HeyJaredMonster Romance Reviews
Market trends, cultural analysis, and author spotlights on monster romance—powered by a data scientist with a MLIS who fell hard for fictional creatures.
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The Bestiary Briefing — Here Be Dragons (opens the original)
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First, a format noteNo podcast today. That’s on purpose. Since March, the Briefing has been an audio episode. I looked at the data, and the listeners just weren’t there: the episodes averaged about two dozen downloads, and August’s got seven in its first month. Meanwhile, you all do read. This month’s dragon deep dive and orc guide each cleared a thousand views.So I’m doing what I’d tell any author to do with numbers like that. Don’t quit. Use that new knowledge and pivot. I’m working with what
Scales, Mates, and Market Rates (opens the original)
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This report is for authors who are drafting, revising, or repositioning a dragon romance and want to know what the current Amazon shelf actually rewards before they lock in a title, a blurb, or an ad budget. It’s for the writer staring at a half-finished manuscript, wondering whether they are aiming at the same thing 54.3% of the dragon books are already doing or a niche so small it can only be reported as a count.This report cannot substitute for your craft, and it will not tell you your book i
Monsterotica Sells Out in Under 4 Minutes. She Planned It in a 20-Tab Spreadsheet. (opens the original)
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Cassie’s origin story starts with a problem every indie author knows. At a general signing, you can’t tell who wants YA fantasy and who wants tentacle smut, and asking can get awkward. So she built an event where everyone knows why they are there.Monster romance readers don’t just want more books. They want spaces built for them, and they’ll show up hard when someone makes one. That gap between what readers want and where authors are looking for them is what I track in the Bestiary Society, with
The Complete Guide to Orc Romance (opens the original)
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Greetings, internet traveler! You may have been finding yourself seeking out “orc romance books,” and you would like some answers.Maybe a friend handed you a paperback with a very green, muscled man on the cover and a knowing smile on their face. Maybe you saw a BookTok video where someone said the word “tusks” in a tone you have never heard used for dental anatomy. Maybe you played enough Skyrim to develop a question about yourself that you are not ready to say out loud yet. Maybe you read one
How Romance Learned to Ride Dragons (opens the original)
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In 1393, Jean d’Arras finished a book for Jean, Duke of Berry, brother of the King of France. It was, functionally, a family history. The duke had recently acquired the lordship of Lusignan, and the book explained his right to it by telling the story of the fortress’s founding mother: a noblewoman named Melusine who built Lusignan, bore ten sons who became kings of Cyprus and Armenia, and asked only one thing of her husband. He was never to look at her on a Saturday.[^1]<a class="image-link imag
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