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  • Understanding the Rating System: How it works and why it matters.

  • Navigating Book Challenges: How to protect your work and advocate for access.

  • Building Trust with Readers and Librarians: Using your rating to connect and grow your audience.

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Marketing Materials

Share your rating proudly and professionally!
We provide a range of resources to help you:

  • Digital Badges: Add them to your website, social media, or email newsletters.

  • Sample Press Releases: Announce your rated book to the world!

  • Social Media Graphics: Show your rating visually to build reader trust.

  • Tips & Best Practices: How to talk about your rating to attract the right readers.

These materials amplify your story—while helping to ensure it stays accessible.

Sample of Rating results that will be shared with Librarians and Bookstores:

Book Title: Pawnee Prisoner: The Story of Jane Gotcher Crawford
Author: Vivian McCullough
Rating: R
Content Labels: V, SC, ST
Explanation: This historical novel includes graphic and intense scenes of violence (including murders, scalping, and torture), explicit depictions of sexual violence threats, and deeply sensitive topics involving abduction, cultural conflict, and trauma. Given the severity of these scenes, it is best suited for mature readers ages 17 and up.

Book Title: PROVEN PATHWAYS TO WEALTH & HAPPINESS (2021 Revised)
Author: Victor Vonico Johnson
Rating: G
Content Labels: None
Explanation: This book is a motivational and practical guide on achieving financial well-being, wealth, and personal happiness through mindset change, goal setting, and practical financial strategies. It includes no explicit language, no violence, no sexual content, and no adult themes beyond general money and personal development. The book is suitable for general audiences of all ages.

Book Title: Pawnee Prisoner: The Story of Jane Gotcher Crawford
Author: Vivian McCullough
Rating: R
Content Labels: V, ST
Explanation: This novel contains scenes of intense violence including scalping, torture, and murder, as well as depictions of kidnapping and trauma, especially affecting women and children. Although no explicit sexual scenes are present, there are implications of sexual threat and humiliation. The sensitive themes of historical warfare, family massacre, and captivity render the book appropriate only for mature readers aged 17 and up.
 
Book Title: Sunrise Over the Pumpkin Patch
Author: Linda Brooks Davis
Rating: PG
Content Labels: ST
Explanation: This book contains mild thematic elements related to grief, abandonment, and personal loss, particularly surrounding foster care, family trauma, and healing from emotional wounds. While the tone is uplifting and faith-based, the sensitive topics presented may benefit from parental guidance, especially for younger readers. There is no explicit language, violence, or sexual content.

Book Title: Pillars of Creation: A Quest for the Great Name in a Nietzschean World
Author: Carlos Nicolás Flores
Rating: R
Content Labels: EL, DA, ST

Explanation: This literary novel explores themes of violence, poverty, and spiritual crisis along the Texas-Mexico border. It includes references to drug trafficking, mass graves, government corruption, and existential despair, as well as mild to moderate language and depictions of alcohol and substance-related trauma. While not graphically violent or sexual, the mature philosophical and social themes make it suitable for readers aged 17 and up.