The State of Romance H1 2026 Compendium: Fifteen Market Intelligence Reports, One Download

K-lytics charges $37 to $47 for one genre report. This is fifteen of them for $49.

The State of Romance H1 2026 Compendium is the complete first-half market intelligence library: all 14 genre market intelligence reports plus the cross-niche State of Romance H1 2026 flagship that pools them into a single picture. 3,011 unique bestseller titles across 14 Amazon niche lists, read against Google Trends, Reddit, YouTube, and AO3 signals, all collected January through June 2026. Roughly 150,000 words of it.

For working romance authors, indie publishers, and PR teams deciding where to launch or reposition a title. Every report carries a runnable Amazon Sponsored Products ASIN targeting appendix, so the findings arrive with the ad lists to act on them. Bought separately, the fifteen run $156.85. Together they are $49, about 69% off.

Data collected January-June 2026. By EJ Nyman, Monster Romance Reviews.

Inside this compendium:

• The flagship: State of Romance H1 2026 — The cross-niche synthesis, roughly 42 pages. Pools all 3,011 titles into a break-in difficulty ranking, a per-niche trope cheat-sheet (each shelf's lead trope plus its differentiator), a co-listing map where Paranormal and Shifter share 102 titles, the tightest peer pair in the corpus, and a 445-author cross-niche table. One author, Sadie Kincaid, reaches 10 of the 14 niches.
• The 14 genre reports — One market intelligence report per shelf, each with its own tropes, pricing bands, author-concentration score, newcomer rate, six-month churn, and verbatim reader-language pull. Full roster below.
• A runnable ASIN appendix in every report — Verbatim Amazon ASINs for hub titles and six-month persistence authors, formatted to load straight into Sponsored Products. Each report also carries embedded data visualizations and a candid Known Limitations section that shows its own seams.
• What the cross-niche read surfaces — Romantasy is the most concentrated shelf in the set, its top-5 authors holding 43.7% of the titles, while Alpha Male is the most open at 12.7%. Dark Romance is the only subgenre besides Romance Overall to register in Google Trends' leading interest tier. An open lane can mean genuinely winnable or simply fast-cycling and volatile, and each report marks where that line falls rather than selling the upside alone.

The 15 reports:

1. State of Romance H1 2026 (the cross-niche flagship)
2. Alpha Male Romance
3. Contemporary Romance
4. Dark Romance
5. Erotic Romance
6. Gothic Romance
7. LGBTQ+ Romance
8. Paranormal Romance
9. Polyamory Romance
10. Romance (Overall)
11. Romantasy
12. Romantic Suspense
13. Sci-Fi Romance
14. Shifter Romance
15. Vampire Romance

Subscribe and save: The compendium is a one-time purchase. A Bestiary Society membership ($70/yr) gets you every new market report, lore deep dive, annotated bibliography, and reading list as it drops.