Mystery: Crafting Pottery/Ceramics Cozy - Cracked Porcelain

Cracked Porcelain: An Art Gallery Explosion Exposes Sabotage Amid Fierce Ceramics Rivalries

Story Dossier + Outline

Premise:

Ceramics curator Sarah Keats faces chaos when a gallery kiln demo explodes, killing a featured artist and blamed on poor maintenance, but sabotage evidence draws her into a hunt for the truth to save her venue from closure.

✨ Genre: Crafting Pottery/Ceramics Cozy Mystery

✨ Tropes/Themes: Studio Explosion Death, Assumed Equipment Failure, Evidence of Deliberate Sabotage, Competition Between Artists, Hidden Safety Violations, Urban Art Scene, Public Scandal, Forged Alliances

✨ POV & Structure: First person present tense from a single POV, structured in a 4-act narrative.

✨ Vibe: Charming and engaging with a cozy touch that highlights urban creativity and clever sleuthing. It offers a feel-good puzzle amid artistic endeavors, keeping things light without romance to center entirely on investigative thrills and community ties.

✨ Book Size: Short Novel (40,000-60,000 words)

✨ Chapter Count: 25 Chapters

✨ Word Count: target 1800-2200 per chapter

✨ Heat Level: No Romance (plot-focused, no romantic elements)

What you get:

✅ Complete Premise with core concepts and Narrative Physics Architecture

✅ Complete Story Dossier — including detailed characters, relationship arcs, locations and objects, world rules and histories, multiple subplots, and market researched genre and style guides.

✅ A detailed 25 chapter outline.