Subject: For the weekend: PNR 2022
For the weekend: PNR 2022
August 26th, 2022 at 5:57 pm EDTHi Friend, The weekend is almost here. In some time zones, including mine, people are likely and do anything but read e-mails at this hour. Therefore, I will save the official launch e-mail for next week. So just to let you know that we went live wi ...
Seven Years of Market Insights | Alex in London
August 19th, 2022 at 11:55 am EDTHi Friend, I was in my early teens when I visited London for the first time. My parents—tired of dealing with a moody teenager during the family vacation—handed me a London A-Z Guide, the money for a 7-day public transport Travelcard, and let me ...
New Mystery Thriller Suspense Report - 2022 Summer Edition
August 9th, 2022 at 2:46 pm EDTHi 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 ...
Trend Duration vs. Writing Time
August 4th, 2022 at 3:44 pm EDTHi Friend, Question: "How can I ever catch a trend if it takes me many months to write a book?" Answer: "Significant book market trends are a matter of years, not months." Last week, we launched our Billionaire Romance 2022 research report. The gen ...
Fifty Shades - It Ain't Over
July 29th, 2022 at 3:32 pm EDTHi Friend, Perhaps I was late to the party, but our last year's first-ever research on billionaire romance turned into a smash hit. Time for an update! I certainly learned my lesson and no longer dodge researching this genre. When "Fifty Shades of G ...
Urban Fantasy Market Insights 2022
July 14th, 2022 at 2:37 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, " ...
Breaking the Rules: New Genre Report
June 16th, 2022 at 7:48 am EDTHi Friend, If you like action heroes with the steely resolve of Lee Child's Jack Reacher,... ...the calculating will of Gregg Hurwitz's Orphan X,... ...the raw power of Mark Greaney's Gray Man,... ...the cunning of ex-Army criminal investigator Ra ...
K-lytics Publishing Trends | June 2022
June 14th, 2022 at 11:11 am EDTHi Friend, Welcome to this month's publishing trend review (free). I have good news. Based on four months of actual data reported by Amazon, it seems that 2022 will be yet another year of healthy double-digit growth for the Kindle book market. Our la ...
Clean Romance 2022 - New Market Report
May 27th, 2022 at 10:20 am EDTHi Friend, Six years ago, Amazon introduced the Clean Wholesome Romance category. It turned into a huge success. The average sales per day in Clean Wholesome more than tripled between 2016 and 2022 (year-to-date.) Sounds exciting? Yes, it is! – Cle ...
K-lytics Webinar + 18-month deal [Ends May 24th]
May 23rd, 2022 at 10:16 am EDTHi Friend, Thank you if you were able to attend last week's webinar on How to Write for Markets that Sell. Here are a couple of the many questions and topics we talked about: How working with cross-category information can reveal high-selling tropes ...