naming them. Friendship, expertise and anger matter as much as a glorious last game.
On Pat’s first free Saturday the kettle has boiled four times before breakfast. Her daughter leaves for a game without asking her to come. For twenty years somebody has always told Pat where to stand. The free companion novella is The Boots in the Loft.
The worldA women’s grassroots club, its former players and their separate jobs. The club may remain important even to someone who chooses never to go back on the pitch.
Series tropesUnderdog • Childhood Friends • Grief to Hope
Intended readershipWomen's fiction for readers who enjoy bodily confidence, complicated friendship and life after a cherished identity changes.
Tone & contentAdult friendship, bereavement, retirement and family tension. Each heroine’s ending belongs to her own future.
The people behind the promise
Free novellaNoreen Pugh, a widowed former goalkeeper, with childhood friend Val and her long-term partner.
Book 1Pat Ferris, a former captain and single mother, and her teenage daughter.
Book 2Alison Hartley, a former defender who has moved back after divorce, and Val.
Book 3Brenda Lowean old coach
Book 3Jennyher adult daughter and former teammate
Series arc
A forgotten pair of boots brings old friends into the same room. Three women make different choices about leisure, public recognition and authority over the next generation.
The three books
The direction is set. The books are written after you order.
Book 1 of three
Her First Saturday Without a Game
On Pat’s first free Saturday the kettle has boiled four times before breakfast. Her daughter leaves for a game without asking her to come. For twenty years somebody has always told Pat where to stand.
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Book 2 of three
A Shirt With Nobody's Number
A commemorative shirt arrives without Alison’s number. The organisers apologise for a printing error. Alison was on the pitch for every match in the photographs and nowhere in the official list.
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Book 3 of three
The Whistle in Her Daughter's Pocket
Jenny gives back the whistle Brenda passed down to her. She likes the game. She simply does not want a life in which every good choice resembles her mother’s.
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From the free novella into Book 1
An old team calls its first breakfast for former players. The woman who has nowhere else to go on Saturday attends Book 1’s opening meal.
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 Boots in the Loft, 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.
What you get with this pack
- Three completed booksDeveloped from the pack you choose.
- Editing and human proofreadingFor every manuscript.
- Three coordinated coversA recognisable identity across the series.
- Blurbs and Amazon metadataFor all three titles.
- A+ contentTo showcase your books on their Amazon pages.
Order this pack and your series enters our production queue; we confirm your scheduled start.
This pack has been sold. Each pack is only sold once.
3-book package
$705
$235 per book · Save $75
Order this packEach pack is only sold once.
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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