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Originally Posted by DMB
I would find it hard to imagine a woman writing something like this. I find it hard to imagine a man writing something like this, although I seem to recall that P.G. Wodehouse had a male character who wrote slushy romances. |
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Originally Posted by Ea
Men writing romance novels under a female pseudonym are not completely unheard of.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Very true. There are a number of male authors who write for Mills and Boon (Harlequin) using female pseudonyms.
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It's the future, and maybe already the present. Now that the anthropological reasons for men predominance are finally(*) fading out, the deep values come to the surface. They read more, because they are more interested in the interior life: they know about it - while we have to read about it - so they are a more proficient target for the market.
(*) We do not have to run for the calories gathering anymore, on the contrary ...