Romantasy

Updated Trends in Reading Audiences

Posted on by Brenda Poulos
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It turns out that some of the “least-selling” books in 2024 were in the Romantasy category.

My husband often says I am always “a day late and a dollar short.” He was right in this case, I guess, because I had decided to follow the trend from 2023 and wrote my book, Remember Me: a Sonnet for Marigold, in 2024. It has performed below my expectations. This was partly because I published under the pen name, Mia Michaels, which was unknown to many of my readers. 

Surveyors say Limited Editions of premium books, such as J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy and Melania Trump’s, Melania are the biggest trends for 2025.

Following that, is a surge in Religious Books and in books about AI and its possible effects on the world.

So what am I doing? I’m going back to what I do best, Christian Fiction.

 What Do Readers Want in 2024???

Posted on by Brenda Poulos

If you are an author that writes according to the trends of the reading audience, I suggest looking back at what the most popular trends were in 2023 and take your writing in one of those directions.

Remember, however, popularity of genres change from year to year—even season to season.

So you may want to stick with your current genre or try your hand at one of these rising stars:

Romance was #1, again! (No surprise). However, a new kind of romance has taken readers by storm in the last year or so. It is called Romantasy (Adult Romance Fantasy). Other new twists were Sports Romance and Dark Romance.

Also, rising to popularity are stories about robots and other AI-related.

Crime fiction always gets lots of readers, but a new twist are those whose targets are authors. Yikes! (An upcoming movie soon to be on the big screen—if you are interested— is on this very subject).

I don’t want to forget to mention memoirs, satires, and short story collections.

Finally, this one might surprise you. There seems to be a resurgence of re-reading favorite books.