Daily bestseller data from across dark romance, contemporary, romantasy and historical, read through a behavioural economics lens. Romintel tells you not just what's selling, but why readers are picking it up.
Most indie romance authors make marketing decisions on vibes. A cover feels right. A trope sounds hot on TikTok. A launch price is copied from a friend who copied it from a Facebook group thread from 2022.
The tools that exist either give you raw numbers with no interpretation, over-editorialised takes with no data behind them, or earnings estimates the community has stopped trusting.
Romintel sits in the gap. It reads the Amazon bestseller charts daily, tracks trope saturation, cover signal, KU penetration and price bands, and explains the reader psychology underneath the numbers. So your next release isn't a guess.
Most analytics tools are built for all of indie publishing. Romance reads differently, and deserves data that reads differently too.
| What it offers | Other tools | Romintel |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | All of indie publishing. Broad. | Only romance and romantasy sub-genres. Deep. |
| Interpretation | Snapshots. You figure it out. | Behavioural economics layered on every data point. |
| Trope signal | Categorical, "is this dark romance?" | Saturation, heat, velocity per trope per sub-genre. |
| Cover data | Not tracked. | Style, mood, and dominant palette, enriched daily. |
| Refresh cadence | Weekly or less. | Daily, automated. |
Stage 1 is live and open to everyone. Stages 2 and 3 are being built for authors who want the intelligence layered on their own sales, ads, and launch windows.
One short dispatch per week, the week's strongest trope movement, a cover pattern worth knowing, and the market reading underneath. Plus early access when Stage 2 opens.