52%
Romance is now more than half of US adult fiction print sales. 2025 closed at a record high share.
Circana BookScan · 2025 full year
Threnne · The romance studio · 2026
The studio built around romance.
We follow the most-read genre in fiction from idea to published to screen, building the research and the tools that move it forward.
What we are paying attention to
50M
Books sold through BookTok since launch. Discovery moved from the front table to the For You page.
TikTok Newsroom · March 2026
21w
A 2019 romance spent five months on the NYT list after a streaming adaptation.
NYT Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
What we are making
We track the industry, and we build for the people inside it.
The industry
Romance Signal Research live
Sub-trope demand signals for romance.
What is selling now, what is about to, and what is poised to make the jump to screen. Traced across Goodreads, Amazon, Reddit, and the NYT list.
Currently watchingLive
Heated Rivalry
Rachel Reid · Game Changers #2
397K
+1.2K wk
In Her Own League
Liz Tomforde · Windy City
155K
+1.1K wk
Last First Kiss
Julian Winters · 24 Carter
1.5K
+6 wk
The pipeline
AO3 Works Beta · Free forever
A free formatting tool for new writers.
Some of romance's biggest names started by experimenting online. AO3 Works helps that next generation build and preview social layouts and text-fic formats in the browser, with no CSS required.
Jordan✔@jordanwrites the bridge scene rewrite is done and somehow it hurts MORE now. i did this to myself.
3:14 AM · Mar 12, 2026
The community
The Exchange Beta · Joining in rounds
Romance writers reading romance writers.
A credit-based feedback exchange, matched by subgenre and heat level. Read to earn credits, or buy them. Quality standards stay the same on both paths.
You read
Someone else's romance manuscript
⇄
You earn
Credits toward feedback on yours
Matched by subgenre + heat level
Stay close
Hear from us when there is something worth hearing.
No cadence, no drip campaigns. Just new tools, firmed-up research, and occasional notes. Roughly once a month, sometimes less.