Plan Your Holiday Books with This Handy Tool

Holiday readers search in season-speak. They don't look for "a romance in October" — they type snowed in grumpy sunshine Christmas romance. A holiday book is a normal trope stack wearing a seasonal costume: one seasonal wrapper (the holiday hook) plus two or three core tropes (the relationship engine).

Work one wave at a time below. Your picks save automatically in this browser, and every completed wave lands in Your Q4 Lineup at the bottom — print it, or send it straight into the Q4 Marketing Planner when you're done.

Holiday readers are the most predictable buyers of the year — they show up on schedule, they search by season, and they binge everything on the shelf. The authors who win Q4 aren't the ones who write faster. They're the ones who planned early