Subject: Bad Timing
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 ...
K-lytics Publishing Trends | November 2021
November 9th, 2021 at 7:51 pm EDTHi Friend, Welcome to this month's publishing trend review. In this issue of Kindle trends, we again identified book categories that have shown a strong Amazon rank evolution over the last twelve months. We showcase such market niches for Romance, S ...
New Sci-fi & Fantasy Report 2021 / 2nd edition
November 4th, 2021 at 1:31 pm EDTHi Friend, I am happy to announce the second 2021 edition of your half-yearly Science Fiction Fantasy Genre Report. Given Amazon's recent category additions in the genre, our report provides a map of all 176 Sci-Fi Fantasy categories (down to Level- ...
Christmas Mysteries - Real Sales Data (free)
October 25th, 2021 at 7:21 pm EDTHi Friend, Last week, we published a free seasonal report about Christmas Romance books. I then received a whole number of requests from writers asking whether we could provide a similar report for the mystery, thriller, suspense, and crime genre. ...
Publishing for Christmas 2021 (free)
October 21st, 2021 at 4:49 pm EDTHi Friend, I have a gift for you: A special research study that is based on actual peak-season sales rank data from the Amazon Kindle Store. Christmas means big business for many in the publishing industry. So if you ask yourself whether you should ...
Romance Genre Report 2021 Fall Edition
October 13th, 2021 at 5:29 pm EDTHi Friend, We just released the 2021 fall edition of our K-lytics Romance market seminar. The report provides a complete overview of all categories available in the uncontested #1 market on Kindle: ROMANCE! Given Amazon's recent category additions i ...
Cozy Mystery 2021 | Highlights
October 10th, 2021 at 12:58 pm EDTHi Friend, The popularity of crime and mystery novels shows no sign of retiring. One market has been performing particularly well: Cozy Mystery. If you have never looked into "cozies," here are five important market facts: The average sales rank of ...