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• Verified content: The content must be submitted by the author or someone with permission from the author. Any content that is available on other sites will be verified upon submission. Note the QA regarding how to speed up the submission approval process.

In case of a translation, you must have the original author’s permission, the copyright holder’s permission, and the translator’s permission to publish it here.

• Original or Fanfiction: If your content is based on another author’s setting, characters, or terminology, it must be tagged as fanfiction with the appropriate credit added in the description. Unless the terminology is not specific to a certain fiction and is actually widely used, and/or the characters are mythical or historical creatures (i.e., out of copyright), in which case you can avoid using the fanfiction tag.

• Mature content: Only if a chapter is tagged appropriately [Gore, Profanity, Sexual Content, Traumatising] can it include mature content.

Note that descriptions (fiction and chapter titles) cannot have mature content, even if the piece is tagged correctly. While mature content may be included, fiction that mainly focuses on said content will be deleted, as we view such as being in poor taste.

• Quality and language: There is no quality control over fiction. However, if it has derogatory English [writ like dis], or if it is unreadable, it will be rejected or possibly deleted right away.

Submissions in languages other than English are okay.

• Real-world content: Avoid including real-world religions and politics. If a fiction is discovered to include insults toward real-world religion, the author will be warned or even banned. If you wish to include religion, either create your own or do it in the most respectful way possible.

Don’t include anything that depicts different “real world groups” in an offensive way.

Submit actual chapter content, not intros or author notes: Royal Road reserves the right to reject anything and everything regardless of the rules stated here. However, you are more likely to have your fiction approved if you followed all of the listed rules.