Subject: Shooting Star: Psychological Thrillers
Shooting Star: Psychological Thrillers
February 21st, 2020 at 5:48 pm ESTHi Friend, Psychological Thrillers take us on an adrenaline ride through the twists and turns of dark secrets, crimes, and mysteries mixed with the unsettling behavior patterns and mind-games going on in the main characters. The genre has become a l ...
Publishing Trends | February 2020 (free)
February 19th, 2020 at 5:34 pm ESTHi Friend, Welcome to our first publishing trend review in 2020. In this month's edition of Kindle trends, we again identified book categories that have shown a remarkable Kindle rank development over the last 12 months. We picked such markets for Ro ...
All about Romantic Comedy
January 31st, 2020 at 12:45 pm ESTHi Friend, Romantic Comedy offers the perfect escapism in a troubled and "heavy" world. People have an appetite for something light. We see a renaissance of the rom-com genre. While big-screen studio productions brought the funny love back into thea ...
About Superheroes and more in 2020
January 23rd, 2020 at 7:23 pm ESTHi Friend, NEW REPORT Powers beyond those of mere humans combined with the mission and ability to do good; we probably need more such characters on this planet: Superheroes (and heroines.) In the arts, superheroes often have a double identity: the s ...
New Mystery Thriller Suspense Report - 2020 Edition
January 14th, 2020 at 2:53 am ESTHi Friend, We have been monitoring the mystery, thriller, suspense, and crime fiction categories on Amazon Kindle for more than five years now. While many traditional publishers compete for this lucrative book market segment, we see a lot of smaller ...
New Report: Dark Fantasy (first-ever edition)
December 27th, 2019 at 7:13 pm ESTHi 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 ESTHi 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 ESTHi 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 ESTHi 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 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 ...