Forbidden Love demand jumped: romance ARC trends for the week of October 30, 2026

Another week of reader requests is in the books. Here's what romance readers went after between October 23 and October 30, 2026.

Forbidden Love led the week: 11 reader requests versus 4 the week before. One week is a small sample, so read this as a hint rather than a trend; the 90-day numbers below are the steadier signal.

This week in numbers

38 reader requests came in across 4 newly launched campaigns, 34 of them accepted and 21 reviews posted, with reviews averaging 4.1/5. 75 ARCs are open right now.

Where readers applied

Spice check

Where the requests landed by spice level over the last 90 days:

Gaps in the catalog

Singledad, Canada, Magicalrealism drew 57 requests over the last 90 days with nothing currently open. If you can deliver one of these tropes, a new campaign starts with an audience that already asked for it and no competing listings to split attention with.

Currently accepting readers

• Hellebore Fields: A Dark Academia Hockey Romance by Rivkah Plume
• His Little Witness by Kindra Cress
• Past The Whistle by Lorraine H

Data nerds and debut authors alike, we'll be back next Friday with fresh numbers.

About the data: every figure above comes from reader activity on Pen Pinery (3028 reader requests all time). It reflects our reader base, which skews toward romance readers actively hunting ARCs, not the book market as a whole.

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Authors: the numbers above are real reader demand. Launch your ARC to put your book in front of these readers. See how it works.