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Transform Your Romance Novel
into a Selling Sensation

Whether writing to market or trying to find a place in the market for a book already written, romance authors understand the importance of following genre trends. This is where Realm Chef shines as a game-changing romance AI tool! Let’s explore how Realm Chef's groundbreaking features can transform your romance novel manuscripts into marketable assetsand hear from a real-life romance author who is using Chef to help find her way to book marketing HEA!

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Genre-Specific Marketing: Finding ALL the Tropes

To stand out in the romance genre, understanding and utilizing popular trends is crucial. Currently, romance readers are clamoring for tropes & subgenres like:

  • Slow-Burn Romance: stories where characters fall in love gradually (allowing readers to savor every tension-laden moment!)
  • Dark Romance: morally grey MMCs/FMCs, plenty of spice, and intensely adult themes/situations (not for the faint of heart!)
  • Paranormal Romance: shifters, fae, demons, fated mates — magically spicy options abound!

Realm Chef's romance AI technology analyzes your book with romance genre trends in mind. Chef doesn’t just help you keep your series details organized; the automated story bible identifies romance tropes in your manuscript, enabling you to craft a genre-specific marketing strategy that will resonate with reader expectations.

“Perfect Match” Promotion with Romance AI

Once Realm Chef has identified these key romance genre elements — even those you might have forgotten! — it then uses those gems to generate marketing content tailored to your genre’s target audience. For example:

  • Swoonworthy TikTok Scripts: Imagine you've written a scene where your protagonists share a fleeting, yet charged moment that subtly hints at a future romance. Months later, while focusing on other aspects of your book, you may overlook this particular moment; Realm Chef, however, remembers — and transforms it into a series of enticing TikTok scripts, artfully teasing out the chemistry between your characters and drawing in readers hungry for their next slow-burn romance book.
The screen displays romance TikTok script excerpts for marketing a book. Each script is labeled with a chapter number and offers a brief, emotional scene intended for TikTok adaptation, focusing on key romantic moments in the book.
  • Engaging Book Blurbs: Struggling with the dreaded blurb? Tired of reading and rereading your manuscript? Realm Chef revisits your story tirelessly and insightfully, capturing the unique essence of your novel in an engaging blurb that sets it apart in the crowded romance genre. (See this blog post for an in-depth look at Chef’s book blurb magic!)
Screenshot of a digital card containing a draft back cover blurb for the book "Gatekeeper I: The Finding".
  • Character Spotlight: Realm Chef’s automated story bible includes in-depth character profiles, drawn from your manuscript and generated in minutes. When it’s time to market, Chef’s romance AI technology can help you identify intricate popular trope-y details in these profiles and turn them into alluring character spotlight postswhich can be cross-posted across any social media platform!
On the left is a character spotlight post, including hashtags, using that character's arc for book marketing on social media. On the right is that character's profile, detailing his physical appearance, backstory, personality traits, occupation, and key relationships.
  • Hook-y Facebook Ads: Upload your book, go to the Facebook Ad generator, and click generate! In minutes, you’ll have a variety of Facebook ad copy options, all built around the trope-y hooks Chef’s romance AI has identified in your manuscript and designed to catch the attention of your ideal reader — the reader looking for those exact romance tropes.
The screen shows a Facebook Ad Generator interface. On the left are fields to upload a book, and input the book title and author name. On the right are generated ads with sections for headlines, primary texts, and copy texts.
  • Book Consultation Chat: Feeling stuck in a rut with traditional romance marketing strategies? Chat with Chef! With the combined powers of romance AI technology and a deep knowledge of your books, Chef can help you:
    • identify your target audience
    • clarify your author brand
    • brainstorm creative promotional campaigns to enhance reader engagement (exclusive sneak peeks? spicy romance trivia? behind-the-scenes insights? targeted email campaigns? Chef is here for it!)
The screen displays a consultation chat for marketing a book. The left side includes advice on the book's target audience and suggests suitable social media platforms to reach those ideal readers. The right side shows chapter summaries from the book.
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Success Story: Zoey Indiana's Experience with Realm Chef

Zoey Indiana, an indie paranormal romance author, has seen firsthand how Realm Chef’s romance AI technology can streamline the marketing process for romance books. Here’s a snippet from a recent interview:

So for me, anybody who will willingly talk to me for hours about my books is already really fun and exciting. But when I'm trying to do marketing and I'm super frustrated because I just don't want to do this one more time—I don't want to stare at a blank page and think, what am I going to make a TikTok about? Or what am I going to write a story about? It doesn't matter what the context is, because the blank page is the most intimidating thing you could ever look at. And I can just say: “Chef, this is what I need.” And Chef replies: “Okay, here.” And I can say, “Okay, well, that was one; maybe give me ten examples.” And Chef pops out ten! No complaint.
And I find myself thinking, “This is a great book. Who wrote this book? Oh, right: ME! But I really like this book!” This is great because sometimes when you work with your own book over and over and over, you start to lose part of the passion of it, especially when you're trying to market and you have to write your stupid blurb. The blurb—everyone hates writing the blurb. But sometimes Chef rephrases things in a way where I get really excited about it, and I'm thinking, “Oh, this is really intriguing. Now I want to read it.” And then I realize: “I can market with this. This is FUN.”

Your Journey to "HEA" with Realm Chef

Any romance author knows: romance book marketing is all about the tropes, the hooks, and satisfying reader expectations. Realm Chef offers an advantage by using its customized romance AI technology to:

  • identify those tropes in your manuscript
  • use those tropes to generate hooks
  • tailor ALL your marketing efforts towards reaching — and engaging — your ideal reader!

Join the community of successful authors like Zoey Indiana who have leveraged Realm Chef’s romance AI to find their book marketing HEA. With Realm Chef, the journey from manuscript to market becomes not just manageable, but enjoyable!

Try Realm Chef Today

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