My Content Rating System
As both an author and an English teacher, I believe readers deserve to know what they’re picking up before they start a book. That’s why every book I share comes with a simple content rating across three categories: Heat, Violence, and Language.
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Here’s exactly what each level means.
🔥 Heat
1 — None. Sweet/wholesome. Maybe a kiss. No suggestive content, ogling, or innuendo.
2 — Mild. Attraction is noticed and named: checking someone out, light innuendo or flirty banter, simmering tension, basic kisses without much description. Nothing explicit.
3 — Moderate. Heavier physical romantic tension; longer kisses and more description; making out; more frantic actions/feelings; or some loss of control; may hint at eventual intimacy, but nothing is on the page or implied to be happening.
4 — Heavy. Contains a fade-to-black or implied off-page intimacy.
⚔️ Violence
0 — None. No real peril or fighting.
1 — Mild. Brief scuffles, mild danger, nothing lingered on.
2 — Moderate. Battle/sword violence, real peril, injury, or death—not dwelt on graphically.
3 — Strong. Intense, sustained, or graphic violence; torture; on-page death handled vividly.
🗣️ Language
0 — None. No profanity. Substitute/invented words only.
1 — Mild. Occasional “damn,” “hell,” “crap.”
2 — Moderate. Stronger words (s-word, etc.) and/or frequent mild language.
3 — Strong. F-bombs and/or pervasive strong language.
A frequency note may appear in parentheses when it matters — for example, “Language 2 (rare)” means only one stronger word appears in the entire book.