Case studies
Every case study and Notebook entry in one place, with the sources behind each one.
- Case studies
- Each case study takes one piece of advice romance writers get, checks it by hand, and says where the evidence runs out.
- Notebook entries
- Things I learned while checking. Smaller, looser, sometimes opinion.
- AmazonCS-002I read eight Amazon algorithm guides. Here are two top factors, and the short list Amazon actually publishesCase study · September 28, 2026What Amazon tells authors in its own words, what "we modeled it" really means, and the test model I'm building instead.
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- ReadersCS-001Last on Goodreads, first on AO3 for its size: what fan fiction saw in Heated RivalryCase study · September 28, 2026Three adapted romances, two ways of counting readers, and a theory about books that leave room.
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- BookTokNB-001New to BookTok? Here's what 325,610 posts could, and couldn't, tell meNotebook · StoryA beginner's guide to BookTok, for anyone who doesn't yet know what they don't know.
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- GoodreadsNB-002Goodreads only remembers today. Here's how I map another author's journey.Notebook · GuideHow to map an author's journey on Goodreads, so you can learn from the authors a few years ahead of you.
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