Back to top

Stop trusting the bestseller lists. Find a human curator. Follow one obscure author you love. Read their newsletter. Let their specific taste guide you. Romance is a genre of emotion; don't let a robot tell you how to feel.

When algorithms curate hearts and everyone has a launch day.

Now? On any given Tuesday, over 1,500 new romance novels hit Amazon’s Kindle Store. That is not hyperbole. That is the torrent.

Read it slowly.

This is the applied to the heart. When there are a million versions of “the one,” does anyone feel chosen? The Algorithm as Matchmaker In the old days, you met a book because a friend handed it to you. Now, you meet a book because “Also Boughts” and “You Might Like” algorithms decide you have a type.

There is a famous opening line about the best of times and the worst of times. But if Charles Dickens were alive today, typing furiously into a Scrivener file, he might rewrite it like this:

But a torrent only has power if you try to drink the whole river.