Guild-Monster of the Post Apocalypse (working title not final.) It'd be a system crash type novel where magic returns to Earth and has a game-like system. Some people would have monster classes, so were excluded from joining guilds. Main character is the first person to unlock the ability to found a guild, and founds a guild focused around people with monster classes or anyone else excluded from the original 5 guilds of this region (Probably the area around St. Louis because write what you know).
From there it would be a slice of life series about building the guild, going on adventurers against small threats, working to engage in communal aid to help people who were left behind by the big Guilds, some implications of "we cannot repeat the mistakes of the old world" etc.
And then I come to the problem. The thing that has made writing so hard for years now.
I write in a genre called LitRPG. I know how to sell LitRPG. This book would be perfect for LitRPG.
A vocal minority of LitRPG readers attack anything with queer characters. Many more just don't read if it has queer characters, or women as the MC.
Money is tight right now for me. I need a good solid launch to really get my feet back under me. LitRPG Apocalypse makes good money if it's written to market. But if it's written to market, it would need to be X-Men like, where the queer stuff is all in the coding and not in the text so it goes over the heads of those reactionary bigots. I can do that...but damnit I want to write a queer story. I could get it to my existing readers, they like my books with women leads and some outright queerness...but if I'm going to be stable, I need to pick up new readers, and I don't know how to do that without writing to appease the larger readership of my genre.
Are there queer people who are out there who would like this? And if so...how do I find them? Because if I can get enough interested fellow queers, I can push ahead with this right away. I'll divert my entire writing time (less what I spend on contracted work) into finishing this book, because god do I want to write it.
I just can't gamble on it.