Wednesday 7 October 2026Coral Wire · today’s wire
PlotProse, Perfect Year, TropeSmith, BookAdPack, Authors Starport and Coral Wire. Each stands on its own. Together they cover an author’s whole commercial year.
PlotProseThe hub
Perfect YearDone-for-you
TropeSmithMarket intelligence
BookAdPackLaunch kits
Authors StarportCraft toolsAlso from the group: Author Services and Micro Drama Studio.
Eighteen romance lanes, ranked by their share of every tracked reader mention, with the change in percentage points against the eight weeks before. Refreshed weekly; the date above is the date of the data.
Harvested straight from the storefront and the capability map rather than typed into a slide. If something a client depends on goes down, our own map says so first.
Complete, ready-to-publish manuscript packages across the romance sub-genres.
Tested prompt libraries and creation kits, distilled from the teaching vault.
Structured outlines built on live trope-demand data.
Workshops, live writes, genre intensives and one-to-one sessions.
Manuscripts taken to beta-reader standard.
Genre lanes covered: Skip-the-Draft 108 · Author Training 42 · AI Writing 32 · All Outlines 19 · Contemporary Romance 13 · Plotprose's AI Creation Kits 11 · Dark Romance 9 · Romantic Comedy 8 · AI Creation Kits 8 · Paranormal Romance 6.
Catalogue and capability figures harvested 05 October 2026.
That is the whole idea. Nothing here runs on guesswork or recycled advice.
Publisher feeds, AI labs, retail signals, reader communities and live court dockets, pulled and scored twice every day.
Refreshed against live retail data rather than last year’s advice. The public cut is the 2026 Romance Demand Report: 378 romance BookTok hashtags analysed, and the five tropes where reader demand outruns the published supply by up to 125 to 1.
The ads an author runs, the year they plan, the books they decide to write next.
Anything that cannot be proven is marked unproven and does not count.
We build AI tools for authors, and we’re the first to say the technology has been oversold to writers. So we’re specific about what we do.
We don’t sell “write your book for you.” The products do the commercial work around the writing: research, advertising creative, scheduling, planning. The author spends their hours on the pages.
Disclosure is the default. Coral Wire is presented by an AI host and says so on every edition. Generated creative is labelled where the platform supports it and wherever a reader would reasonably want to know.
The author owns the work. Manuscripts, brand assets and reader lists belong to the author, and they leave with them.
This is a live argument in the writing community. We’d rather be on the record than quietly on either side of it.