Digital + printable planner for cosy mystery writers
The Ultimate Cosy Mystery Writing Planner
A charming village, a curious sleuth and a murder to solve
Choose your format
What you get with the Goodnotes & PDF edition
- 88-page digital planner with clickable tabs, contents and back links
- Two designs: Classic and the colourful Pop design
- Printable US Letter versions of both designs
- Recommended Resources for Authors PDF
A hyperlinked PDF for Goodnotes, Notability, Noteshelf and other PDF note apps on iPad or Android tablets. Tap the tabs and contents to jump between pages.
About this planner
Plan your Cosy Mystery novel from the first idea to publication day. The Cosy Mystery Writing Planner is written for Cosy Mystery writers, so its prompts, examples and story structure fit the book you are writing. Its 11 sections cover idea, mystery, community, plot, sleuth, cast, world, write, edit, pitch & blurb and publish.
It comes as Goodnotes & PDF, Microsoft Word, Notion template, Scrivener template, Plottr template and E-ink edition, or as a printed, spiral-bound planner, so you can plan in the app you already use.
Sample pages
Take a look inside
Real pages from the Cosy Mystery Writing Planner, in both designs. Tap a page to see it bigger.
What's inside
11 sections, 88 pages in the PDF
Idea7 pages
- What if? & premise
- Subgenre & tropes
- Comparable titles
Mystery8 pages
- Crime, victim & culprit
- Eight-suspect board
- Clues & red herrings
Community5 pages
- The community & the hook
- The locals
- Recipes & extras
Plot10 pages
- Cosy mystery structure
- Plot map & intrigue graph
- Scene lists & scene cards
Sleuth6 pages
- Sleuth profile & voice
- Why do they get involved?
- The sleuth's circle
Cast5 pages
- Supporting cast list
- Six cast profiles
- Relationship web
World4 pages
- Setting: the big picture
- Specific locations
- Research list & notes
Write7 pages
- Plan of action
- Opening lines
- 100-day word tracker
Edit6 pages
- Cosy checklist
- Plot holes & scene changes
- Beta readers & editors
Pitch & Blurb7 pages
- Logline & elevator pitch
- Hooks & taglines
- Blurb workshop & drafts
Publish7 pages
- Book details & cover brief
- Amazon keywords
- Categories & checklist
Section and page counts are for the Goodnotes & PDF edition; the other formats hold the same planning pages, arranged to suit each app.
Highlights
Made for Cosy Mystery writers
A murder to puzzle over
- The crime, the victim and the culprit
- Suspect boards with room for eight suspects
- A clue tracker and a page of red herrings
- A page to plan the reveal
A village readers return to
- The community, its locals and the hook
- Recipes and extras, plus a series arc
- Why your sleuth gets involved, and the sleuth's circle
- Sleuth profile: voice, history, wound and flaw
Keep the intrigue building
- Cosy Mystery Structure and three-act structure pages
- Plot map, intrigue graph, subplots and chapter hooks
- Scene lists and 12 scene cards
- Six cast profiles, a relationship web and setting pages
Write, edit and publish
- Plan of action and a 100-day word count tracker
- A Cosy Checklist for your edit
- Logline, hooks, taglines and a blurb workshop
- Amazon keywords, categories and a cover brief
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