What if the hardest part of writing your next novel was already done?
You know you can write the story.
But first, you have to find the story.
What if you didn’t have to spend weeks wrestling with a premise that won’t quite come together? Building characters from scratch? Figuring out what happens in the middle? Untangling subplots? Staring at Chapter Twelve and wondering how on earth you’re supposed to get everyone to Chapter Thirty?
What if instead, you could begin with a compelling story world already waiting for you…
and make it completely your own?
Enter the Phoenix Muse Story Vault.
Phoenix Muse Story Vault offers fully developed novel concepts for writers who love writing but don’t love staring at an empty outline.
Each Story Vault Blueprint includes the premise, characters, worldbuilding, plot architecture, chapter-by-chapter outline, character arcs, subplots, twists, title ideas and market positioning needed to begin drafting.
You bring the voice, the prose, the imagination and the magic that only you can give it.
We give you the blueprint.
And because your novel should feel like your novel, each premium story is sold to one writer only.
Once claimed, it leaves the Vault.
SV001 THE GUARDIAN
DARK URBAN FANTASY • SUPERNATURAL THRILLER
THE HOOK
Every night, a revenant keeps New Orleans’ restless dead where they belong. When he walks off the job, thousands of souls escape into the city, and the supernatural authority that employed him sends something far worse to bring him back.
STORY DNA
Restless Dead • New Orleans • Reluctant Guardian • Supernatural Authority • Found Family
WHAT YOU GET TO EXPLORE
What happens when the creature responsible for protecting the living decides he’s had enough?
SV002 LYSSA’S CHARM
DARK FANTASY • SUPERNATURAL HORROR
THE HOOK
A mysterious book chooses curious readers and compels them to return to the same page again and again. Eventually, the words don’t merely capture their imagination.
They capture the reader.
STORY DNA
Cursed Book • Disappearing Readers • Dark Magic • Obsession • Story Within a Story
WHAT YOU GET TO EXPLORE
Where do readers go when a book refuses to let them leave?
SV003 THE SYNTHETIC
SPECULATIVE FICTION • MEDICAL THRILLER
THE HOOK
Synthetic human embryos were created to help scientists understand pregnancy and disease, never to become people.
Then one keeps developing.
Now everyone wants to decide what it is, who owns it, and whether something created in a laboratory has the right to call itself human.
STORY DNA
Biotechnology • Artificial Life • Personhood • Medical Ethics • Corporate Power
WHAT YOU GET TO EXPLORE
At what point does something created to imitate human life become human life?
SV004 UNDER YOUR SKIN
NEAR-FUTURE TECHNO-THRILLER • MEDICAL THRILLER
THE HOOK
Millions depend on smart tattoos that automatically deliver medication through their skin.
Then patients begin dying.
Someone has discovered that technology capable of deciding when to administer a lifesaving drug can also decide when not to.
STORY DNA
Smart Tattoos • Medical Technology • Conspiracy • Corporate Secrets • Race Against Time
WHAT YOU GET TO EXPLORE
What happens when millions of people’s medicine can be remotely turned against them?
SV005 THE OLD WITCHES’ HOME
COZY FANTASY • MAGICAL MYSTERY
THE HOOK
Five retired witches are supposed to spend their golden years gardening, playing aggressively competitive bingo, and staying out of magical affairs.
Then one of their oldest friends disappears.
Retirement can wait.
STORY DNA
Older Heroines • Witches • Magical Retirement Home • Mystery • Female Friendship
WHAT YOU GET TO EXPLORE
What happens when the magical world’s most underestimated witches have absolutely nothing left to prove and plenty of time to prove it anyway?
COMING SOON!