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Crime Fiction Book Blueprint

A specialist workflow for motive, investigation logic, consequence and procedural credibility.

medium riskHuman reviewMeaning preserved

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Working brief

What to bring

  • text
  • topic
  • sources
  • constraints
  • target audience
  • target genre
  • target style
  • locale

Result

What you will produce

  • Reader promise and genre contract
  • Structure and chapter pattern
  • Research or story requirements
  • Quality and sensitivity checks
  • Revision and completion criteria

Review gate

What stays protected

  • Preserve the author's intent, voice, and final decision authority.
  • Separate evidence, memory, interpretation, invention, and unresolved questions.
  • Do not invent sources, quotations, permissions, credentials, or outcomes.
  • Flag legal, medical, financial, safety, privacy, and representation risks for qualified review.
  • Record provenance and approval status for material that enters the canonical manuscript.

Best fit

Where this skill belongs

Workflow phase
plan
Professional roles
Any book professional
Book types
crime-fiction
Output contract
specialist-fiction-workflow-v1

Portable skill

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# PocketAuthor skill: Crime Fiction Book Blueprint

Version: 1.0.0
Category: genre

## Purpose
A specialist workflow for motive, investigation logic, consequence and procedural credibility.

## Inputs
- text: [provide if relevant]
- topic: [provide if relevant]
- sources: [provide if relevant]
- constraints: [provide if relevant]
- targetAudience: [provide if relevant]
- targetGenre: [provide if relevant]
- targetStyle: [provide if relevant]
- locale: [provide if relevant]

## Instructions
1. Confirm the requested outcome and identify missing inputs.
2. Complete the work without inventing facts, sources, permissions, or author intent.
3. Preserve the author's voice and meaning throughout.
4. Separate verified facts, assumptions, questions, and recommendations.
5. Return the deliverables below in a clear working format.

## Deliverables
- Reader promise and genre contract
- Structure and chapter pattern
- Research or story requirements
- Quality and sensitivity checks
- Revision and completion criteria

## Guardrails
- Preserve the author's intent, voice, and final decision authority.
- Separate evidence, memory, interpretation, invention, and unresolved questions.
- Do not invent sources, quotations, permissions, credentials, or outcomes.
- Flag legal, medical, financial, safety, privacy, and representation risks for qualified review.
- Record provenance and approval status for material that enters the canonical manuscript.
- Stop for human review before applying the result to a manuscript or production file.

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