I'm currently querying my first novel (please cross your fingers for me that it gets picked up). It's the first in a young adult series that I've already mapped out 5 books for, and I'm thinking I will need to include content and or trigger warnings in most of the books.
Book 1 includes a physical attack on a young gay man. Does that need a trigger warning for gay bashing?
Books 2 on include underage drinking and mentions of sex (nothing explicit). Does that need a content warning, as my target audience is the teen and young adult crowd.
Book 2 also includes questionable consent and Book 4 includes an attempted rape. Those should probably have content/trigger warnings.
I don't know that I've ever actually seen a content or trigger warning in a book. But I also can't remember the last time I read a book that might have needed one or the other. Do publishers have rules about these things? Until I get picked up by a literary agent, I'm not sure who to actually ask.
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