Categories

Understand Our Categories


1.  Age Gap Romance: Romantic stories involving a couple with an age gap of at least 10 years between them.


2. Contemporary Romance: Romantic stories set in a milieu after 1995 and spilling over into the 2000s.


3.  Erotica: Stories where the erotic and sexual scenes are very high in number and/or the plot is driven by the erotic.


4.  Fantasy / Paranormal / Supernatural

a.         Fantasy: Stories set in a fictional universe that may be inspired by myth and folklore.

b.         Paranormal: Stories that include beings and phenomena that are outside the known, regular world and can include creatures that have been popularized by folklore, fairy tales, and popular culture, such as fairies, aliens, shapeshifters and the undead.

c.          Supernatural: Stories that incorporate elements like gods, archangels, demigods etc.

5.      Fusion Fiction: A story where one or more plot lines are combined. For e.g. drama and romance / mystery and romance / humour and suspense.You can also enter books with tropes that are not covered in other categories, For e.g. celebrity romance, military romance, medical romance, toaster-oven romance, late life coming of age, friends to lovers romance, enemies to lover romance etc.

 

6.         Historical Romance / Fiction: Romantic and/or general stories with lesbian leads set in a period before 1995.


7.      Mystery / Thriller / Adventure / Action / Crime


8.      Novella: Books with up to than 40,000 words.


9.      Romcom: Stories in which romance is central but has a lighthearted, humorous plotline pushing the envelope of plausibility.

10.     Sci-fi / Steampunk / Speculative

a.         Sci-fi: Stories that deal with or are set in worlds with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes and/or extraterrestrial life.

b.         Steampunk: Stories with a historical setting typically featuring steam-powered machinery rather than advanced technology.

c.          Speculative: Stories encompassing genres with certain elements that do not exist in the real world, often in the context of futuristic or other imaginative themes.

  

11.     Second Chances Romance: Stories where the lead couple were romantically involved with each other in the past and have reunited with one more chance at having a future together.

12.       Sports Romance: Romantic stories where either one or both the leading ladies play a sport professionally and the environment has sports as an integral part.

13.     Young Adult: Stories where the lead couple are in their teens.

Note that we may combine / drop categories dynamically each month to ensure that there are at least three nominees in the final categories available for voting.