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Cozy Mystery — lane score

Cozy Mystery lane score: opportunity 56/100 (rank 12 of 43), greenlight band Strong-buy, 25,882 reader demand signals in 30 days. Free, live, no sign-up.

Opportunity score56/100moderate opportunity · rank 12 of 43
GreenlightStrong-buyscore 88/100 · bankable
Reader demand, 30 days25,882signals counted in this lane
Typical list price$5.9959% of the lane is in Kindle Unlimited
Chart-topper ceiling$43,308per month, modelled at $5.99
Why this band: Strong unmet demand. Surging right now. Big earnings in this lane (chart-toppers up to ~$43,308/mo at $5.99).

Where the score comes from

ComponentPercentile in this lane
Reader demand83th
Revenue38th
Scarcity (how little is published against that demand)12th
Momentum93th

What heat level readers expect here

Counted across 34,609 titles in this lane — 91% sit at steamy or hotter.

Heat levelShare of the lane
steamy91%
sweet8%
spicy0%
explicit0%
dark0%

Length and series shape that sell here

Median Kindle length245 pages
Median length, all formats264 pages
Recent releases279 pages (was 321)
Length is trendingshorter
Novella-length share, recent26% (was 14%)
Dominant series shapeStandalone

How this number is measured

Counted — not estimated — from the Tropesmith corpus, and recounted as the corpus grows: 2,689,483 Goodreads reviews, 1,569,949 shelf signals, 1,834,346 parsed reader demand signals and 72,912 BookTok videos, across 11,596 trope-tagged titles and 4,422 distinct tropes in 139 demand lanes. The raw response for this lane is available as JSON.

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