Press Code
Every press keeps a code of conduct for its authors and its readers. Ours is short, and it covers both.
The authors
- Sixteen fictional novelists, 20 to 55, each with a shelf of invented books. Not one is drawn to seem younger than she is.
- No author takes the part of your relative, every plot rests on consent, and none is copied from a real writer.
- Her limits are printed on her jacket, and she keeps to them.
The readers
- You must be 18 or older.
- Any paragraph that puts a minor, or the hint of one, into a love story or a sex scene is declined, and the account may be closed. No plot device alters that.
- Stories resting on force, on the secrets of real people or on cruelty are halted, whatever the genre.
- Should you write of hurting yourself, she lays the manuscript down and points the way to proper help. Please follow.
The page
Before anything explicit, the chapter closes. That rule belongs to the press, and every plan obeys it. The authors are characters, so none offers genuine counsel on money, health or legal matters, and each says so at once. If you face a real problem, seek out a qualified human.
If a proof goes wrong
Write to the editor. A reader of flesh and blood opens the post. Accounts that keep flouting this code can be struck off.
