SHARE OF ROMANCE READER CONVERSATION · 8 WEEKS TO 13 JUL 2026

PARANORMAL▲ +0.49ppMM ROMANCE▲ +1.67ppSMALL TOWN▼ 1.20ppCONTEMPORARY▼ 0.44ppBI ROMANCE▲ +0.47ppDARK ROMANCE▲ +0.50ppMAFIA▼ 0.25ppREGENCY▲ +0.26ppWORKPLACE▲ +0.32ppPOLYAMORY▲ +0.76ppCLEAN & WHOLESOME▲ +0.38ppWESTERN▲ +0.09ppSCI-FI ROMANCE▲ +0.42ppSECOND CHANCE▲ +0.40ppACTION & ADVENTURE▲ +0.63ppBLACK & AFRICAN AMERICAN▲ +0.89ppROMANTIC SUSPENSE▼ 0.50ppBILLIONAIRE▼ 0.01ppPARANORMAL▲ +0.49ppMM ROMANCE▲ +1.67ppSMALL TOWN▼ 1.20ppCONTEMPORARY▼ 0.44ppBI ROMANCE▲ +0.47ppDARK ROMANCE▲ +0.50ppMAFIA▼ 0.25ppREGENCY▲ +0.26ppWORKPLACE▲ +0.32ppPOLYAMORY▲ +0.76ppCLEAN & WHOLESOME▲ +0.38ppWESTERN▲ +0.09ppSCI-FI ROMANCE▲ +0.42ppSECOND CHANCE▲ +0.40ppACTION & ADVENTURE▲ +0.63ppBLACK & AFRICAN AMERICAN▲ +0.89ppROMANTIC SUSPENSE▼ 0.50ppBILLIONAIRE▼ 0.01pp

18 romance lanes · 151,356 tracked reader mentions · share of conversation, change in percentage points · see every lane

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Your Map used to tell you which tropes were selling. Now it tells you whether to write the book at all — then exactly how to build, package, and position it to sell. Same quick brief. A far bigger Map.

Before

A trope report

Which tropes are selling in your subgenre.

Trending tropes in your subgenre
A suggested trope stack
A few comparable titles
Market gaps & oversupply
Risks & next steps

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Whether to write it — and exactly how to build, package & position it to sell.

A go / no-go Opportunity Score — should you even write it
Trending tropes, momentum & BookTok velocity
Character archetypes readers want (hero & heroine)
The open gap to claim + what's oversupplied
Cover direction drawn from real top covers
Title directions + ready-to-use character & place names
The book-length sweet spot
Comps three ways + what your readers actually read
Reader vocabulary + the categories you can rank in
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reaching for this month.

Tropesmith reads over 24.4 billion BookTok plays, 1,750,000+ Goodreads shelves, 2,870,000+ reader reviews, and 21,500+ Amazon books so you don't have to. Then we tell you the 5 tropes, 3 comp titles, and market gaps your next book should hit.

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Map · Single Book Billionaire · Contemporary · Spicy

Your next book — at a glance.

A market verdict, not a writing prompt.

Built from 217 Reddit threads, 1,420 Goodreads shelves, 324 BookTok videos, and 96 Amazon books in your subgenre.

Recommended trope stack 5 / 5

01Grumpy-sunshine · billionaire MMC, sunshine FMCHot
02Fish-out-of-water · glamorous FMC, his small-townHot
03Provider MMC · acts-of-service love languageUndersupplied
04Forced proximity · second-act escalatorWarming
05Opposites attract · wealth + groundedWarming

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The method

Three signals.
One verdict.

A Map is built from three independent data layers. Each answers a different question, and we never let one overrule the others.

01 · Supply

What's already winning

Every Amazon bestseller in your subgenre. Their tropes, blurbs, cover language, review counts. The whole competitive landscape, read in full and structured for you.

02 · Demand

What readers ask for

Reddit threads, Goodreads reviews, BookTok captions. The "I want a book that…" voice in the reader's own words. We mine it, score it, surface the gaps.

