Last updated: 11/08/2025

Silent Partner Press is a small, stubborn shop with multiple imprints (DreadAche, Kentwood & Cline Love Stories, Red Herring Run, Otherplaces Press, Rustler’s Ridge Press). We move fast, we write a lot, and we publish across a wide range of genres and tones.

This page exists to be clear about two things:

1. Diversity & representation – how we think about the people on the page
2. Accessibility – how we try to make our books and site usable for as many readers as we can

We’re not perfect. We’re not a giant corporation with a committee. We’re a small press trying to do right by readers and learn as we go.

1. Diversity & Representation

We publish across horror, romance, thrillers, fantasy/sci-fi, and western/neo-western. That means you’ll see:

• Characters from different backgrounds, cultures, and walks of life
• Settings that range from historical and rural to near-future and weird
• Stories that sometimes get dark, bloody, and emotionally heavy, especially under DreadAche

Our baseline:

• People are not props.
• Marginalized groups are not here just to die for someone else’s character arc, be a punchline, or exist as trauma wallpaper.
• Stereotypes are lazy.
• We try to avoid cheap clichés about race, gender, sexuality, disability, mental health, religion, or region. If something feels like we’ve leaned on a lazy trope, we want to know.
• Own-voices vs. research.
• Not every story will be “own-voices,” but if we’re writing outside our direct lived experience, we aim for respect, research, and basic human dignity instead of guesswork and caricature.
• We care more about “did this hurt real people?” than “was this technically allowed?”
• If multiple readers from a group say, “this portrayal is harmful,” that gets our attention and may lead to edits, content notes, or, in extreme cases, pulling a title.

We don’t claim to always get it right. We do care when we get it wrong.

If you think something we published crosses a line, email us at [feedback@silentpartnerpress.com] with:

• Book title and imprint
• Location (chapter/page or Kindle location)
• What didn’t sit right and why

We may not agree with every take, but we read it all and adjust where it makes sense.

2. Content Warnings & Sensitive Topics

We publish some very dark material under DreadAche (horror, violence, psychological terror) and sometimes under other imprints when the story demands it.

We’re not going to sanitize everything. We are going to give people enough info to avoid content that will wreck them.

Our approach:

• High-impact content (e.g. sexual violence, child harm, suicide/self-harm, graphic torture) will be flagged in content warnings either:
• On the product page (where allowed), and/or
• On a dedicated content warnings page linked from our site
• Imprints signal tone:
• DreadAche = horror/dark, expect brutal stuff
• Kentwood & Cline = romance, emotional heat; explicit sexual content will be labeled
• Red Herring Run = tension, crime, betrayal; some violence, some dark themes
• Otherplaces Press = depends on subgenre; can range from wonder to grim
• Rustler’s Ridge = western/neo-western; violence and moral gray is baked in

If you need more detail on triggers before buying/reading, email [content@silentpartnerpress.com] with the book title and what you’re concerned about (e.g. “Any on-page sexual assault?”). We’ll answer straight.

3. Accessibility of Our Books

We’re an indie operation, so we don’t have a fully staffed accessibility department—but we do care if people can actually use what we make.

Here’s what we aim for with our ebooks:

• Standard EPUB formats
• So they work with most e-readers, apps, and screen readers.
• Reflowable text
• No weird locked layouts for novels. You should be able to:
• Change font size
• Change fonts
• Adjust line spacing / margins in your app or device
• Reasonable contrast and font choices in print
• Print editions will use:
• Highly readable fonts
• Dark text on light backgrounds
• No ultra-tiny 7pt nonsense just to save paper
• Minimal text-in-images
• Important text stays as text, not buried inside images that screen readers can’t see.

What we’re working toward as we grow:

• Better alt text or descriptions for any non-decorative images in ebooks and on the Site
• Clearer notes about reading order for series
• Occasional large-print–friendly versions when there’s demand

If you hit an accessibility barrier with one of our books:

• A file that doesn’t work well with your screen reader
• A layout that makes reading unusually hard
• Something else along those lines

Email [accessibility@silentpartnerpress.com] with:

• Book title and format (Kindle, EPUB, PDF, print)
• Device/app you’re using
• A short description of what’s going wrong

We can’t promise instant fixes, but we do want to know and improve.

4. Accessibility of the Site

We try to follow basic web accessibility practices when building our pages, including:

• Using proper headings where possible
• Keeping decent color contrast for text
• Avoiding tiny, unreadable fonts
• Providing alt text for important images
• Avoiding auto-playing audio/video or blinking garbage

We’re not perfect, and some parts may still be rough.

If you:

• Use a screen reader and the navigation is a mess
• Can’t read a section because of color contrast or layout
• Run into forms you literally can’t submit

…please email [accessibility@silentpartnerpress.com] with:

• Page URL
• What assistive tech you’re using (if any)
• What broke or didn’t work

We’ll adjust where we can.

5. Zero Tolerance for Hate

What we don’t publish or platform:

• Content whose primary purpose is racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, or otherwise bigoted propaganda
• “Edgy” material that exists just to punch down at marginalized groups
• Stories that glorify real-world hate movements

We do publish difficult, violent, and morally gray stories—especially in horror and thrillers. The line for us is:

“Is the story exploring something ugly, or is it just celebrating it?”

If you think something crosses that line, tell us. We won’t promise to agree, but we will listen.

6. Final Word

We’re a small press trying to do right by:

• The people inside the books
• The people reading them
• The people reviewing and supporting them

We’re going to screw things up sometimes—on representation, on accessibility, on execution. The difference is we actually care when that happens and we’re willing to fix it instead of pretending everything’s fine.

If you’ve got feedback about diversity, content, or accessibility, send it to:

• General feedback: [feedback@silentpartnerpress.com]
• Accessibility issues: [accessibility@silentpartnerpress.com]
• Content warnings / sensitivity concerns: [content@silentpartnerpress.com]

You’re not just a transaction to us. If we can make this better for you, we want to hear it.