It should be compulsory for Trigger Warnings to be put in books that could be triggering for some readers. This should be vital and not a choice. Authors should respect their supporters, and have the decency to warn them if their books have triggers. They're stating that it’s a spoiler when it clearly isn’t because you're not addressing what the trigger is or who is being triggered in the book.

Do you think mental health is a joke? No one should have to leave a book group, because an author is too selfish to include trigger warnings. Just because you haven't gone through what you write - and don't understand the pain of those who have - doesn't mean you can write about it as if you have and publish it WITHOUT ANY WARNING! If you have, I'm sorry but that's an even bigger reason to why you should include trigger warnings. You wouldn't want to read a book that has in explicit detail the trauma you went through, would you? Imagine if the person was on a healing journey to overcome what they went through? Reading that won’t help, but deter it.   

You say you care about the readers and appreciate them for all the support they give you. But the truth is you care more about the money you earn through them. We know this is your job but don’t be insensitive. Money isn’t worth someone else’s suffering.

Just imagine a reader walks into a bookstore, and decides to pick up your book, because the cover looks amazing, the blurbs intriguing, and guess what? It has no trigger warning.

Eventually, they will read it to distract themselves, only to become distraught once they stumble upon the triggering scene that they've experienced and are trying to forget or overcome.

Mental health needs to be taken into serious consideration. Ignoring it leads to suicide. It's not a joke, it's real and it hurts.  People have serious problems such as; suicidal thoughts, self-harm, eating disorders, anorexia, sexually assaulted, have depression, PTSD, panic attacks, etc…

This isn’t an amazing plotline for the authors, its serious and it deeply and emotionally affects people. If you truly care about your readers; put Trigger warnings in. Many are so intensely triggered that they turn to self-harm just to drown out the pain the memory causes. Some even have panic attacks. Few even try to kill themselves, because it becomes unbearable. I'm not wholly blaming the book but when they keep being reminded of something they're either trying to forget or move on from- reading it in a book, especially in explicit detail- doesn't help. Not when they can avoid being put in that situation by having been warned beforehand.

I'm not being overdramatic because it's true. Kids on Wattpad do it and you're grown, adults. What does that say?

New York times shouldn't even be supporting the authors that don't put in trigger warnings, regardless of them being best sellers. All Publishers shouldn't be allowing books to be published without Trigger warnings. Goodreads should be putting trigger warnings on the books that need it. Barnes and Noble's shouldn't be allowing these publishers to sell their books without trigger warnings in their stores- Amazon and Kindle and Apple Books shouldn't either. Not even self-publishing authors. And with this petition, I hope to make it compulsory for them all.

Here’s a link to prove my point: https://branlindyayres.com/2018/05/27/should-authors-use-trigger-warnings/

BOOKS THAT NEED TRIGGER WARNINGS SHOULD'NT BE PUBLISHED OR SOLD WITHOUT ONE!!!