Cozy Royalties gives you everything you need to break into this profitable subgenre.
The cozy mystery word search puzzle book is a hybrid format: a full mystery story with themed puzzles after each chapter. Readers solve the puzzles and the mystery side by side, binge entire series in a weekend, and come back for the next book.
Get Cozy RoyaltiesI've been publishing into the cozy mystery word search puzzle book sub-niche for a while now, and it's quietly become one of the most reliable royalty streams in my catalog.
It's a hybrid format: a full cozy mystery story with themed puzzles after every chapter. Readers solve the puzzles and the mystery together. They binge entire series in a weekend, leave 5-star reviews, and pre-order Book 2 before you've finished writing it.
The format isn't a fad. Simon & Schuster's Cranberry Creek Word Search Mystery series is a USA TODAY bestseller in exactly this format, which is proof the appetite is mainstream and growing. And the indie shelf? Still wide open. Plenty of room for new authors to publish in, build a series, and earn.
Demand is proven, the format is growing in popularity, and competition is still very low.
Recent releases in this new format are pulling in serious money every month on Amazon.
Earnings shown are estimated monthly figures for recent releases in this niche and are not a guarantee of your results.
Everything you need to publish into this niche, all in one place.
A complete step-by-step course with video lessons, the walkthrough guide, my exact prompts, and a special niche report. Plus the Cozy Clues plugin, which writes your book with you.
Designed specifically for Cozy Mystery puzzle books, this tool creates every puzzle, answer key, and the full Decode the Killer reveal page.
Never written a mystery? You don't have to do it alone. Cozy Clues works inside Claude or ChatGPT and walks you through every step of the course.
Prefer to write by hand? Every step also comes with my exact prompt.
Already write cozy mystery? This is additive.
Cozy Royalties isn't asking you to abandon your existing series. The hybrid format slots into the catalog you already have. It's a second income stream that multiplies the cozy work you're already doing.
Cozy mystery readers are willing to pay more for the added experience of a story + puzzle book. One cozy puzzle book could easily outsell all your existing cozies, without competing with them.
You don't have to pick between cozy mystery and cozy mystery puzzle books. You can publish both and maximize your income!
The moment you order, you get instant access to the full course, the Cozy Clues plugin and the Puzzle Book Creator tool. One payment, lifetime access, every future update included.
Everything you need to publish into this niche, all in one place.
Watch over my shoulder as I create a cozy mystery puzzle book. Then download the walkthrough guide and create your own!
Cozy Clues writes your book with you in Claude or ChatGPT, step by step. Prefer to do it yourself? You also get all of my prompts. Your story, written in a fraction of the time.
Worth the price of the course on its own. Gain access to the exact tool I use to generate every chapter puzzle, every answer key, and the full Decode the Killer reveal page in one click!
One book. Priced at $12.99 paperback, just under the bestseller in this format. Selling 250 copies a month.
After printing costs, you keep roughly $5.00 per sale.
Now add a Kindle edition at $4.99. That's another stream of revenue plus a new email subscriber every time someone downloads the printable content.
Now add Book 2. Book 3. Book 4.
One genre. One series. One method.
That's the math. It's not magic. It's just what happens when you give readers something they can't get from a regular cozy mystery.
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