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Originally Posted by bookfiend
For example, I'm sure some readers of romance wonder about male authors, since they seem to be in the minority (in fact, I think there was a recent thread about this).
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Aren't the male romance authors mostly writing under female-sounding pseudonyms?
I've heard that men actually make up a larger proportion of romance authors than you might think, only they're just not writing under their "real" names* because it's thought that the books wouldn't sell as much, in much the same way that female authors had to for centuries† mostly had to disguise their gender when writing non-romances.
* Except Fabio, who's apparently ghost-written anyway.
† Why hello there, Georges Eliot and Sand!