Plain old "fantasy" works fine for me for the Carousel books as does "contemporary fantasy". My preference is to stop dividing genres up so narrowly. I think that doing so tends to encourage limitations on what is available, encouraging more books that publishers can put the narrow labels on and less books that don't fit the labels.
Your definition of "contemporary fantasy" sounds fine to me. I expect it to mean that the story takes place in a world that is mostly like our own, at what seems to be the present time, has at least some characters who are like us, and that it has some fantasy elements added to the realistic setting and characters.
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Date: 2014-02-07 06:25 pm (UTC)Your definition of "contemporary fantasy" sounds fine to me. I expect it to mean that the story takes place in a world that is mostly like our own, at what seems to be the present time, has at least some characters who are like us, and that it has some fantasy elements added to the realistic setting and characters.