Romance is the largest fiction category on every major retail shelf, which makes the upside obvious — and the noise brutal. A premise that sounds fresh to you can already be sitting on a shelf with 30,000 KU lookalikes, or it can be aimed at a sub-niche where readers are waiting.
AuthorPilot weights Market Fit, Originality, Audience Fit, and Genre Competition specifically for romance premising: trope density, sub-niche demand (dark romance, romantasy, second-chance, small-town), heat-level expectations, and comp overlap. The output is one weighted 0–100 score plus the rewrites that move it.
Whether you write contemporary, historical, romantasy, or romantasy-adjacent, you get the same honest read: is this one strong enough to win against the comps in its lane, and how do you sharpen the hook before publishing.