Four free tools for romance authors. The Trope-Stack Generator builds a stack from a built-in list of 30 tropes, weighting its picks by each trope’s count of demand signals and its share tagged underserved or novel, from TropeSmith’s October 7, 2026 count. The title, pen-name and character-name tools are yours to spin as often as you like.
Readers don’t buy one trope — they buy a stack. This builds one from a built-in list of 30 tropes, weighting its picks by each trope’s count of demand signals and its share tagged underserved or novel, from TropeSmith’s October 7, 2026 count.
Eight title directions at a time. Pick a tone; regenerate freely.
A pen name should match the shelf you’re writing to. Pick a style.
Names that fit the role, the era and the vibe.
Not sure which trope to build your book around? Start with our author’s library — every major romance trope, how to write it, and what readers are searching for.
Popular guides: Enemies to lovers · Marriage of convenience · Forced proximity · Friends to lovers · Second chance · Dark romance
Twenty free tools for romance authors on PlotProse, plus the free tools on our sister sites. No account, no card, no trial clock.
Trope stacks, book titles, pen names and character names on a single page — if you are spinning several at once, start here.
Readers buy a stack, not one trope. Builds a stack for your subgenre, heat level and lead energy from a built-in list of 30 tropes, weighting its picks by each trope’s count of demand signals and its share tagged underserved or novel, from TropeSmith’s October 7, 2026 count.
Eight title directions at a time, by subgenre and tone. Regenerate as often as you like.
A pen name should match the shelf you write to. Pick a style and spin.
Names that fit the role, the era and the vibe — leads and supporting cast.
Antagonist names for mafia, fae, paranormal and dark romance.
Pick a hero archetype — grumpy, protective, possessive, golden retriever or morally grey — then an era.
Book names by subgenre instead of tone — contemporary, romantasy, dark, historical or small-town.
Romantasy names for both species, sorted by light Seelie or dark Unseelie court.
Norse-inspired first names plus a byname, for hero, heroine or villain.
Every Amazon category any book currently ranks in — the fastest way to see where a comp is really shelved.
Twenty romance tropes, how to write them, and their demand-signal counts.
The ranked reader-demand picture for romance in 2026, built from demand signals in reader reviews and posts.
Demand signals by trope, week by week.
A free report on the romance tropes readers are searching for.
A workbench for testing a romance hook against what readers actually respond to.
A free AI assistant that answers from Coral Hart’s teaching library and knows the whole PlotProse catalog.
Pick your subgenre and get the demand-signal picture for your lane: the top tropes across romance, what your lane’s bestsellers carry, and the tropes with demand signals that those bestsellers rarely carry.
A working outline template with the beats in the order romance readers expect.
Wound, want, need, arc and voice — the fields romance leads actually need.
Demand signals by trope, free to read.
The demand side of the market: demand signals by lane, free to read.
Check which Amazon categories a book ranks in, on the TropeSmith side of the estate.
Nine craft measurements on your finished manuscript, free. The objective read before you pay an editor.
Three severity-ranked findings on your opening 5,000 words, each quoted from your own prose. Free.
Four free browser games for authors on a coffee break. No account, no cost.
The trope, demand and category tools read the same corpus. TropeSmith, our sister company, counted 2,591,893 demand signals on October 7, 2026: specific things readers asked for or praised in reviews, comments and posts. 39% of them (1,010,088) are tagged underserved or novel by its classifier, which reads each signal on its own and is never shown what is on the shelf, so treat the tag as a pointer to check comp titles, not proof that no book answers it. 2,672 tropes in its taxonomy appear as a primary trope tag on at least one demand signal.
Counted from our own database on October 7, 2026: 115,265 trope-tagged titles, in 145 demand lanes across seven genres.
The long-form read on all of it is the 2026 Romance Demand Report — free, no signup.
A generator gives you options. TropeSmith shows how your exact stack compares with demand signals and with what the lane’s bestsellers carry, with comps and cover direction.
See your book’s demand Map →Short, practical notes from Coral on writing commercial fiction that sells.
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