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Originally Posted by ATDrake
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!
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That's quite possible; I really know little about the genre, since I don't read it. I was just going by lists of names I'd seen (which, as you say, could very well be pen names) and discussions on this and other reading forums.
