Policy
Editorial policy
Independence
We choose what to cover on reader usefulness and the strength of available sources. Nobody pays for coverage. We have no advertising, affiliate links or sponsored content. Any future outbound link that involves a relationship (for example, to another site run by the same owner) will be disclosed and marked with the appropriate rel attribute.
Accuracy and sourcing
- Every factual claim about a book, an author or publishing history must be supported by a source listed on the page.
- We separate editions: the year and publisher of the Barking Rain Press edition, later editions and the current publisher are listed separately.
- We do not guess. We never infer a book’s plot or an author’s biography from an old URL or title. Items we can’t verify stay unpublished.
- We paraphrase publisher descriptions and don’t reproduce excerpts. Short quotations are attributed.
Honest disclosure of how pages are made
Pages are drafted with AI-assisted desk research and checked by a separate AI review pass. We never describe this as human review, expert approval, a personal reading or hands-on testing. Reading notes are framed as observations drawn from sources, not as reports of having read the book.
Judgements, ratings and spoilers
We don’t publish star ratings, scores, invented reader reviews or award claims without a source. Premises stay within what the publisher or author has disclosed. Content notes appear only when a source supports them.
Children and families
This is primarily an adult-fiction publication. Where a book was published for younger readers we say so, based on the publisher’s or author’s description. We do not collect personal information from anyone, including children.
Links to other sites
Source links point to the evidence for a claim. Links to sites operated by this site’s owner are off by default and can only appear after individual editorial approval, with disclosure. None are published today.
Corrections
See the corrections policy.