More weird findings via the Amazon algorithms.
There are a fair number of books that base a thriller plot on something from history. The category lists over 1,500, but there's an unknown amount of crossover with actual Historical Fiction (which also crosses mysteriously with Alternate History and Historical Romance.)
There's some strange code words I've been seeing lately across various genres of adventure story. "Clean" is one. "Language" is another. Apparently it is important enough to some people to at least advertise their books as not crossing certain lines of decorum. Whether this matters to the readers, I do not know.
Another inevitable is the biblical. A substantial number of amateurs dabbling in history do so to dabble in, well, biblical history. The "tells" here are subtler, as you don't even have to go to Dan Brown flirting with the Big Bad Church to put any number of powerful names with Christian associations in your title.
It usually takes a reading of the synopsis, but I've found between title and cover image a mere paragraph into the blurb it becomes quite clear what you are in for. Generally proving the truth of Jesus. Apparently Siddhārtha Gautama doesn't get as many fans.
Well, the main metric I have now for mine is page reads via the Kindle Unlimited/Owners Limited Library programs. Either one person has been reading a couple of chapters every night and is up to the meeting in Padua, or eighty-five people looked at page one and stopped there. Or any point in between. The Kindle measure is of course taken from their own hidden algorithm and it is difficult to place it exactly in terms of page/word count. They also changed their rules recently, otherwise I'd be getting full cover price already (too many people had been gaming the system with novellas.)
Anyhow, there's good reason I'm working so hard on making it so the series contains more than one book.
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