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AuthorDive A MooreMetrics tool

Fiction author recommendations

Find authors you'll devour.

12,378 fiction authors profiled on 14 dimensions, from romance and horror to humor and crime. Describe the writer you are looking for, or start from authors you already love.

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Authors
12,378
Dimensions
14
Scale
−4 to +4

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Two ways to find your next author

Set the dimensions that matter to you and switch off the rest. Zero is the average author; move toward either end to ask for more or less of a trait.

How widely read and talked about the author is.

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From −4, Obscure, to +4, Bestseller. Zero is the average author.

How central love stories are to the work.

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From −4, No romance, to +4, Romance. Zero is the average author.

The future, space, and technology that does not exist yet.

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From −4, No sci-fi, to +4, Sci-fi. Zero is the average author.

Magic, monsters, and invented worlds.

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From −4, No fantasy, to +4, Fantasy. Zero is the average author.

Fear, dread, and the macabre.

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From −4, Not scary, to +4, Horror. Zero is the average author.

Thrills, chases, and high stakes.

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From −4, Quiet, to +4, Action-packed. Zero is the average author.

Detectives, whodunits, and the underworld.

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From −4, No crime, to +4, Mystery. Zero is the average author.

How funny the writing tries to be.

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From −4, Serious, to +4, Comic. Zero is the average author.

How far back the author's heyday sits, and how canonical the work is.

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From −4, Contemporary, to +4, Classic. Zero is the average author.

Whether the books are written for or safe for young readers.

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From −4, Adults only, to +4, For children. Zero is the average author.

How central questions of identity are to the work.

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From −4, Less, to +4, More. Zero is the average author.

How prominently U.S. minority communities and their stories feature.

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From −4, Less, to +4, More. Zero is the average author.

Migration, diaspora, and lives between cultures.

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From −4, Less, to +4, More. Zero is the average author.

How much animals feature as characters or subjects.

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From −4, Less, to +4, More. Zero is the average author.

How it works

Every author measured the same way

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    Each author is profiled

    Every one of the 12,378 authors was rated on a long list of questions about their genres, themes, and readership.

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    14 dimensions

    A psychometric model condenses those ratings into 14 dimensions, each scaled from −4 to +4 around the average author. The sliders on this page set targets on those same scales.

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    Two ways to match

    Describe what you want finds the authors whose profile sits closest to your settings. Start from authors you like finds the writers whose full rating profile correlates most strongly with the ones you named.

The data behind AuthorDive is available through the MooreMetrics API.