Subject: New Report: Dark Fantasy (first-ever edition)
New Report: Dark Fantasy (first-ever edition)
December 27th, 2019 at 7:13 pm EDTHi Friend, The current decade is about to come to a close. I do not want to finish it without answering the call by many fantasy authors to publish a report on dark fantasy. So here it is, our first-time-ever Dark Fantasy Fiction Report. Let's have ...
K-lytics Publishing Trends | December 2019
December 17th, 2019 at 3:44 pm EDTHi Friend, We are approaching the Christmas peak season rapidly. While some book categories will benefit from the shorter-term seasonal uplift in sales, we should not forget about the longer-term trend developments. Let’s examine some of the Kindle ...
New K-lytics Report: An '80s Revival Genre
December 10th, 2019 at 4:02 pm EDTHi Friend, I was a teenager back in the 1980s when there was one movie genre that "everybody" watched (or claimed to watch) and that I was not allowed to consume: horror. In a small town where everybody knew everybody, it was to fool the owner of t ...
Christmas Mysteries - Real Sales Data (free)
November 22nd, 2019 at 6:07 pm EDTHi Friend, A few weeks back, 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 ...
New K-lytics Teen & Young Adult Report 2019
November 1st, 2019 at 8:31 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 ...
A bright future for dystopias and apocalyptic events?
October 20th, 2019 at 7:29 pm EDTHi Friend, Where would you rather live? Option A) In an apocalypse where flesh-eating zombies run rampant and the comforts of modern society have disappeared. Option B) In a totalitarian system where fundamentalist religious zealots run rampant and ...
K-lytics Publishing Trends | October 2019
October 16th, 2019 at 12:20 pm EDTHi Friend, In this month’s edition of Kindle trends, we again identified Kindle categories that have shown a significant a sales rank movement over the last 12 months. This month, we picked such market niches for Romance, Mystery Thriller Suspense ...
Publishing for Christmas 2019 (free)
October 9th, 2019 at 10:25 pm EDTHi Friend, I have a gift for you: A special research study that is based on real peak-season sales data from the Amazon Kindle Store. Christmas means big business for many in the publishing industry. So if you ask yourself whether you should write a ...
Stop underestimating this genre
September 17th, 2019 at 7:18 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 three important market facts: - The average sales rank ...
New Romance Book Report - Summer 2019 Edition
August 29th, 2019 at 2:42 pm EDTHi Friend, Following our recent Mystery/Thriller/Suspense and Sci-Fi Fantasy market reports, we today live with our Summer 2019 Romance Book Report. Romance is the #1 genre on Kindle. This new issue reveals the best opportunities based on the comple ...