I built Romintel because I needed it.

I'm Hanna. I read romance, I track romance, and I sit on the unusual side of an industry where analytics and creativity rarely meet in the same person. I've got a degree in economics, statistics, and investment management — and I've been deeply embedded in the romance reader and author community for years.

For most of that time, I watched indie authors make six-figure decisions on what was essentially vibes. Which trope to lead with. How to price a launch. Whether to write into a subgenre that was about to peak. Traditional publishers have had research teams answering these questions for decades. Indie authors had Facebook groups, gut feel, and whatever someone mentioned in a newsletter three months ago.

That gap is what Romintel exists to close. I'm running it from Johannesburg, building it slowly and carefully, and writing every word of it myself. The brand promise is that you're reading something a real person, who genuinely knows this market, made for authors she respects.