Small Town & Rural Fiction lane score: opportunity 41/100 (rank 45 of 54), greenlight band Promising, 145 demand signals logged in the last 30 days. Free, no sign-up.
| Component | Percentile among scored lanes |
|---|---|
| Demand signals logged (all time) | 6th |
| Revenue (modelled) | 57th |
| Fewer titles linked to the lane than other lanes | 77th |
| Top-100 chart turnover (where the lane is charted) | 40th |
Counted across 237 titles in this lane — 55% sit at steamy or hotter.
| Heat level | Share of the lane |
|---|---|
| sweet | 46% |
| spicy | 30% |
| steamy | 16% |
| dark | 8% |
| explicit | 1% |
| Median Kindle length | 277 pages |
| Median length, all formats | 294 pages |
| Dominant series shape | Standalone |
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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