Reading round naming and clarification

[Dan]

1. I propose that future 'CLEAN' reading rounds are named 'NOT EXPLICIT' or 'CHILD APPROPRIATE' or something like that. When 'CLEAN' is interpreted as 'NOT EXPLICIT' that means more explicit or very explicit works are implicitly being deemed 'DIRTY' which I feel has unfair negative connotations concerning the authors' books that go in those rounds.

2. The first one leads me to some slight confusion of the difference between the 'EXPLICIT' and 'GENERAL' reading rounds. My latest book (and my earlier one to be fair) are not hardcore erotica or violence. But they have a few passages in them and some dialogue which could be considered explicit; a bit of swearing etc. Does that mean my book can only go in the EXPLICIT rounds? Or... what's allowed in the GENERAL ones? Or is it a gut-feel kind of thing?

[Kat]

Hi Dan!

As far as what can go in rounds, for CLEAN rounds, they should have no graphic sex, cursing, or violence.

GENERAL rounds and all rounds except the clean round, may contain 18+ content. So this would include the Out of this World Round, Mystery/Thriller Round, or anything except the Clean round.

The reason we have an 18+ round is to have a dedicated round from time to time for those books, just like we occasionally have a Mystery/Thriller round, or a Novella round. But 18+ books can go into any of the rounds as well except a Clean round.

Hope this helps.