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The Small Town Where the Bakery Is Neutral Ground
Field Notes

A world-building reference catalog

The Small Town Where the Bakery Is Neutral Ground

The reference catalog your world has been waiting for.

Get a PDF world building reference with 50 setting details for a cosy paranormal rom com small town, including bakery truces, old ledgers…

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Can I type straight into it?

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When do I get it?

The second you pay. It downloads from the confirmation screen and lives in your account forever for re-downloads.

Can I see it before I buy?

Yes, scroll down. The peek section shows real spreads from this exact pack, so you know exactly what you're getting.

Why It's Different

Not just a world-building pack.

What's inside

55 details across 6 sections, each setting detail with its origin, present-day reality, and story friction.

What it fixes

It gives a brand-new small town the old rules, grudges, and neutral corners that let characters fall for each other while trying to settle a hedge dispute before the cinnamon buns run out.

No two alike

Every InkJaw pack gets its own jokes: the little notes in the margins, the whisper on the cover, the small stamps tucked into corners. We write them for this pack and nowhere else, so they keep making you laugh long after the first read.

The fine print

A full page of mock-legalese, written just for this pack — everything InkJaw formally declines responsibility for. The only terms and conditions you'll actually want to read.

Inside each detail
  • The detail From six in the morning until the last cinnamon bun leaves the counter, no resident may pursue a grievance inside Bellwether Bakery. Arguments can be logged on the slate by the till and resumed on the pavement after closing.
  • Where it came from Forty years ago, two rival covens overturned the breakfast service while disputing a boundary hedge. Mrs. Marnie Bellwether served both parties iced buns until they signed the first Neutral Ground Notice on a flour-stained napkin.
  • On the ground The front window fogs with butter and yeast, and the slate beside the till carries neat chalk entries such as “Hedge matter, pending” and “Do not sell Mr. Pike the almond twist.” A brass bell rings when somebody raises their voice above ordinary tea-shop volume.
  • The friction A character can delay a confrontation by arriving before the buns sell out, but everybody sees the tactic. If their rival writes the grievance on the slate first, the wording becomes public record and may acquire several unhelpful witnesses.
  • In context Nessa arrives with a carefully prepared accusation and finds Tomas already seated with a cinnamon bun, his complaint about her borrowed garden gate written on the slate in very legible chalk.
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