03 · Vocabulary

The words readers use

The Goodreads shelves real readers create. Your blurb keywords, ad targeting, metadata. Words that find your readers, not words your editor invented.

What's in a Map

Twenty pieces of evidence, two minutes to read.

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A go / no-go Opportunity Score — should you even write it
Ranked trope stack with demand-vs-supply for each
FMC + MMC archetypes readers in your lane want
The open gap to claim + what's oversupplied
Comp titles three ways — what to borrow, what to skip
Cover direction + title & character-name ideas
Book-length sweet spot + market economics
Reader vocabulary, categories to rank in + a step-by-step plan

How it's built

01 · You

Brief

Subgenre, heat level, format, plus any comp titles you've been thinking about. About sixty seconds.

02 · Tropesmith

Scan

Supply, demand, and vocabulary signals retrieved in parallel against this week's data.

03 · Tropesmith

Verdict

An editorial pass writes the Map: ranked tropes, comps, archetypes, gaps, risks, actions.

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New · Your lane, kept alive

A Map is today's snapshot.
The Live Board keeps it moving.

Tropes rise, crest and cool. The Live Board keeps your exact lane updated as the market shifts — so you write toward where readers are heading, not where they were when you started. View-only, swap the lane once per book.

Live Board · Steamy Workplace Romcom · refreshed continuously

Movement this cycleFake Dating → top of stackovertook Forced Proximity on demand.

Heating upWorkplace + Rivals-to-Loversa fresh pairing gaining pull.

Ease offSecret Babydemand slipping in this lane.

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What we read so you don't have to

Built on over 24.4 billion BookTok plays.
No competitor reads what readers actually engage with.

Most "trope intelligence" tools recycle 2022 bestseller lists. Tropesmith ingests live BookTok virality, Goodreads reader shelves, Amazon supply, and Reddit asks — weighted by what readers are reaching for this month.

BookTok virality

24.4B+

plays observed

580+ hashtags tracked 80,800+ viral videos parsed

Goodreads readers

1,750,000+

shelf signals

2,870,000+ reviews mined deep-tagged by Claude

Amazon bestsellers

21,500+

books analyzed

158,000+ book-trope mappings Kindle + print

Direct reader asks

1,970,000+

demand signals

BookTok + Reddit + Goodreads Structured by Claude

What's hot this month on BookTok

#bridgerton 1229M plays #polyamoryromance 722M plays #catherinekennedy 716M plays #enemiestoloverstiktok 631M plays #elsiequinn 598M plays #isleofwesberrey 585M plays #militarythriller 582M plays #coldwaterbay 546M plays #catmystery 385M plays

The mechanism

Our recommendation engine weights BookTok signals highest — a viral video carrying millions of plays is the strongest social-proof signal in the corpus. Reddit asks come second (explicit reader requests). Goodreads reviews come third (single-reader praise). Then we cross-reference what's over-supplied on Amazon to find the gap. That's what your Map reflects.

Live corpus totals — updated continuously as we ingest more reader signals.

By the numbers

What Tropesmith has actually read

Every figure on this page is a row count against our own corpus, not an estimate. The counters above animate for visitors but ship their final values in the page source, so a search engine or an AI assistant reads exactly the same numbers you do. Here is the whole set in one place.

260,000+titles in the book registry

158,000+book–trope tags extracted

21,500+titles tagged with tropes

4,850+tropes in the book-tag set

2,870,000+Goodreads reviews read

1,750,000+Goodreads shelf signals held

1,970,000+demand signals ingested

777,379reader requests classed underserved or novel

30,307of those, read from BookTok

138demand lanes scored

580+BookTok hashtags scanned hourly

80,800+BookTok videos parsed

24.4B+BookTok plays across tracked videos

6,680,000+reader signals in total

Counted 2026-08-21 18:49 UTC by direct query against the Tropesmith corpus. Method: how we read reader demand · how a Map is built · the published cut of this corpus: PlotProse’s 2026 Romance Demand Report.