I'm glad to see Ann Leckie getting lots of attention, but I feel like we're repeating another cycle of 'Name one female writer and we're being feminists while ignoring all the rest.' So, since word of mouth is the only way to counter that, here is today's post talking about this.

One of my favorite new discoveries, Andrea K. Höst, unlimbers a list of 99 favorite female authors at Book SmugglersOthers are adding their own suggestions to the comments list ( Read more... )

I was invited to do a column for Fantasy Cafe, so I expanded on the ideas about fandom that I mentioned last month at gillpolack's LJ. Previous days have seen luminaries like Jacqueline Carey and Karin Lowachee. I mulled this for weeks--I don't feel like a fraud, exactly, talking about (my) writing, but I do feel like I'm being a bore. I've seen people bored ( Read more... )

Not just one but a couple of times, at ConDor, we were talking about quests, heroes, heroines, and glanced off heroes as written by women. That fit into a larger question about women's influence in letters that I actually wrote up, and will appear at the Fantasy Cafe in a few weeks.

But first, confining myself to heroes as written by females. I'd ( Read more... )

Probably everyone here is aware of the discussion going on all over about a recent discussion of the "best" works of SF, and how few women were mentioned.

la_marquise_de began a list of women writers whose works she felt should be represented on that list, and encouraged others to do so ( Read more... )

Dave Trowbridge passed this wonderful site on to me. No doubt Oursin and greythistle already knew of it, but I did not, so I pass it on to anyone else who loves obscure women's writing from around the turn of the century 1800--

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