Crime Fiction — lane score

Crime Fiction lane score: live opportunity read, greenlight band Promising, 0 demand signals logged in the last 30 days. Free, no sign-up.

Length and series shape that sell here

How this number is measured

Counted from the Tropesmith corpus, and recounted as the corpus grows (revenue figures are modelled from sales rank): 5,078,619 Goodreads reviews, 4,137,764 shelf signals, 2,894,363 demand-signal records and 145,637 BookTok videos, across 142,764 trope-tagged titles and 5,132 distinct tropes in 146 demand lanes. The raw response for this lane is available as JSON.

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