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Genre Market Research

Market research on fiction genres, current trends, saturation points, and reader psychology. All files under research/genres/.

Fiction Market Overview 2025–2026 — Industry-wide landscape: sales, pipeline shifts, genre share table, what’s saturated vs. green-lit.
Genre Research Index — Complete catalog of genre files with status, coverage notes, and future research priorities.

Romance & Romantasy — $1 B + / yrc a t e g ory; ro man t a sy b oo m ($ 610M); structural conventions; saturation signals.
Thriller, Crime & Mystery — Second-largest category; psychological thriller maturation; subgenre breakdown.
Horror — Fastest-growing major genre; fem-gore, cosmic, folk, cozy horror; why it’s trending.
Science Fiction & Fantasy — Core fantasy (non-romantasy); hard sci-fi, cyberpunk, epic/dark fantasy.
Climate Fiction — Emerging category; climate thriller, solarpunk, eco-horror; agent demand.
Young Adult & Middle Grade — $16.4B market; fastest-growing demographic; Netflix pipeline.
Historical Fiction — Selective market; 18th/19th century hot; WWII saturated.
LGBTQ+ Fiction — Cross-genre growth; queer romance, fantasy, thriller; fanfic-to-pub pipeline.

Prose Styles & Narrative Craft — POV systems, prose rhythm, voice mechanics.
Experimental & Emerging Narrative Forms — Non-linear, fragmented, AI-assisted writing forms.

The following directories exist in the wiki spec but are currently empty:

learnings/ — Lessons from writing sessions, reader feedback, revision patterns
projects/ — Active fiction projects with outlines, character sheets, chapter briefs
raw/ — Unprocessed research material, bookmarks, scraped content