The judging system for this is slightly different than usual so it's being explained here.

The short of it is, there are three separate categories of books.  General genre (Comedy, action, horror), Specific genre (Fantasy, high school, sci-fi), and Common zodiac plots (zodiac mansion, zodiac high school).  So, if your book is a mystery about the zodiacs going to high school in space, you enter it under "Comedy", "Sci-fi", and "High school" for each category respectively.  You can enter your book once in each category.

Here are the categories:

Category #1: Action/adventure, comedy, mystery, romance, horror, nominations*

Category #2: Fantasy, sci-fi, dystopian, school story (magical or otherwise), modern day, crossover, one-shot, short story

Category #3: Zodiac high school, zodiac mansion, zodiacs gotta kill Ophiuchus, zodiacs as monarchs, zodiacs get powers and gotta save the world, Zodiac one-shot

*Some of you are probably wondering what "nominations" are.  That's if you read a zodiac book by someone else and you really like it and want to enter it.  Say you really liked "A royal zodiac mystery", so you nominate it for an award.  We should be clear though:  NOMINATED BOOKS CAN ONLY BE ENTERED IN CATEGORY ONE UNDER THE "NOMINATED" SECTION.  Nominated books tend to be of a higher quality, so we don't want them stealing other people's awards!

We also have another judging category called "Honors."  If the judge reading your book thinks "Gee the grammar on this book is amazing!" they'll comment the book's name on the "Entries" page.  Then the grammar judge will look over which books have been nominated to them and decide on a winner based on which one has the best grammar.

Honors: Best plot, best characterization, most original plot/characters, best writing craft, best grammar, most LGBT representation, most diversity, blurb, protagonist, ship, cover