Reader analytics for authors
Whether you're confirming your instincts, mapping out a launch, or still shaping the concept, reader data can help.
Answer a few questions about your book and get a full breakdown of the readers most likely to love it (demographics, genres, tones, and more) benchmarked against everyday readers, so you can see exactly where your book over-indexes and where it under-indexes.
Estimates put global book publishing at somewhere between 2.2 and 4 million new titles a year. In the U.S. alone, that number is roughly 15 times what it was two decades ago, and it's still climbing.
With this many books on the market, how will readers discover yours?
Finding them starts with knowing them. Not a rough sense of who reads fantasy, or murder mystery. The specifics. Their age, where they live, the tones they seek out, the characters they want to spend time with, the things they'd rather avoid.
It's knowing who your readers actually are, and what makes them choose one book over another.
How it works
Answer 30+ multi-choice questions about your book's genre, tone, setting, characters, and themes, so we can build a detailed picture of what you've written.
We index your book's profile against the verified preferences of real readers who've told us what they want to read next. No algorithmic guesses, no broad market estimates. Just the readers who've asked for a book like yours.
In just 3–4 minutes, your data is pulled, your charts are built, and the explanation for every section is generated automatically.
Where the data comes from
The data comes from our book discovery platform, where real readers set their preferences to get personalised recommendations, voluntarily sharing their tastes, their identities and what they want from their next read. That same preference data is what your report is built from.
Self-reported and shared with consent. Responses are anonymised and aggregated before they reach your report, so individual readers are never identified in your results.
WHat you get
This isn't a static PDF you skim once and file away. It's a digital report that's ready to work with you, delivered in 3–4 minutes.
Look up unfamiliar terms without losing your place.
Skip the scroll, jump straight to the section you need.
Send the whole report to your editor, designer or agent.
Perfect for dropping straight into a pitch deck or ad brief.
See the exact number, so you're never just guessing.
Our ethical, fairness-aware approach to book discovery and reader analytics (built on real reader preferences, not popularity) earned an 'Excellent' rating in the 2025 IRCAI Global Top 100, a UNESCO-affiliated global index for AI advancing the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
Learn more about the index →WHEN TO USE THE REPORT
CONCEPT
Run a report on two competing series concepts and understand your potential audiences - one skewing younger with a keen interest in found-family dynamics, the other heavily rural with a preference for slower pacing. Informed decisionmaking, before the manuscript even exists
WRITING
A report shows exactly how your readers feel about a subplot before you commit to it, or how tolerant they are of graphic violence compared to the genre average. Access a different perspective before the scene is locked into the plot.
PRE-LAUNCH
See that your readers respond far more to "intriguing" and "profound" tones than "lighthearted" ones, giving you a clear steer on which lines lead your blurb and ad spend.
POST-LAUNCH
A report run months after launch can surface an age bracket or region your original campaigns never touched, but where affinity runs unusually high.
What’s In the Report
Every category compares your readers against all readers. The tallest bar shows your biggest segment, but the widest gap between the two matters more. That's where your readers over-index the norm (your highest-affinity group) and the clearest signal of who to focus on.
See these charts in a sample report →Pricing
$259/report
Refundable within 7 days. All we ask is a quick video call so we can learn from your experience. See the full policy.
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About us
Born from a commitment to improving diversity and representation in entertainment, we help authors find readers who love their stories.
We combine personalized content discovery with actionable audience insight, helping to bridge the gap between creators and their audiences.
Narrative Muse is built by an independent team of publishing and screen executives, producers, an ex-bookseller, authors and filmmakers.
