Do you have a preference between male and female authors?
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Re: Do you have a preference between male and female authors?
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This conversation reminds me of when I was taking a mentor program in my senior year of high school. The year was 2008, and I was beyond ecstatic to have a real conversation with an accomplished author. My teacher set me up to talk to Erin Hart (who is a fantastic author, by the way). We had a long conversation about the difficulties of being a female writer (at least back then), as they were far fewer than male writers. What never left me was when she told me that, while female readers tend to buy books regardless of the author's gender, male readers are a lot less likely to buy a book from a female writer. I don't know if that still applies eleven years later, but as an aspiring author, that really stood out to me. It makes perfect sense why, for the longest time, female authors were pressured to use their initials rather than full names, so that potential buyers wouldn't know a woman wrote it.
I'm glad times are changing. I don't think this is nearly as much of an issue anymore, but I still come across the occasional man who avoids female authors - not often, maybe once every few years. I've never come across a woman who flat-out refused to read books written by men (though I'm sure they're out there). Weird world.
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Then in later years, in later published books, I saw that when women wrote sex scenes, the man pretty much dedicated his whole being to making everything perfect in every way for the woman. Not just physically, but emotionally too. He was basically a slave to that one woman in all ways because he was turned on by every single thing about her at every second of the day.
Male authors often wrote (write) quick sex scenes where the guy would grab some willing stranger off the street that only wanted to give him sexual pleasure and leave. No names, no anything, barely worth a mention. Kind of like he grabbed a quick bite to eat, had sex with some girl who couldn't keep her hands off him, then attended to the important matter of his business meeting.
Black women authors write differently than white too, I noticed.
Political, societal, personal. I really enjoy the differences in men and women. And it's very interesting to see one sex trying to portray the other authentically. Some authors will tell of getting as much feedback as possible from the one they're trying to write about to make sure it's realistic.
The differences are fascinating and I'm often annoyed that some modern cultures (in America for one, where I live) are trying to blend all differences of sex and race into one bland, homogeneous bowl of mush.
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