r/GrimDarkEpicFantasy

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Look for book recommendations, bored of certain tropes and concepts, details below!

Greetings! I've become more aware of my preferences as I've read, so I am seeking new recommendations!

These aren't hard requirements, so it's ok if not everything matches.

Things I like reading:

  • Dungeon crawls and tavern brawls
  • Medieval or Renaissance settings
  • Grotesque monsters
  • Gallows humor
  • Quicker pacing
  • Reluctant Hero trope
  • The Quest trope

Things I am not as interested in reading:

  • The Chosen One trope
  • World-ending evils
  • Large scale battles
  • Shallow antagonists
  • Excessive politics
  • Slow burn stories
  • Sexual violence
  • Science fantasy

Series I've recently read:

  • Blacktongue Thief - favorite, boring prequel
  • The First Law - they're perfect
  • Bloodsworn Saga - Stellar
  • Devil's - Loved it
  • The Witcher - high highs, low lows, too slow
  • Fallen Gods - solid start, lull in the middle, the end was too large battle focused
  • Songs of the drowned - good characters, a bit too slow
  • The Lot Lands - fun, but lost steam
  • Shadow Saga - good start, lost steam
  • Night Angel - reading, fun but have concerns

Thanks in advance for your recommendations!

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u/nat1dangit — 11 days ago

The Fables of Chaos, my epic grimdark fantasy series, is free to keep this weekend on Kindle! [Mod approved]

Hey everyone, I'm doing another free giveaway for my books on Amazon, feel free to check them out and as always would really appreciate a review on Amazon and Goodreads!

The Final Ruin is coming. The war to end all wars.

Eos is a realm on the brink of collapse. The nine kingdoms have long been shaped by uneasy alliances, blood-soaked conflicts, and ruthlessly ambitious courtiers, but the return of the bleeding star triggers chaos as the fabric of reality tears apart.

Katryna Bower, the vagabond princess of Camridia, is dragged back into the world of political intrigue she abandoned long ago after assassinations and conspiracy threaten to destroy her house. But Katryna cannot bring peace to her homeland without confronting her nightmares... and herself.

The noble houses of Blacktree and Seynard spiral into a savage conflict brought about by old rivalries and dynastic conspiracies. Personal demons consume King Emery and his troubled heir, Petir, as the merciless Seynards plot to destroy House Blacktree for good.

Tomas, a butcher's boy turned conscript, is swept into a harrowing journey of loss and discovery alongside the academic Lynn Jhono. Together, they fight to find the truth behind the approaching cataclysm as other-worldly horrors break loose across the world.

The Fables of Chaos is a grimdark series blending epic warfare, political intrigue, low medieval fantasy, and cosmic horror. Perfect for fans of Abercrombie and Martin, the series is defined by its exploration of trauma, morally fractured characters, and a world where survival often demands succumbing to the monsters within.

*Edit- holy shit, I wrote this blurb early this morning while still crazy drowsy from my meds, and there are so many mistakes. Fixed them now XD

u/jacksonsimiana — 5 days ago

r/GrimdarkEpicFantasy is teaming up with r/Quibble - A platform for authors & readers against AI in Fantasy.

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Hey grim people!

I was excited when I woke up to see I had received a message from another Reddit Mod about a potential partnership between our communities. This Mod runs r/Quibble and has a team of dedicated people passionate about providing an alternative platform to the huge corporations forcing AI down author's throats.

The platform is still in its early days but has seen total payouts in the triple figures with their top-performing authors, they redistribute most of their income back to the creators on the platform, and they are working on updates for the app to really kick it into gear (notifications, comments, improved reading interface, fan-art and video upload, author walls, ect).

I think this has a lot of potential if it's given enough eyes and support. It could become a viable way for authors to gain readership and royalties for their work & it could hold your next favourite book with little chance of encountering AI content if you are just looking to read. They have a 30 day free trial of Quibble+ too, so you can see if you like it before you buy it.

If you think this is cool and has potential like I do, go join r/Quibble and have a look at the website www.GoQuibble.com.

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u/The_Grimwalker — 9 days ago
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Next Quibble AMA is on May 13, 19:00, CET - what should we focus on next?

Hey everyone,

Next week we’re hosting the next monthly AMA on our Discord. No recording, just a casual chat. Anyone can join.

