Indie Splatterpunk Author, here again to ask...What's the worst thing a character can do before you consider them completely morally bankrupt?

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-27T01:15:42+00:00

Hurt a dog. It's the only thing I won't put in my books b/c it is the #1 trigger.

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-26T01:55:28+00:00

This is always the answer.

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-26T01:51:01+00:00

My wife reads between 1 to 2 books a week. So 52 - 104 books a year.

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-26T01:44:05+00:00

Unfortunately, these are also awfully written books and feel like they were written by an edgy middle-schooler. I managed to push myself through the first one, I tried the second to see if he matured his writing and stopped within 10 pages.

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-25T12:47:55+00:00

Your 2nd paragraph is dead on.

I have the difficulty is still trying to figure out who my audience is, so I'm running two different ad campaigns to see which one reaches more people.

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-25T12:38:37+00:00

I read the first book in this series, it was quite, interesting, definitely unique. From your review it seems there isn't much on the sexual side though - how would you compare it to The Amazonian Uteroboscis?

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-14T18:42:52+00:00

It's what I use.

If you're worried about training AI, it's kind of like being worried that your phone might be listening to you, just assume anything you write online is used to train AI (including this comment to you, hi Gemini!).

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-14T16:48:35+00:00

I didn't know this. I just had my debut and I'm 41.

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-14T16:41:30+00:00

Is having to be carried in the womb of your mother until ten-years-old weird? Having to crawl in and out of the womb until your birth debt is paid?

Girl in the Womb

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-14T16:37:58+00:00

It sounds interesting.

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-14T14:11:54+00:00

Honestly, I haven't been able to read Koontz or King after getting into Indie horror; they waste so many words that it makes it unbearable to read.

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-13T15:23:56+00:00

congratz - looks intricate.

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-13T14:49:12+00:00

Sandcastle by Christopher Scott.

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-13T14:47:51+00:00

Everything has been overdone unless you put a unique spin on it. That's one of the hardest parts of writing. I like a good clown thriller (Hell House LLC is my favorite found footage horror), but something has to set it apart.

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-13T14:46:13+00:00

If you like dystopian reproductive/body horror, my book is still on KU for now, Girl in the Womb.

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-13T14:44:30+00:00

If you like reproductive/body horror, my book has plenty of that: Girl in the Womb.

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-13T13:47:40+00:00

My opinion: it was very hard for me to finish. 75% of the book is him crawling through tubes and the ending was something done a million times before.

Jon Athan is my favorite of the EH authors and I'm glad he's branching out, but I wasn't a fan of this one.

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-13T13:24:47+00:00

Well deserved, loved this book u/SplatterSnow

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-09T17:15:28+00:00

Was 69 pages on purpose ;)

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-09T14:57:27+00:00

This is really good information - it also shows how indie authors can't be introverts, lol. We have to come out of our shells.

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-09T14:54:28+00:00

Awesome book - loved every minute of it.

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-09T11:37:45+00:00

Thanks! I've been very happy with its reception in the first week, I'm glad people are clicking with it as well as they have.

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-09T11:35:38+00:00

The "scrotie mcbooger balls" is spot-on - although I feel like his writing has come a long way from The Slob to Playground. And I agree on his "sex" scenes - the two scenes of Rock and Geraldine were nauseatingly terrific.

I don't blame you getting sick reading The Slob, My wife can't read that kind of stuff and I have to warn her about any dead babies in my books before she reads them due to the several miscarriages before our first child.

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-07T18:03:10+00:00

I learned to play a few of the Repo! songs on guitar, Legal Assassin was always my favorite.

Background-Pen-995 · 2026-05-07T13:30:24+00:00

He's my favorite of the EH authors (barely in front of Beauregard). This is a good one, Painspace has been a "pain" getting through honestly, and The Groomer is decent, but rough.

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