Terms

By using this house you agree to these terms, including the arbitration section, and you represent that you are 18 or older. If you do not agree, leave by the same door you used. Privacy is part of this agreement.

Eighteen

This house suggests adult romance, including heat that burns. You must be 18 or older to use it, open a door, name a TBR, fill a profile, or receive a suggestion. I do not knowingly keep a door for anyone younger. There is no age wall on the Guard House. The representation is here.

What this house is

I aim books at readers who can endure them. A suggestion is not a promise you will finish the book, love the book, or buy the book. I am not the publisher. I do not sell the titles in the Library. Buy or borrow links leave this house. Those shops are not mine.

Your lists and your words

TBR is yours. I do not pull, edit, or rewrite it. If a title on it holds something you marked I cannot endure, I leave it on TBR, I name the exact line next to it, and I keep it off TBE.

Tropes, skip-if, blurbs, and questionnaire answers are yours. I use them to aim. I do not sell the inbox.

Authors

The door I prefer is still the reader request. When enough readers who have already read the book submit, I send a VIP Author code. There is no $3,000 on that path.

Pay $3,000 stays last and stays shut until the profile is complete and I can send a receipt. I do not take the money twice. If a charge fails, nothing is listed. If I cannot do the work, I refund the charge.

You must have the right to list the book and to name the skip-if. A takedown comes to me at the contact door. I read it.

License to use the house

I give you a personal, limited leave to use this house to read suggestions or to list a book. You do not own the house, the matching, or the Library records. Do not scrape the catalog, harvest inboxes, fake questionnaires, farm VIP codes, or pretend a door is someone else.

I can close a door

If a door is used to harm the house or another person, I can shut it.

As it stands

The house is offered as it stands. I do not warrant that a match will land, that mail will always leave, or that a third-party shop will have the book. To the extent the law allows, I am not liable for a DNF, a purchase you make after a suggestion, or a title you already named on your TBR.

Disputes — arbitration

Please read this section carefully. It affects your rights.

Except as written below, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these terms, your use of this house, a listing, a suggestion, a payment, or a door — including whether this section is valid or applies — will be resolved by binding individual arbitration, not in court, and not before a jury.

This section is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act.

Talk first. Before either of us files, send a written notice through /contact with subject line “Dispute.” Say who you are, the email on the door, what happened, and what you want. I will do the same if I have a claim against you. We will try to resolve it for 30 days. That time does not count against any deadline.

Small claims. Either of us may take a claim to small claims court in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, or in the county of your U.S. residence, if the claim belongs in that court. That path is instead of arbitration for that claim only.

How arbitration works. If the informal window ends without agreement, either of us may start arbitration with the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules. Those rules are at adr.org. If AAA will not take the case, we will pick another national provider with consumer rules, or a court will. There is one arbitrator. The hearing may be by phone, by video, or on papers. If a hearing in person is required, it will be in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, or in the U.S. county where you live.

Individual claims only. You and I may bring claims only in our own names. No class, collective, representative, or private-attorney-general action in arbitration or in court, except as the law forbids that limit. The arbitrator may award relief only for the individual party.

Costs. Filing and arbitrator fees follow the AAA Consumer Rules. I will pay what those rules require the business to pay.

Opt out. You may reject this arbitration section by writing /contact with subject line “Arbitration opt-out” within 30 days of first creating a door or first using the house after this section is posted, whichever is later. Name the email on the door. If you opt out, this section does not apply to you. The rest of these terms still do.

Oklahoma. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Oklahoma, without a fight about whose law applies, except that the Federal Arbitration Act governs this section.

If a piece fails. If the class waiver cannot be enforced for a given claim, that claim stays in court and does not go to arbitration. If any other piece of this section cannot be enforced, the rest still applies.

Changes

If these terms change, I post the new ones here. Using the house after that post means you agree. A change to this arbitration section does not apply to a dispute I already have notice of.

Contact

Write me. I read it. /contact