What Genre is Your Book?
This report tells you!
Upload your manuscript. Get back a customized report that tells you exactly where your book lives, which readers are already looking for it, and which shelves would bury you.
Your whole book, read start to finish. Not a template. Not a quiz.
$25 per book · Any genre · No subscription · Ready in an hour
THE PROBLEM
You’ve frozen on this question before
Maybe a cover designer asked. Maybe it was KDP, in a dropdown, at eleven at night.
And you couldn’t answer—not because you don’t know your book, but because you know it too well. It’s a romance, but there’s a mystery. It’s fantasy, but it’s cozy. It’s got dragons and it isn’t romantasy.
So you picked something broad and safe.
That one decision sits upstream of everything else. Your cover has to promise a specific reading experience. Your blurb has to use the words a specific reader scans for. Your ads have to find people already buying books like yours. Your comps have to be books selling to your readers—and you can’t find comps until you know your shelf.
Every marketing decision you’re about to make depends on an answer you don’t have yet.
WHAT YOU GET
Four parts, built from one deep read
Part One — Your Book. You wrote ninety thousand words and still can't say what it's about without rambling. This hands you the language—your themes, your tropes, and the exact moments your readers will fall for.
Part Two — Your Genre Road Map. A genre answer you can actually defend, with the reasoning attached.
Part Three — Your Categories & Comps. "Find your readers" is useless advice without a how. This is the how: the authors already selling to your exact reader, and the shelves those readers browse.
Part Four — Your Blurbs. Because you'd rather write another whole book than write the blurb. Three of them ready to paste.
BUILT FOR GENRE FICTION
It won’t shove your book somewhere it doesn’t belong
Romance — One central love story and a happy ending you're not allowed to skip. The relationship is the plot, not the subplot. If you could pull the romance out and still have a book, you're not writing romance.
Mystery — Something happened, and the reader gets to work it out alongside somebody clever. The puzzle is the engine. The pleasure is in the figuring, which is why the ending has to be fair.
Fantasy — A world that runs on rules ours doesn't, and rules is the operative word. Magic that costs nothing isn't magic, it's convenience—and readers can feel the difference from a mile off.
Science fiction — The what-if taken seriously. Something is possible here that isn't possible now, and the story is what people become because of it.
Horror — Dread, sustained. Not a scary moment or two—a book that keeps the lights low and doesn't let you relax. The fear is the point, not the seasoning.
(This report is NOT for non-fiction, memoir, poetry and literary fiction.)
CHECK IT OUT
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What Authors Are Saying
"I will never launch another book without using The Genre Road Map Report."
"I came away understanding books I wrote better than I did before I ran the reports."
"I used it with two very different books and pen names. It didn't simply tell me 'this is your genre'—it helped me understand the reader promise behind it."
"It's a great place for authors to start when they're working through the marketing angle."
"This is a new-to-me genre and I wasn't sure I was 'doing it right.' Now I know I'm heading in the right direction and kind of carving my own little spot."
your genre road map
One Book
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YOUR 25+ PAGE REPORT INCLUDES:
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Your genre and subgenre, named exactly
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Three Amazon categories to claim
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Your tropes—the ones readers search for
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What makes your book stand out
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Three ready-to-paste blurbs
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And much more!
FAQ
Usually under an hour. You’ll get an email the moment you upload confirming it’s running, and a second one with your report attached when it’s done.
.docx, .doc, or .txt—up to 150,000 words, which covers novellas through epic fantasy. PDFs aren’t supported; if that’s all you have, save it out as a Word file or paste it into a plain text file first.
Neither. A partial works. However, the more you send, the sharper the report.
Yes, it uses AI. But don’t worry. Your manuscript is never used to train any AI model, and I don’t keep a copy of it.
Hi! I'm Ella!
(she/her)
I’m an author and author coach.
After years of coaching other writers, I published my first fiction book in January 2020. In less than two years I made $100,000, while spending minimal effort on marketing.
Now I help other creative people with their writing, marketing, and mindset so they can make money with their stories.