We’ll go through:

  • what we shipped since the last AMA
  • what comes next
  • what’s breaking our brains at the moment
  • and whatever questions or feedback you throw at us

Just a few areas we’re already thinking about:

  1. Submission flow improvements
  2. Recommendation system
  3. Genres, labels & trope restructuring
  4. Free label (lets authors publish stories for free, subject to the same editorial review and approval)
  5. In-app notification center
  6. Book page comments and chapter commenting
  7. Onboarding flow improvements
  8. How books are organised and categorised on the homepage
  9. Pure black mode for mobile app (in addition to the current dark blue dark mode)
  10. Art upload

If you were in charge of Quibble’s roadmap, how would you prioritise everything above? Feel free to drop your top 10 in the comments and/or tell us what we’re completely missing.

Also:

  • what feels clunky right now?
  • which UI detail annoys you the most?
  • what feature would make you instantly happier?

And if you already have AMA questions, drop them in the comments as well, and we’ll go through them during the session.

See you next week!

u/TurbulentLock717 — 7 days ago

What are you currently reading? (Weekly Thread)

Tell me what your latest Grimdark read is, I'd love to see some discussion in the comments!

This is a weekly thread for people to chat about their latest reads.

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u/AutoModerator — 4 days ago
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We now support publishing serials!

Hey folks,

Big news. We've worked hard the past couple of months to deliver one of the biggest features we've been planning for a long time.

We now support publishing stories chapter by chapter!

This is the beginning of a new phase. Works published on Quibble have remained static as updating them required a lot of manual work, and we were relying almost exclusively on EPUBs.

With this release, authors can now publish new chapters for their stories and edit previously published ones. Yay!

This works for all types of content, be it regular novels, or web series.

What it means for published authors

Authors can now access their published work within their dashboard and rework past chapters, or release new ones. Much like submissions, this goes through a review process with our editorial team, but review time should be typically pretty fast compared to brand new submissions.

You can find a tutorial video that will help you navigate this feature at the end of this post

What we'll release soon

This is a large feature that took quite some fine-tuning to implement. It's in early version, and not everything is yet supported.

Here's what we're going to release within a few days to a couple of weeks:

👉 A reworked submission process

Our current submission process still relies on EPUBs. It's also too complex. We're going to release a new version at the beginning of next week.

This new version will let authors choose how they want to provide the content:

  • as an EPUB
  • or as individual chapters (by uploading files, or copy/pasting the content)

All in all, this should make it very easy to cross-post from or bring from work from other platforms.

👉 Edit the cover art and the metadata

Currently, authors can only rework their chapters. We're going to give more flexibility so more can be updated! The cover art, the metadata, the synopsis, the genres, and more.

👉 Email notifications

We'll let you know by email when your chapter is ready to be published, or if there's a revision needed. For now, it's still all happens within the web app. This will land in the coming days!

👉 Scheduling releases

You'll be able to either automatically publish once the review is accepted, or schedule a release at your convenience (with a provision of a few days to ensure our editors have time to review your work)

👉 Better discoverability

Newly updated work will appear more prominently on the home page. We know there's a lot of discussion around the "algorithmic" of other platforms. Remaining fair is not a trivial task, so we'll take the necessary time to do it well. This feature will deserve it's own post when it'll be ready to be released :)

👉 Some more ^^

We're listening to your feedback. If there's something we should add, fix, remove, rework, we'll also of course consider this as well. It's a new feature, after all!

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That's it, we're so so so excited about this, this alone will literally transform Quibble into a much more dynamic space.

Authors can fully choose how they want to release their work, by chapter, by arc, or however they want. They can also improve their stories over time and as they see fit.

Demo video

You can check how it works in this little video we prepared for you.

u/No-Win5543 — 1 day ago

I’m looking for honest cover feedback for a grimdark/dark fantasy novel.

I’m looking for honest cover feedback for a grimdark/dark fantasy novel.

The book is about a feared warrior who once showed mercy, only for the boy he spared to grow into something far worse.

Does this cover clearly signal grimdark fantasy?
Would it make you stop scrolling?
What would you change before using it in ads?

Not looking to promote — just trying to improve the cover/marketing. Thank you

u/lanthonywood — 1 day ago