Subject: New Mystery Thriller Suspense Report - 2022 Edition
New Mystery Thriller Suspense Report - 2022 Edition
February 2nd, 2022 at 7:13 pm ESTHi 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 ESTHi 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 ESTHi 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 ESTHi 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 ESTHi 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 ESTHi 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 ESTHi 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 ESTHi 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 ESTHi 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 ESTHi 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- ...