The Coral Hart Group
SHARE OF ROMANCE READER CONVERSATION · 8 WEEKS TO 13 JUL 2026
PARANORMAL4.87%▲ +0.31ppMM ROMANCE4.62%▲ +1.63ppSMALL TOWN4.57%▼ 1.27ppCONTEMPORARY4.28%▼ 0.52ppBI ROMANCE3.98%▲ +0.15ppDARK ROMANCE3.72%▲ +0.18ppMAFIA3.37%▼ 0.28ppWORKPLACE3.06%▲ +0.33ppPOLYAMORY2.98%▲ +0.72ppCLEAN & WHOLESOME2.97%▲ +0.46ppWESTERN2.94%▲ +0.17ppREGENCY2.92%▲ +0.11ppSCI-FI ROMANCE2.71%▲ +0.34ppACTION & ADVENTURE2.62%▲ +0.66ppSECOND CHANCE2.59%▲ +0.20ppBLACK & AFRICAN AMERICAN2.44%▲ +0.93ppROMANTIC SUSPENSE2.18%▼ 0.66ppALPHA MALE2.11%▼ 0.16pp
18 romance lanes · 170,823 tracked reader mentions · share of conversation, change in percentage points · how we measure this
The Coral Hart Group

We build the tools indie authors run their business on.

Six companies on one data spine — market intelligence, launch creative, year-long planning, craft tooling and a daily newsroom. Founded and led by Coral Hart.

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As covered byThe New York TimesNPRThe AtlanticAll coverage, including the critics →
2,400authors served
216products live
1,700+capabilities, proven daily
89sources, scored twice a day
The suite

Six companies, one spine

Each stands on its own. Together they cover an author’s whole commercial year — research it, plan it, write it, launch it, sell it.

The hub

Training, outlines and the storefront. Where an author starts.

  • Live author training
  • Pre-made romance outlines
  • Complete manuscript packages
  • Author reports
plotprose.com →
Done-for-you

An author’s whole publishing year, planned and run for them.

  • Real KDP sales, pulled daily
  • Catalogue refresh + review monitoring
  • Promo matching
  • Newsletters drafted in the author’s own voice
  • Daily client alerts
perfectyearhq.com →
Market intelligence

What readers are actually buying, at trope level.

  • Live trope demand data
  • BookTok signal, scraped hourly
  • Per-lane market maps
  • Client-book refresh
  • Trope Pulse — the weekly opportunity brief
tropesmith.com →
Launch kits

A complete, on-brand advertising pack for a book — same day.

  • Ad copy + ad images
  • Scene videos
  • Amazon A+ content
  • Blurb rewrite
  • Promo calendar
  • Competitor ad intelligence
  • Reader panel report
  • Viral hook packs
bookadpack.com →
Craft tools

Line editing and manuscript tooling for working novelists.

  • Line editing
  • Manuscript analysis
  • Continuity checking
authorsstarport.com →
The newsroom

AI news for authors, daily. Free, and published every day.

  • 89 sources, scored twice daily
  • The Coral Index
  • Live court-docket tracking
  • Weekly edition
coralwire.ai →
Shipped

What we’ve launched

216 products live across the group, and 1,700+ capabilities re-proven every day — if something a client depends on goes down, our own map says so first.

106 live

Skip-the-Draft manuscripts

Complete, ready-to-publish manuscript packages across the romance sub-genres.

33 live

AI writing kits & prompt vaults

Tested prompt libraries and creation kits, distilled from the teaching vault.

19 live

Pre-made romance outlines

Structured outlines built on live trope-demand data.

16 live

Live author training

Workshops, live writes, genre intensives and one-to-one sessions.

5 live

Beta Reader Ready

Manuscripts taken to beta-reader standard.

A few of them

Genre lanes covered

Catalogue and capability figures harvested 28 August 2026.

The newsroom

Coral Wire

Our daily read on the AI story as it actually lands on authors. 89 sources, reader communities and live court dockets, scored twice a day. Free, every day.

On the record

Writing

Where we put our arguments about AI, disclosure and the business of publishing.

Coverage

In the conversation

We’re at the centre of a real argument about AI and books, and we’d rather point at all of it than curate the flattering half. The coverage below includes the pieces that think we’re wrong.

The New York Times
The New Fabio Is Claude
NPR · 1A
What AI-Authored Books Mean for the Publishing Industry
The Atlantic
Is “Daggermouth” the First Bestselling AI Novel?
Indie Author Magazine
What’s New with AI in 2026 for Indie Authors
The New York Times · Hard Fork
‘Something Big Is Happening’ + A.I. Rocks the Romance Novel Industry
Brave New Bookshelf
Episode 64 — Beyond the New York Times Headlines
Brave New Bookshelf
Episode 49 — The Art and Science of Writing with AI
Brave New Bookshelf
Episode 74 — Building an AI Operating System for Authors
Writing With AI Podcast
Making Six Figures from 200 Books a Year Using AI
PublishDrive
The Art and Science of Writing with AI with Coral Hart
Publishing Confidential
Romance, AI, and The New York Times
The Invisible Pen
The NYT Called Claude the New Fabio — Here’s What They Got Wrong
GizmodoCritical
For Some Reason, Someone Who Generates AI Slop Books Has Unmasked Herself
FuturismCritical
“Novelist” Boasts That Using AI She Can Churn Out a New Book in 45 Minutes
CybernewsCritical
“Novelist” brags she can generate a new book in 45 minutes but hides behind 21 pen names
AftermathCritical
No, AI Written Romance Novels Are Not Inevitable
Halifax ExaminerCritical
A romance writer is using AI to pump out 200 novels a year — but is it just a new form of an old grift?
The Kill ZoneCritical
AI and Romance?
The Cornell Daily SunCritical
HATER FRIDAY | Mass-Generating Literary Slop: AI-Written Books
Chuck Wendig · TerriblemindsCritical
Writers Who Use AI Are Not Real Writers
Louise BuckleyCritical
Why I’m Against Authors Using AI to Write Their Books
Audiobook CaféCritical
AI Writing in Romance Novels
Good GirlsCritical
Coral Hart, 200 AI Romance Books, and Why We’re Still Safe from Robot Smut
Leadership

Who leads it

Coral Hart, founder

Coral Hart

Founder

Coral Hart spent fifteen years learning publishing the hard way — editor, cover designer, ghostwriter, indie publisher — before writing ninety-six books the long way and two hundred and sixteen after.

The group grew out of what she learned doing it: the research, the advertising, the planning and the scheduling, turned into software other authors could run. She has been profiled by The New York Times and The Atlantic, appeared on The Daily, and taken the argument straight to the writing community — including the parts of it that think she is wrong. That is deliberate. This industry is being decided in public.

Why the group exists — in Coral’s own words. Fifteen seconds. The captions are on screen, so it plays fine muted — turn the sound up for her voice.Film generated in-house · Coral Hart Group