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Old 04-30-2013, 09:46 AM   #51
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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington View Post
All, from an older generation of writers, none of whom are concerned with marketing their work currently. How many modern men writers use initials? Not many I bet. The use of initials has become a sort of code to indicate that the author is a woman not writing romance novels.
DD Barant and G. T. Almasi are two current male writers that come to mind immediately as I've read books by them this year. Both had female protagonists and in DD Barant's case (urban fantasy), I saw no discernible difference between his Bloodhound Files urban fantasy and other "darker" female-protagonist-but-not-romance-oriented (but not necessarily completely lacking the occasional relationship or potential love interest) urban fantasy books, written by female authors, that I've read.

I'm a woman who is mostly into adventure/urban fantasy/not-romance-oriented books (I don't mind there being a love interest at some point, especially with a series, as most human beings develop relationships over the course of their adult life, but I prefer something else to be the plot) and I read male and female authors in more or less equal amounts, I suppose. Sometimes more of one, sometimes more of the other, depending on what genre I'm currently in (or if I've just discovered a certain author and read several books by him or her in a row).

My reading used to be very heavily balanced towards male authors when I was younger as most action/adventure seemed to be written by men (and aimed at men/boys) back then, but being into urban fantasy, crime and young adult genres these days makes sure that I get plenty of books written by women as well.

I rarely pay attention to the gender of the author - I can't always even tell, even if they're not "hiding" behind a pseudonym or initials, as not all first names are immediately and obviously gendered to readers from other countries - except in cases when male authors are writing books with female protagonists and it strikes me as either noticeably well done or remarkably badly done. (Related to this, I have noticed it seems to be getting more common, compared to my childhood/youth, for male children's/YA action/adventure authors to write books with girls as their main or co-protagonists, which is a trend I can only welcome!)

I have found that I have a bit of a preference for female protagonists these days, though, for what it's worth - not a marked preference, and I'm perfectly happy to read books with male protagonists as well, but overall, I am always a bit happier to come across a non-romance-focused book in my preferred genres that has a well-rounded female protagonist. This may also have something to do with me just wanting to balance out the 95%-male-protagonists reading material of my youth, though.
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