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Originally Posted by Apache
I have never chosen to read a book based on the authors race, gender or any other difference. I want to read books that I consider to be well told stories. I wouldn't care if the author was a Salamander if it could write a good story. As both a child and an adult I was reading fiction by Andre Norton, Leigh Brackett, C.J. Cherryh, Octavia Butler, James Tiptree, jr., Elizabeth Moon, and Lois McMaster Bujold. Also remember Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein.
Apache
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With all the pen names and such, it's not that uncommon for the reader to have no real idea who a new writer really is. If I were to guess, of the current authors that I read (i.e. not backlist), it's probably pretty close to a 50/50 split between male and female authors.