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Market intelligence · For romance authors

The romance market is talking.
Tropesmith reads every word.

Every month we read thousands of Amazon bestsellers, Goodreads shelves, Reddit threads and BookTok captions so you don't have to. Then we tell you exactly what to write next.

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Map · Single Book Billionaire · Contemporary · Spicy · Standalone

Your next book — at a glance.

A market verdict, not a writing prompt.

Recommended trope stack · Top 5of 9 sections
  1. 01Grumpy-sunshine · billionaire MMC, sunshine FMCHot
  2. 02Fish-out-of-water · glamorous FMC, his small-townHot
  3. 03Provider MMC · acts-of-service love languageHot · undersupplied
  4. 04Forced proximity · second-act escalatorWarming
  5. 05Opposites attract · wealth + groundedWarming
Comp titles · top 3 of 5
It Happened One Summer
Tessa Bailey
Borrow · structural blueprint
King of Wrath
Ana Huang
Borrow · opposites-attract
Wild Love
Elsie Silver
Skip · ranch setting
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

Nine pieces of evidence, ranked.

Every Map ships with the same skeleton. The market verdict changes; the structure doesn't. Read it like an editor would read a manuscript report.

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You

Brief

Subgenre, heat level, format, plus any comp titles you've been thinking about. ~60 seconds.

Tropesmith

Scan

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

Tropesmith

Verdict

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

At scale

We read the market at scale,
so you don't have to.

3,400+
Amazon bestsellers parsed monthly
280k
Goodreads reviews mined
11k
Reddit threads tracked across r/RomanceBooks & siblings
420+
Maps shipped to indie authors
The Map flagged a trope I'd planned the whole book around as oversupplied — and pointed me at one I'd never considered. Two months later it's my best-selling release.
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For authors who don't have time

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Or you could write the book.

A week on Goodreads. A month tracking Amazon ranks. Survey BookTok every night. Or let Tropesmith do it and spend that time writing the book that's actually going to sell.

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What we read so you don't have to

Built on 534 million 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
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plays observed
31 hashtags tracked 910 viral videos parsed
Goodreads readers
0
shelf signals
6,711 reviews mined 216 books deep-tagged
Amazon bestsellers
0
books analyzed
12,784 tropes extracted Kindle + print
Direct reader asks
0
demand signals
BookTok + Reddit + Goodreads Structured by Claude
What's hot this month on BookTok
#darkromance 127M plays #bridgerton 61M plays #romancetok 45M plays #icebreaker 38M plays #romancebooks 35M plays #acotar 14M plays #darkromancebooks 10M plays #workplaceromance 7M plays #romantasy 7M 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.

Data refreshed monthly. Numbers above current as of .