This post was not only prompted by a remarkably stupid NY Times review of the "Game of Thrones" TV series, in which the reviewer thought the story was a polemic against global warming, claimed that women don't like fantasy, and further claimed that women do love sex, so the sex was gratuitously crammed in to please them
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What I find especially interesting is that some women are writing the big fat fantasies about war and so forth, but are not getting promoted as much and not selling as much: Kate Elliott, Katherine Kerr, Sherwood Smith, Barbara Hambly (who has been pushed into other genres for lack of fantasy sales), Laurie Marks, etc.
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Got a death threat or two, and some screaming reviews of the HOW DARE SHE DOOOOO THAT!!! sort. If they'd been by Jonathan instead of Judith, I wonder if they might have done better all around.
http://www.amazon.com/Avaryan-Rising-Mountain-Han-Gilen-Princes/dp/0312863888/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1303078152&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Avaryan-Resplendent-Judith-Tarr/dp/B000H2M8QK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1303078189&sr=1-1
My next pseudonym is going to be initials, linked to a male-leaning bio. By way of experiment.
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