A Change of Genre?

[Asbel]

My story Hematoma has been in the "Gay Male" category since I started, because that's what it is. It's about a masochist and his relationship with a vampire, both men.

In the last few chapters I've been touching on female characters as well, and made the main character decidedly bisexual. The fifteenth chapter, which I'm nearly done writing, has no gay relations in it whatsoever, but instead has a scene with another male and female.

Should I change the category to Erotic Horror? If so, should I change the entire story?

 

[HeyAll]

IMO do whatever gets you more views.

 

[RejectReality]

I haven't read the story, but in my opinion, just having monsters in the story doesn't qualify it as Erotic Horror. It needs to be horror, and end badly.

You're dealing with Non Human creatures, so Non Human is probably the best place for it.

 

[Asbel]

It's possible for it to be in erotic horror in my opinion, because it focuses so much on blood and pain play between them. I've touched on piercing, tattooing, needles, cutting, all kinds of things.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Yeah, if the later chapters ramp up the terror and pain, then Horror should work ok. Otherwise Erotic Couplings, maybe, if you get going with the two guys and the girl.

EC readers are a widespread bunch, whereas EH and NH can have some very set ideas as to what they like, what they don't.

I wrote a gay incest chapter in my 23 chapter EH yarn. Couple of readers were most unimpressed and let me know. I thought, hmm, double standards going on here, it's OK a girl gets fucked in the ass, but not a guy? A bit of homophobia, I thought. That's where I locked in on my "it's my story, mate, I'll write what I bloody well want to. If you don't like it, change the channel, or write your own story."

Don't forget you can put each chapter into a different genre if you wanted to, but you can't reclassify the whole story arc (unless you re-submit each chapter as an 'edit' and ask Laurel to shift it. Any comments, scores and faves move with the chapter).

I trust you are going with 'your' ending. Hope so.

It's possible for it to be in erotic horror in my opinion, because it focuses so much on blood and pain play between them. I've touched on piercing, tattooing, needles, cutting, all kinds of things.

 

[Asbel]

I am definitely sticking to what I need to. No, there aren't going to be any threesomes, so it probably won't go in EC. Probably NH for at least this chapter, then. The rest might just stay in GM.