Tropesmith is a research tool for romance authors. For $15 a Map, you describe one book idea and get a written plan: which tropes to use, which comp titles to study and which risks to watch. It is worth trying if you are choosing what to write next. It is not a keyword tool, and it does not forecast what your book will earn. We built it, so treat this page as a plain description, not an outside opinion.
One credit unlocks one full Map, a pre-launch blueprint for a single book idea. The pricing page lists what a Map covers, including:
You choose the subgenre, heat level, format and length, and can name tropes you are committed to or will not write. See two sample Maps end to end before you buy.
A single Map is $15. Buying more credits lowers the price per Map: $13 each for 2 to 5, $11.50 each for 6 to 10 and $10.50 each for 11 or more. Credits never expire. A Live Board add-on, which keeps your lane's counts updated, is $7 a month. Prices are from the pricing page on 18 October 2026.
Filling in the form takes about a minute. Your Map is emailed to you, usually within the hour.
Yes. The free Lite Map scores your subgenre, with its greenlight band, the economics and the length sweet spot, so you can see the lane before you spend anything. Beyond that there are free tools such as the Trope Demand checker, Lane Score and Trope Pairs.
Tropesmith counts demand signals: specific things readers asked for or praised in Goodreads and Amazon reviews, BookTok comments and captions, Reddit posts and Amazon Q&A, picked out by a classifier. Most of them come from reviews, so the data leans toward readers who write reviews. The classifier tags each signal as common, underserved or novel from its text alone and cannot see what is on the shelf. A tag points at where to look. It does not prove that no book answers the signal. How we count explains the rest.
Each of these answers a different question from Tropesmith's, and we say where they are the better choice:
A Tropesmith Map scores your exact trope stack against the data. Read a sample Map first if you want to see what $15 buys.
Build my Map → See a real sample Map first →That depends on the decision in front of you. If you are choosing between book ideas or trope combinations before you write, a Map is built for that job. Read a sample Map and try the free Lite Map first; if neither helps you decide, skip it.
Tropesmith is part of the Coral Hart Group. It publishes how it counts its data, and it has a privacy policy and terms. The quickest test is to try the free Lite Map and read a sample Map before you pay for anything.
Filling in the form takes about a minute, and the Map is emailed to you, usually within the hour.
No. A Map includes market economics for the lane, such as typical price, Kindle Unlimited share and estimated monthly earnings for a typical book and a top-10 book, but none of it is a forecast of what your book will earn.
Yes. The free Lite Map scores your subgenre, with its greenlight band, the economics and the length sweet spot. You can also read sample Maps and use the free tools, including the Trope Demand checker, Lane Score and Trope Pairs.
Part of the romance market intelligence hub. Tropesmith is a Coral Hart Group company.