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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
The problem is, with a few exceptions, men don't read books by women writers.
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I wouldn't go as far as that personally, but I must admit that I'm somewhat guilty of that where urban fantasy is concerned. UF written by women tends to devolve into Paranormal Romance, in my experience, if not outright softporn (Yes, I'm looking at
you, Laurell K. Hamilton! Curse you for what you did to Anita Blake!).
A while ago I got ahold of an ebook by a Devon Monk which sounded interesting. Sounded male, at least to me. I wasn't a dozen pages in when I got the feeling 'This is not written by a man, 'Devon' or not' (precisely because the first signals of romance were already visible).
And some googling taught me that Devon Monk is indeed a woman... In other genres I don't mind one way of the other (at least I have never found it significant), but in UF I do tend to stay away from female authors.