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Elle Kennedy owns the college sports romance conversation in AI answers, while newer series still have room to expand.

Here is how firmly your books dominate core hockey romance prompts, and where emerging competitors are starting to split reader attention.

Elle Kennedy's baseline score
71/100
Good

Elle Kennedy holds commanding visibility across college sports romance, where AI assistants consistently treat her catalog as the gold standard. While her hockey backlist earns automatic mentions, newer releases and contemporary standalone novels face increasing competition from recent BookTok breakouts.

What we see
  • AI assistants treat The Deal as the default reference point for college hockey and fake-dating fiction.
  • Recommendations drop noticeably when prompts broaden to coastal romance or general romantic comedies, where authors like Elsie Silver and Emily Henry dominate.
  • Online book communities on Reddit and BookTok regularly cite her Briar U books as the gold standard that inspired newer sports romance series.
  • Search-grounded models highlight news of her Amazon Prime Video adaptation as proof of category leadership.
Business goals Elle Kennedy is likely trying to hit
  • Convert long-time readers of the Off-Campus series into buyers for Campus Diaries and new releases
  • Expand direct-to-consumer sales for signed special editions, box sets, and merchandise
  • Build reader anticipation and newsletter signups ahead of the Prime Video Off-Campus series release