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The research roadmap that shows you where your book actually fits—so the right readers can finally find it
The Genre Positioning Research Guide is for the author who’s tired of guessing where their book belongs.
You wrote something you love. But “I think it’s kind of fantasy with romance?” isn’t a market position—it’s a shrug. And shrugs don’t sell books. This free guide walks you through the exact research process I use to pin down where a manuscript genuinely fits in today’s market (not the market from a decade ago, and not the one living in your head).
Across 5 hands-on steps, you’ll: nail down your actual genre and subgenre (not the one you’re hoping for), build a list of accurate, recent comp titles that agents and readers will actually recognize, decode what readers in your category are really craving, run an honest alignment check between your manuscript and your market, and figure out where your specific readers hang out so you’re not shouting into the wrong room.
This isn’t about selling out, chasing trends, or turning your literary baby into a commercial Frankenstein. It’s about understanding the landscape so the people who’ll love your book can find it. Every step comes with fill-in-the-blank worksheets—because “do the research” is useless without a way to actually do it.
No fluff. No guru promises about going viral. Just a repeatable process you can run on this book, your next book, and every book after that.
PS: This is built on years of tracking genre trends and doing market research for authors who were positioned all wrong and didn’t know it. Most positioning problems are fixable—once you know what you’re actually dealing with.
The research roadmap that shows you where your book actually fits—so the right readers can finally find it
The Genre Positioning Research Guide is for the author who’s tired of guessing where their book belongs.
You wrote something you love. But “I think it’s kind of fantasy with romance?” isn’t a market position—it’s a shrug. And shrugs don’t sell books. This free guide walks you through the exact research process I use to pin down where a manuscript genuinely fits in today’s market (not the market from a decade ago, and not the one living in your head).
Across 5 hands-on steps, you’ll: nail down your actual genre and subgenre (not the one you’re hoping for), build a list of accurate, recent comp titles that agents and readers will actually recognize, decode what readers in your category are really craving, run an honest alignment check between your manuscript and your market, and figure out where your specific readers hang out so you’re not shouting into the wrong room.
This isn’t about selling out, chasing trends, or turning your literary baby into a commercial Frankenstein. It’s about understanding the landscape so the people who’ll love your book can find it. Every step comes with fill-in-the-blank worksheets—because “do the research” is useless without a way to actually do it.
No fluff. No guru promises about going viral. Just a repeatable process you can run on this book, your next book, and every book after that.
PS: This is built on years of tracking genre trends and doing market research for authors who were positioned all wrong and didn’t know it. Most positioning problems are fixable—once you know what you’re actually dealing with.
