TrendFyre: Weekly Fictional Book Trends, Tropes & Niches
Good morrow, dear wordsmiths!
Welcome to TrendFyre – your weekly peek at rising and falling trends across the whole fiction world.
boookwyrm here… your resident bookish dragon with a fondness for hoarding analytical book facts as though sparkly treasure. Assisted by my diligent Cybernet Book gnomes, we scurry through digital stacks and riffle through hidden caches of information. Jotting down the fascinating facts readers are talking about, we compile the data into meaningful, actionable gems of verity,
TrendFyre is the velocity-driven tool that helps you Write to Market. We focus on how fast interest in a trend is growing — giving you a forward-looking edge so you can ride the wave early, before the plateau of saturation hits 6–9 months later.
Unlike backward-facing tools like K-lytics (great for historical sales data), TrendFyre is predictive — helping you craft stories readers will want tomorrow, not just what they bought yesterday.
What TrendFyre Is & How to Use It
TrendFyre = “See what’s hot.”
TrendFyre Ignite (Pro) = “Write what’s hot.”
TrendFyre Pivot (Pro) = “Make your book hot.”
TrendFyre Free
Weekly Top 5 Rising + Top 5 Falling — real-time velocity trend tracking for fiction tropes and niches.
TrendFyre Pro (coming soon)
Top 20 Rising + Top 20 Falling, deeper dashboards, historical graphs, custom searches (“Which trend do you want to see? Be specific.”)
TrendFyre Ignite (Pro)(coming soon)
Turn today’s hottest trends into ready-to-write story premises. Get tailored loglines, key beats, comp titles, and velocity explanations.
TrendFyre Pivot (Pro)(coming soon)
Upload your synopsis or excerpt → get instant trope detection + specific tweaks to align with rising trends.
Who Is This For
Long Description: (Click Arrow)
TrendFyre is built for indie authors who want to give their books the best possible shot in today’s fast-moving market — without guessing what readers want next.
Whether you’re a rapid-release powerhouse or a deliberate planner, here’s how it fits different writers:
Perfect for fast, market-smart indie authors
- You release 3–12+ books a year (especially in romance, romantasy, thriller, cozy mystery, or other high-velocity genres).
- You treat writing like a business and love spotting opportunities early.
- You’re already using tools like Publisher Rocket, Vellum, or Ads for Authors — TrendFyre is the missing piece that tells you what to write next and how to tweak it for maximum reader demand.
- You’ll use the weekly velocity updates, custom alerts, Ignite premises, and Pivot feedback to stay ahead of the curve and chain releases that climb the charts.
Great for mid-speed planners who write to market
- You aim for 1–4 books a year and want data-backed confidence before committing months to a project.
- You research tropes and comps seriously, but hate wasting time on ideas that cool off mid-draft.
- TrendFyre helps you validate concepts upfront, generate fresh spins on hot trends, and course-correct revisions so your finished book lands when demand is peaking.
Still valuable for slower or passion-driven writers
- You write 1 book every 1–2 years and care more about story than sales — but you’d love to know your niche is stable (or rising).
- You’ll use the free tier to check long-term trend health, or dip into Pro to spark side ideas or fine-tune a manuscript before release.
TrendFyre is probably NOT for you if:
- You only write literary fiction, memoir, or highly niche genres with little trend movement.
- You actively avoid writing to market and prefer to ignore reader demand entirely.
- You never look at sales data, categories, or comp titles.
Bottom line: If you want your next book to reach more readers — and you’re open to letting smart, real-time data guide (not dictate) your creative choices — TrendFyre is made for you.
Short Description: Indie authors who want more readers — especially:
- Fast writers releasing multiple books a year
- Market-smart planners validating ideas before months of work
- Anyone curious if their trend or niche is growing or cooling
Not for purely literary or anti-market writers (and that’s okay! Write your heart book!)
Velocity vs. Volume – Why It Matters
Volume shows how big a trend is today, but it’s often crowded and very competitive. Velocity shows how fast it’s growing and that’s the early signal for writers to catch the wave before it peaks – your 6–9 month window to ride the wave.
Green line = High Velocity (emerging hit like BookTok revivals). Red line = High Volume but Low Velocity (saturated staple). High velocity (even with lower current volume) is where the opportunity lives — room to stand out before the market gets crowded.
TrendFyre Free
Weekly Top 5 rising and falling fiction trends — open to all, no gates. Bookmark the page or join the list for gentle reminders in your inbox.
TrendFyre Pro
Everything in Free, plus Top 20 rolling trends, historical charts, underserved micro-niche mashups, Ignite premise generator, Pivot manuscript tweaks, saved projects, and more — all to help you write smarter, faster.
Want a full Top 20, historical rolling charts, and ten+ mashups every week? Want the Ignite premise generator and Pivot manuscript tweaks? That’s waiting for you in TrendFyre Pro.
Have a Great Cybernet Books filled day!
—boookwyrm and the Cybernet Book gnomes
TrendFyre Dashboard
Your view of rising and falling fiction trends — with velocity, volume, and real examples.
Request Trend Data
Submit a fiction trend or trope — we’ll pull fresh velocity, volume, and examples for you (usually within a few hours).
Popular examples: romantasy, cozy fantasy, hockey romance, mafia romance, dark academia, enemies to lovers, found family
Results will be emailed to you shortly after submission.
Weekly Top 20 Trends
| Rank | Trend Signal | 7-Day Change | Est. Weekly Units | Example Book(s) | Story Starter |
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Trend Velocity Graph
