Permissions & Licensing · Plain rules for using our puzzles and art

Quick guide — what's usually OK vs. not OK

The sections below explain these rules in more detail and include examples. If you are ever unsure, you can always contact us and ask before you proceed.

1. Ownership & scope

Unless we say otherwise in writing, all content we publish is protected by copyright and related rights and is owned or controlled by R.R. Thalore. That includes:

• All puzzle content — word-search grids, custom word lists, clue text, and explanatory notes.
• All artwork — line art, medallions, constellation coins, borders, watermarks, icons, and decorative elements.
• All text — introductions, series lore, back-cover copy, help articles, and web content.
• Brand elements — the Chronicles of Wordcraft name, logos and crests, imprint names, and the R.R. Thalore pen name.

When you buy a book or download a digital pack, you own that copy, but you do not acquire ownership of the underlying puzzles or artwork. Your rights are limited to the uses described on this page, our Terms of Use, and any separate written license you have from us.

2. Personal & household use

Personal use means using our puzzles and art for yourself and your immediate household (family members or people living in your home), with no fee being charged and no public distribution.

For personal and household use, you may:

• Work through the puzzles and art directly in a printed book you own.
• Print or photocopy a reasonable number of pages from books or bonus packs you own so that you or your household can solve or color them more than once.
• Store backup copies of digital files you legitimately obtained (for example, a bonus pack PDF) on your own devices or private cloud storage.

You may not for personal use:

• Share full PDFs, scans, or large portions of a book or bonus pack with friends, online groups, or the public.
• Upload our files to shared drives, forums, social groups, or websites (even if you are not charging money).
• Strip our branding or copyright notices from pages before sharing them.

3. Teachers, libraries & group leaders

We're delighted when our books make their way into classrooms, libraries, book clubs, or game nights. To keep that sustainable, please follow these guidelines:

If you are a teacher, librarian, tutor, or group leader, and you have purchased a book or legitimately downloaded a bonus pack, you may:

• Photocopy or print individual pages for face-to-face use with your own class, club, or group, provided the copies are distributed free of charge.
• Project a page on a screen in the room for your group to solve or discuss together.
• Keep a single digital copy of a file on your school or organization's internal system for your own use.

Please do not:

• Upload our books or packs to shared drives or learning management systems in a way that makes them generally available to everyone in a school, district, or organization.
• Include our puzzles or artwork in packets, workbooks, or course materials that are sold or widely distributed.
• Reuse the same set of photocopied pages across many different groups or terms as a substitute for purchasing additional copies.

If you would like to use our content across multiple classes, campuses, or a large program, please get in touch so we can arrange an appropriate license.

4. Online sharing, reviews & social media

Sharing your progress is encouraged — it helps others discover the series and is part of the fun. To protect the work, please keep these boundaries in mind:

You may, without asking us first:

• Post photos or short videos of a few pages or spreads from a book you own to social platforms (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, Threads, YouTube).
• Share pictures of finished puzzles or colored artwork, including your own notes or annotations.
• Include small excerpts of pages in blog posts, reviews, or videos that discuss the books.

To keep things fair, please do not:

• Upload or stream full books, bonus packs, or large batches of pages page-by-page.
• Offer “free downloads” or printables that consist of our puzzles or artwork.
• Remove or crop out our logos, titles, signatures, or watermarks in a way that hides where the work came from.

When you post, it is appreciated (but not required) if you credit R.R. Thalore — Chronicles of Wordcraft and, where possible, link back to our site or book listing.

5. Commercial use, fundraising & collaborations

Any use of our puzzles or artwork that helps sell a product, service, or ticket — or that appears inside something you sell or distribute widely — is considered commercial use and requires our prior written permission.

Examples that require a license or written permission include:

• Including our puzzles or art in a book, e-book, magazine, or newsletter you sell or monetize (including on marketplaces like Amazon).
• Using our pages as printables in a membership site, course, or subscription box.
• Printing our pages for paid events, camps, conferences, or retreats where the puzzles are part of the paid experience.
• Using our artwork on merchandise (shirts, posters, mugs, digital wallpapers, etc.).

For small community fundraisers (for example, a school or library event) where you would like to use more than a handful of pages, please contact us with details. We're often happy to approve reasonable, well-explained requests.

6. Using our art vs. our puzzles

Many of our books include stand-alone artwork (such as medallions, constellation coins, decorative motifs, or temple scenes) alongside the puzzles themselves. Unless we state otherwise:

• You may color or decorate any artwork for your own enjoyment and share photos of your finished pages online, as described above.
• You may not scan or extract the artwork to use as a separate design asset (for example, as clip art, a logo, or a reusable graphic in other projects).
• You may not trace or lightly modify our artwork and present it as your own original work.

Creating your own myth-inspired or zodiac-inspired art that is merely inspired by our themes is fine. Reproducing or closely imitating specific designs, layouts, or coins from our books is not permitted without a license.

7. AI training, datasets & NFTs

To protect the integrity of the work and the people who support it, we place additional limits on how our content may be used in connection with AI, datasets, and blockchain projects.

Unless you have our explicit written permission, you may not:

• Use our puzzles, artwork, watermarks, or bonus packs to train, fine-tune, or evaluate generative AI systems or datasets.
• Include our pages or art in any dataset intended for machine learning, computer vision, or AI research.
• Mint our work (or close derivatives of it) as NFTs or similar blockchain-based assets.

You are welcome to use AI tools for your own personal enjoyment when solving or coloring (for example, to generate background prompts or color palettes), so long as you do not feed our pages into those tools in a way that makes the content part of a training set or public gallery.

8. How to request permission

If you would like to do something that isn't clearly allowed above — especially for commercial projects, large-group use, or collaborations — please contact us before you proceed. When you write, it helps to include:

• Which book(s), series, or specific pages you want to use.
• Whether your project is personal, educational, non-profit, or commercial.
• How many people you expect to reach (print run, audience size, number of copies, or approximate traffic).
• Where the material will appear (website, app, printed book, event, etc.).
• Any dates or deadlines you are working toward.

You can reach us at [email protected]. We review requests as time allows and may ask follow-up questions or propose a simple license where appropriate.

9. Changes & relationship to other terms

We may update these Permissions & Licensing guidelines from time to time, for example if we add new formats, launch new series, or adjust how we handle classroom and commercial requests. When we do, we'll update the effective date near the top of this page.

This page is meant to be a clear, plain-language companion to our core Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and related legal pages. It does not grant any rights beyond those documents or any specific written agreements you have with us. If there is any inconsistency, those other documents and agreements will take precedence.

If you still have questions after reading this page, please feel free to reach out. We want our readers, teachers, and partners to feel confident that they are using our puzzles and art in ways that are both generous and fair.