Trope-Stack Generator
Readers don’t buy one trope — they buy a stack. This builds one weighted toward underserved demand from 113,000+ live reader requests.
SubgenreContemporaryHeatOpen doorLead energyGrumpy / Sunshine
Build my stack →Four free tools for romance authors. The Trope-Stack Generator is fed by our live reader-demand engine — it steers you toward stacks readers actually want but aren’t getting. 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 weighted toward underserved demand from 113,000+ live reader requests.
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 weighted stack for your subgenre, heat level and lead energy — biased toward what readers ask for and the shelf under-delivers.
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 scored on live reader demand — 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.
Every major romance trope, how to write it, and what live reader demand says about it.
The ranked reader-demand picture for romance in 2026, built from underserved and novel reader asks.
The weekly demand pulse — which romance tropes are rising and which are cooling.
Demand versus supply, trope by trope, with the gaps called out.
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 catalogue.
Pick your subgenre and get the live demand picture: reader asks, what your lane’s bestsellers deliver, and the gaps between.
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.
What is moving in romance reader demand this week, free to read.
The demand side of the market: what readers keep asking for that nobody is writing.
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. Counted from our own database on 21 August 2026: 1,827,191 demand signals ingested, of which 724,799 are reader requests classed underserved or novel; 4,422 distinct tropes tracked across 11,596 trope-tagged titles, in 138 romance demand lanes, against a registry of 231,965 titles. We update these when we re-count; we do not round them up.
The long-form read on all of it is the 2026 Romance Demand Report — free, no signup.
A generator gives you options. Tropesmith tells you which one readers are actually begging for — your exact stack scored on live demand vs supply, 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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