Contemporary Romance lane score: opportunity 63/100 (rank 3 of 43), greenlight band Strong-buy, 36,685 reader demand signals in 30 days. Free, live, no sign-up.
| Component | Percentile in this lane |
|---|---|
| Reader demand | 93th |
| Revenue | 93th |
| Scarcity (how little is published against that demand) | 0th |
| Momentum | 50th |
Counted across 46,048 titles in this lane — 93% sit at steamy or hotter.
| Heat level | Share of the lane |
|---|---|
| steamy | 80% |
| spicy | 9% |
| sweet | 8% |
| explicit | 2% |
| dark | 2% |
| sweet-to-explosive | 0% |
| Median Kindle length | 289 pages |
| Median length, all formats | 304 pages |
| Recent releases | 360 pages (was 376) |
| Length is trending | stable |
| Novella-length share, recent | 14% (was 4%) |
| Dominant series shape | Standalone |
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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