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Reminds me a lot of a Cessna Mixmaster. No front propeller, and the horizontal tail attaches to the engine cowling rather than crossing behind the propeller.
My instinct would be to go full Rutan, build a canard. If we're going with a single engine pusher. No need for the tail booms, everything produces lift, the main problem is flaps really aren't a thing with canards, you land them clean. But, if you're going to bolt VTOL to it somehow, who cares?
There's a thin line between "that looks kind of silly" and "it worked in Kerbal Space Program."
I mean, my vision is basically an electric Velocity.