Historical Romance lane score: opportunity 65/100 (rank 4 of 51), greenlight band Strong-buy, 3,997 reader demand signals in 30 days. Free, live, no sign-up.
| Component | Percentile in this lane |
|---|---|
| Reader demand | 94th |
| Revenue | 64th |
| Scarcity (how little is published against that demand) | 4th |
| Momentum | 100th |
Counted across 13,380 titles in this lane — 57% sit at steamy or hotter.
| Heat level | Share of the lane |
|---|---|
| sweet | 43% |
| steamy | 35% |
| spicy | 15% |
| dark | 4% |
| explicit | 3% |
| null | 0% |
| Median Kindle length | 313 pages |
| Median length, all formats | 336 pages |
| Recent releases | 266 pages (was 627) |
| Length is trending | shorter |
| Novella-length share, recent | 0% (was 0%) |
| Dominant series shape | Standalone |
Counted — not estimated — from the Tropesmith corpus, and recounted as the corpus grows: 4,243,908 Goodreads reviews, 3,173,892 shelf signals, 2,585,510 parsed reader demand signals and 134,324 BookTok videos, across 114,018 trope-tagged titles and 5,093 distinct tropes in 145 demand lanes. The raw response for this lane is available as JSON.
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