Subject: The thriller writers' answer to small-town romance
The thriller writers' answer to small-town romance
March 11th, 2022 at 8:18 pm EDTHi Friend, Do you want to write for a high-performing thriller market niche that mirrors the success of what "small-town" is for romance? Get the insights in our latest genre report. Dark family secrets shattering the "perfect life in the perfect ho ...
Fantasy Romance 2022 - Fantastic!
March 3rd, 2022 at 12:13 pm EDTHi Friend, Do you want to find the perfect blend of fantasy and romance? Get the insights in our latest genre report. Fantasy sells like crazy. If you missed this week's viral example: Brandon Sanderson's Kickstarter for four secret novels just rais ...
New Mystery Thriller Suspense Report - 2022 Edition
February 2nd, 2022 at 7:13 pm EDTHi Friend, We have been monitoring the mystery, thriller, suspense, and crime fiction categories on Amazon Kindle for more than seven years now. While many traditional publishers compete for this lucrative book market segment, we see a lot of smalle ...
How to make better decisions as a writer?
January 19th, 2022 at 7:46 am EDTHi Friend, The new year started with good news for authors: Amazon's KDP Global Select Fund of royalties paid out to indie authors and publishers closed the year 2021 at a total sum of $450.1 million. That's a 19.4% increase over the year before! ...
A genre for a break from reality (New K-lytics Report)
January 14th, 2022 at 12:23 pm EDTHi Friend, It is no secret that Amazon's Jeff Bezos, alongside literally every executive in the streaming space, wants to get his hands on the next Game of Thrones. Amazon gambled big, and it appears to be paying off: Prime Video's adaptation of Rob ...
K-lytics Publishing Trends | Kick-off 2022
January 7th, 2022 at 5:39 pm EDTHi Friend, Happy New Year! We have been busy generating new data to provide you with some facts and figures for your 2022 writing projects. Royalties paid out to Kindle authors via Amazon's Kindle Select Global Fund will close with 450 million U.S. d ...
Bad Timing
December 23rd, 2021 at 9:53 pm EDTHi Friend, It feels so awkward sending this email. It is now the third consecutive year that I write to our members and newsletter subscribers about a gloomy subject when Christmas is less than a day away, and everybody else sends out joyful Season ...
Where Romance meets Mystery, Suspense & Thrillers
December 9th, 2021 at 3:42 pm EDTHi Friend, Romance and MTS (Mystery/Thriller/Suspense) are the two highest-selling book markets in the Kindle store. No wonder the genre blend at the intersection—Romantic Suspense—has been so successful. One year ago, we published our first-eve ...
New K-lytics Teen & YA Report 2021
November 26th, 2021 at 5:56 pm EDTHi Friend, Teen books, coming-of-age, new adult, young adult—you name the segment—we are talking about a huge industry. No matter whether you write Romance, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Mystery or even nonfiction, teen and young adult readers represent a ma ...
Romance Beyond Amazon Categories | Trending Niche
November 19th, 2021 at 3:41 pm EDTHi Friend, Many popular romance genres lack a matching category in the official Amazon bestseller list hierarchy. Authors and publishers place their books across a whole number of categories, each with a varying degree of fit (or lack thereof.) Suc ...