Subject: Christmas Mysteries - Real Sales Data (free)
Christmas Mysteries - Real Sales Data (free)
November 19th, 2023 at 11:34 pm ESTHi Friend, We recently 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. An ...
K-lytics Publishing Trends & A.I. Impact | Oct 2022
October 27th, 2023 at 5:14 pm ESTHi Friend, Welcome to this month's publishing trend review (free). It is time again to examine what has been happening in specific genres and selected niche markets. In this month's issue of Kindle Market Trends, we take a longer-term 5-year view at ...
Publishing for Christmas 2023 (free)
October 19th, 2023 at 10:49 pm ESTHi 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 ...
Falling Leaves, Rising Suspense
October 18th, 2023 at 12:29 pm ESTHi Friend, With autumn in full swing and the world adorned in a palette of fall colors, readers are irresistibly pulled towards the classic combo of warmth: - sipping on hot beverages, - settling into plush corners,- and losing themselves in the pa ...
Ad Challenge Starting Today!
October 11th, 2023 at 11:39 am ESTHi Friend, When you enter a term into the Kindle Store's search bar, Amazon will display up to seventeen results on the first page: sixteen books and one featured brand. Seven of these items are typically marked as "Sponsored." They are shown to you ...
A historical start into the new week
October 9th, 2023 at 8:03 am ESTHi Friend, Within Amazon Kindle's No. 1 genre, Romance, we find more than 100 sub-markets. One of the bigger ones is historical romance. Changes Fans of the genre will be happy to learn that Amazon just added three new sub-genres to the Historical ...
Cozy mystery search interest: Astonishing!
September 27th, 2023 at 2:45 pm ESTHi Friend, In case you missed my announcement about our new Cozy Mystery 2023 Report, it is now available, including bonus reports and a seminar video. ⇒ K-lytics Cozy Mystery Seminar 2023 What I found the most striking is the continued long-term ...
Cozy Mystery 2023 | Market news for writers
September 22nd, 2023 at 5:07 pm ESTHi Friend, Every genre has various subgenres. That creates both endless possibilities and the potential for the successful use of tropes and formulaic writing. Well, duh. What I find interesting, though, is that a specific theme, approach, or trope ...
Romance | Beyond the normal
September 13th, 2023 at 10:48 am ESTHi Friend, 54% of the Amazon Kindle's Top-400 most sold books in 2023 thus far are Romance titles. More than 23% of those 215 Romance top-sellers—almost one out of every four—involve paranormal/fantasy tropes. In other words, where vampires, shi ...
Amazon Category Alert | More changes happening
September 13th, 2023 at 8:37 am ESTHi Friend, We just finalized the latest update of the K-lytics category performance database. Going through some 8,000+ bestseller lists, we noticed many changes compared to last month. ONGOING AMAZON CATEGORY MODIFICATIONS Amazon made several ch ...