Feo Takahari
Auror
I'm thinking of restarting work on a novel I got a few chapters into writing. It's what you might call a children's story all grown up--all the tropes, the ideas, and to a certain extent the moral compass of children's fiction, applied to subject matter that a children's story wouldn't usually tackle. The problem is, I'm not really sure who the audience would be. I'm afraid dark fantasy fans might scoff at its idealism, but the amount of disturbing content necessary to make the story work could be a hard sell to fans of other genres. Is it worth writing the book if you don't know who would want to read it? And if you don't know, how do you find out?