see the consequences of their decisions, and most of all see them as people. Humor and humanity are incredibly underrated tools for these: a light touch to get the reader to keep going up to and through the horrific events, and connect them more to the characters.

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hates grimdark nihilist shit, I take the scene/event into context with everything else around it, again referring back to my guideline. While the horror can be purposeless, especially in cosmic or monster horror, the way characters react to it has to have purpose. I have to see them change or grow,

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anyone else. It feels borderline dehumanizing to fixate on breaking down someone's physical component parts instead of viewing it as violence being done to a whole person, which is exactly what her curse does to her. For bleak/depressing, as someone who writes very heavy material but also kinda

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Ask what the point you're trying to convey is, and use that as your guideline. For example, gore! In FtF, Tiferet is someone hyper-aware of bodies at all times thanks to her curse, and I want readers to be in her shoes, so I fixate on bodily violence more in her perspective than I would with

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Potential readers can read those sample pages and decide whether they're interested in a romantic fantasy book that includes that kind of horror. If it's upsetting or not what they're looking for, they found out before buying.

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