New feature: Heat Level control for your fiction books

This one comes straight from your feedback. An author told us they wrote a "spicy romance" and the finished book did not contain a single kiss. They were right to be frustrated: until now the AI only detected how much intimacy your story allows, but nothing in the pipeline ever promised how much it delivers. If your description was worded mildly, the book came out mild.

That changes today. On the Story Bible page you will find a new Heat Level dropdown, right next to Content Rating. It uses the standard romance-industry heat scale:

0 - Kisses-Only / Sweet. No sex on page or off. Yearning, tenderness, kisses, commitment.

1 - Closed Door / Fade-to-Black. Sex may happen, but always off-page, no explicit detail.

2 - Low Open-Door. Limited on-page intimacy, softer language, emotion over choreography.

3 - Steamy. Multiple clear on-page scenes, while the story arc stays the engine.

4 - High-Heat / Spicy. Frequent explicit intimacy with escalation, part of the reader promise.

5 - Erotic. Explicit intimacy as a core plot engine, with a full story arc and payoff.

Here is what makes it different from a simple content filter: your chosen level becomes a reader promise that travels through the entire pipeline. The Story Bible plans for it, the outline schedules intimate scenes as actual chapter beats spread across the acts, and every chapter delivers them at exactly the level you picked - never sanitized down, never escalated past it. Levels 4 and 5 also automatically route your book to our uncensored writing model, so nothing gets quietly softened along the way.

And it is not just for romance. The control works in every fiction genre - a thriller with a steamy subplot, a fantasy with a slow-burn romance at level 1, whatever your story needs.

If you leave it on Auto, nothing changes: the AI keeps matching the intimacy to what your premise implies, exactly as before. Existing books are not affected.

Set it before you generate your Story Bible and outline for the best result. If you have an existing draft that came out too tame, set the level and regenerate the outline - the new chapters will honor it.

Keep the suggestions coming. This feature exists because one of you took the time to describe exactly what was missing.

Zigmars

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New feature: Heat Level control for your fiction books