Subject: Stop underestimating this genre
Stop underestimating this genre
October 1st, 2021 at 8:30 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 ...
Historical Romance 2021 - The Bridgerton Effect
September 24th, 2021 at 7:56 am EDTHi Friend, Within romance, we find more than 90 sub-markets. One of the bigger sub-genres is historical romance. For fans of this genre, 2021 started with a bang: Netflix's Regency-era series Bridgerton, adapted from Julia Quinn's historical romance ...
K-lytics Publishing Trends | September 2021
September 12th, 2021 at 12:09 pm EDTHi Friend, Welcome to our latest publishing trend review. New Category Alert Amazon made several changes to its Kindle category structure in recent weeks. Some are minor and occurred at a low level in the browse hierarchy; others were more significa ...
New Paranormal Romance Report 2021 + Extra
September 8th, 2021 at 6:15 am EDTHi Friend, Where vampires, shifters, or aliens fall in love, there is big money: Paranormal romance is one of the highest-selling Romance e-book markets. Enough reason to take a closer look at this major market. In our new Paranormal Romance 2021 re ...
Don't underestimate this genre
August 24th, 2021 at 2:32 pm EDTHi Friend, Did you know that Western Romance is one of the major sub-markets of the Romance genre? I am not only talking about classic "mail-order bride" or "frontier romance." I mean the vast contemporary romance market, where protagonists wearin ...
Mystery Thriller Suspense Report - 2021 Summer Edition
August 9th, 2021 at 5:00 pm EDTHi Friend, Throughout the last 18 months, the Mystery, Thrillers Suspense bestseller list has been largely unaffected by global events. Quite the contrary: the genre held on to its lead position (together with Romance) on the Kindle platform. Intere ...
My worst publishing industry prediction ever
July 28th, 2021 at 10:46 am EDTHi Friend, I must admit that I have avoided studying this market ever since I started K-lytics. When "Fifty Shades of Grey" took off, I thought it would be a short-lived phenomenon. "It is just a hype!" That was definitely the worst publishing indus ...
Going Strong: Urban Fantasy Report 2021
July 23rd, 2021 at 5:48 pm EDTHi Friend, For the third year in a row, "Paranormal Urban" was the #1 highest-selling category out of all 111 Fantasy sub-markets Urban Fantasy is a genre that merges the best of real-world mystery, thriller and suspense fiction with fantasy, for e ...
K-lytics Publishing Trends | July 2021
July 19th, 2021 at 11:36 am EDTHi Friend, Welcome to this summer's publishing trend review. In this month's 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 R ...
When magic hits the city 2021
July 5th, 2021 at 8:30 pm EDTHi Friend, Do you like stories that mix fantasy with the everyday? - If yes, this is for you. If not, you may still want to find out about this book market because it represents a lot of readers who buy a lot of books. For the third year in a row, " ...