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Top 1 Most Read Mystery - Caper Light-hearted mystery that is easy to read, witty and not too intense. Can also be more comic in nature. Examples: Clue, Scooby Doo, Hardy Boys, or Janet Evanovitch books A Ticklish Thriller (Revised) by Ticklishboy30 Complete Top 6 Most Read Mystery - Cozy Mystery also referred to as "cozies", are a sub-genre of crime fiction in which sex and violence occur off stage, the detective is an amateur sleuth, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community. This is also a sub-genre with strong tropes that define it WHISPERS by PhillMakracken Temporary Hold A Ticklish Thriller (Revised) by Ticklishboy30 Complete Murder of a Moral Man by St. George Complete River City by Bill W Complete Bellini by Cole Matthews Complete Ticklish Descendants by Ticklishboy30 In Process Top 6 Most Read Mystery - Detective stories where the protagonist is a sleuth of some sort, ranging from nosy neighbor to retired detective that is puzzling out the details of why a crime was committed and who did it. More intense than a cozy, more serious than a caper, but not as hard core has hard boiled/noir. Example: Agatha Christie books Keeper of the Rituals by Libby Drew Complete Dating Rules And Pretty Fools by Laura S. Fox In Process The Theocracy - The Blackened Cross by ValentineDavis21 Temporary Hold The Kid On The Bike by RichEisbrouch Complete Fix It by RichEisbrouch Complete Youngblood by metajinx Long-Term Hold Top 6 Most Read Mystery - Historical Mystery The historical mystery or historical whodunit is a sub-genre of two genres, historical fiction and mystery fiction. Raiders of the Lost Ark Carême in Brighton — a mystery novel by AC Benus Complete Blades of Ashes by lilansui In Process Here Be Dragons, Charlie Boone! by Geron Kees Complete The House of Storms by Geron Kees Complete Demon Dream by AC Benus Complete MARDI - At the Crossroads of Life and Art - A Film Script by AC Benus Complete Top 10 Most Read Mystery - Light Mystery Contains light mystery elements such as crimes to solve, but solving a crime is not the focus of the story. The Innocence Of Night by Remijay Complete Circumnavigation by C James Complete Bearpaw: An Old West Tale by Headstall Complete The Alpha by WolfM Complete Tristan's High School Life by AquariusGuy Complete 0's and 1's: CBDT by W_L Complete The Wink by grahamsealby Complete Sidewinder by Headstall Complete Acts of Deception... by Naptowngirl Complete The Brotherhood: Awakening Book II by The Writer X In Process Top 2 Most Read Mystery - Noir/Hard-Boiled (Strong Trope Alert) in noir the protagonist isn't a detective, but a victim, a suspect, and/or a perpetrator of crime. Hard-Boiled is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction). The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who battles the violence of organized crime that flourished during Prohibition (1920–1933) and its aftermath, while dealing with a legal system that has become as corrupt as the organized crime itself. Detectives of hardboiled fiction are often antiheroes. Notable hardboiled detectives include Philip Marlowe, Mike Hammer, Sam Spade, Lew Archer, Slam Bradley, and The Continental Op. The Theocracy - The Blackened Cross by ValentineDavis21 Temporary Hold Scene: An Abandoned Alleyway Leading to a Doorway by Young Sage Complete Top 2 Most Read Mystery - Police Procedural is a subgenre of procedural drama and detective fiction that emphasizes the investigative procedure of a police officer or department as the protagonist(s), as contrasted with other genres that focus on either a private detective, an amateur investigator or the characters who are the targets of investigation River City by Bill W Complete Solitary by RichEisbrouch Complete

it might explain the hands...

Just to confirm, Google continues to ignore settings. As lovely as it would be to ditch them, we can't afford to. I've done the leg work and ordered the new server today, which is a bonus... it's cheaper and better than our current server. Some time this week the site will be moving.

Google has decided the site needs to be on "auto-ads" so they are controlling what shows up. It's different for everyone based on browser, location, and other things. I've seen some pretty stupid stuff and have been fighting with Googles settings... which they keep changing to suite themselves or ignoring my settings after a day or two. Can't turn them off though. 🤷‍♂️

While authors on the site provide content, Ad blockers for others or on other sites are at minimum ethically dubious. Websites provide content to you without charging in exchange for display of ads. If you go and take their content but provide nothing in return... that has a word I'll let you think of on your own. As a website owner, I either pay for Premium or ad-free or whatever for the sites I visit, live with the ads, or I don't visit. Many sites run a "Freemium" model, such as Gay Authors, where a mixture of paying members and ad-served members are enough to sustain sites... but as you look around and watch sites, news sites in particular, disappear, it is in large part due to this model going away. I fully expect most sites to go full pay to play in order to survive. Ad blockers just accelerate this process. It appears that Google is getting desperate because of this seismic change in the internet, as an insane percentage of their revenue is advertising. They are the ones that adjusted the settings on the site to add more ads. I've adjusted them back 4 times now and they keep changing them. Not sure what that tells you, but I can say that Gay Authors is running in the red right now due to dropping subscribers and severely dropping ad revenue. I'll be exploring options because it is clear that the current path is not sustainable to any website.

It might be. Google keeps fiddling with things and different browsers react differently. And people are getting different things.

Google controls where ads get placed. I suspect they are getting desperate as they keep changing settings on their own. Everything seems to be working when I check. If you want to avoid ads completely and still have a site to visit, Premium Members have no ads. https://gayauthors.org/subscriptions/

In the story archive, categories are something different and are labeled as such qhen you edit stories. You are asking about Genres and Sub-genres so i fixed your topic title. You can choose any sub-genre that makes sense for your story. The primary genres are set automatically when you select a sub genre. So if you set Family Saga as a subgenre it will automatically show under Literary Fiction Primary genre. The system will squawk if you set too many sub-genres. If you have that many you want to set, then the story probably lacks focus or you just need to set experimental as you aren't fitting into genre fiction.

Please contact staff or post in the help forum, not here.

Edit story -> step 3 -> genres. or PM list of stories to me with either what you want added or what it should be set for. I can mass edit quickly.

Assigning a genre to a story is usually in the hands of the author. I'm assuming @Mark Arbour has not re-evaluated the genre options now available. You can PM a staff member and request the addition or change for anthologies.

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