Initial Hugo skeleton, adapted from michaelferrara-site

Fantasy Michigan theme (forest green / lake teal / birch parchment). Reader-magnet content is placeholder pending Cate's story and cover art.
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+---
+title: "Get A Story"
+description: "TODO: one to two sentence back-cover-style hook for the free short story. Fantasy Michigan — think old growth forest, a lake that remembers, something waiting under the water. Written by Cate Conners."
+type: "courses"
+eec_slug: "reader-magnet"
+
+# Optional italic line under the title, for handling an objection up front.
+hero_subhead: "This story, occasional emails when something new comes out and other things you want in your inbox."
+
+# Label on the signup form's submit button.
+cta_text: "Send me the story"
+
+# Cover image, hosted in the public downloads bucket alongside the epub.
+# Used as the on-page hero image.
+# TODO: replace with the real cover once it exists — see downloads-uploader.
+cover_image: "https://downloads.cateconners.com/reader-magnet/cover.jpg"
+
+# Optional: a landscape (1200x630) variant of the cover for social-share
+# previews (og:image/Twitter card). Falls back to cover_image if unset --
+# see layouts/_default/baseof.html.
+social_image: "https://downloads.cateconners.com/reader-magnet/cover_social.jpg"
+
+# Direct link to the epub in the public downloads bucket — shown as an
+# on-page button immediately after a successful signup, independent of the
+# welcome email (see layouts/partials/course-enroll-form.html).
+# TODO: replace with the real epub link once the story is ready.
+download_url: "https://downloads.cateconners.com/reader-magnet/story.epub"
+download_text: "Download now"
+
+# Optional heading above the repeated signup form at the bottom of the page.
+repeat_cta_heading: "Want the story?"
+---
+<!--
+TODO: this whole page is placeholder copy, stubbed in ahead of Cate's actual
+story/title/blurb. Replace once her manuscript and cover art are ready, and
+flip cateconners-eec-courses's courses/reader-magnet/course.yml `active` to
+true — see that repo's README.
+-->
+
+Somewhere north of the tree line, where the maples go quiet and the lake
+keeps its own counsel, something has been waiting a long time to be found.
+
+Sign up to my mailing list and I'll send you a free short story — a little
+Fantasy Michigan magic for your inbox, plus occasional word when something
+new comes out.