Small Town & Rural Fiction — lane score

Small Town & Rural Fiction lane score: live opportunity read, greenlight band Crowded, 307 reader demand signals in 30 days. Free, live, no sign-up.

What heat level readers expect here

Counted across 265 titles in this lane — 88% sit at steamy or hotter.

How this number is measured

Counted — not estimated — from the Tropesmith corpus, and recounted as the corpus grows: 2,887,936 Goodreads reviews, 1,774,077 shelf signals, 1,976,014 parsed reader demand signals and 81,380 BookTok videos, across 22,852 trope-tagged titles and 4,858 distinct tropes in 139 demand lanes. The raw response for this lane is available as JSON.

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