Help picking category.

[Rustyoznail]

I would still lean towards Erotic Horror, but any thoughts would be appreciated.

It sounds like EH, but if there’s a whiff of incest, that’s where it will go.

Just a suggestion, if you finish it in time. If the son buys a knapsack or a box from ‘Amorous Goods’ with the drugs or really magic mushrooms in it, horror or the supernatural is implied. The actual category becomes less important.

 

[Quinn_McMullen]

See my comment above - N&N is a bit of a nowhere category. If you don't stick with E&V (which is not a bad category), and you've gone a bit Loving Wives in Romance (they like warm and fuzzy) then you could try Erotic Couplings. It's not too bad as a category, and generally readers don't declare war.

To ask for a category change, resubmit the whole story, same title plus EDIT, and add a Note to the Editor, asking for a category change. Keep in mind that Laurel is the final arbiter of category, but unless the story is mostly incest or non-con, she'll mostly always change.

Doing it that way, as an edit, means you keep all scores and comments. You won't get a run on the new category front page, though.

Thanks EB. That is some sage advice for a newby.

 

[ElectricBlue]

It sounds like EH, but if there’s a whiff of incest, that’s where it will go.

Not necessarily. If you argue the case with Laurel that a story's primary theme is "x" and incest is a sub-theme, she'll put it in your preferred category with an editor's note at the top.

I've got a transgender story with a sibling sub-theme that would have been crucified in I&T (because she's got a cock), but the trans theme determined the category.

 

[RetroFan]

It sounds like EH, but if there’s a whiff of incest, that’s where it will go.

Just a suggestion, if you finish it in time. If the son buys a knapsack or a box from ‘Amorous Goods’ with the drugs or really magic mushrooms in it, horror or the supernatural is implied. The actual category becomes less important.

Thanks for the replies, its a definite for Erotic Horror. There's no incest in the story, which is a good thing, the family in my story is messed up enough as it is without screwing around with each other. The son who scores the drugs is an absolute maniac, creating chaos wherever he goes and drinking his own bathwater. You really wouldn't want somebody like that jumping into bed with his own sister and mother.