>Much in the same way that I think a lot of women don't use gender as a criteria for choosing the fiction they read.
this is what I saw while working in a bookstore as well. Fact -the largest number of buyers and readers are women. Are their choices of purchase influenced by the gender of the author they are considering buying? Honestly, not that I could ever see.
I do remember the occasional man that was biased against women writers. One of them finally came around, when he discovered Robin Hobb, saw that being woman does not make them weaker writers than men.
I don't remember any of my female customers - which constituted between 60-75% of a month's sales - factoring in the gender of the writers. It could be, and I just didn't notice, but I genuinely don't think so. A hell of a lot of things came into play before a word of text was read, in the decision to make the sale, from the picture on the cover to blurbs by other writers, to the advice of friends and my recommendations, but gender was not one I ever saw as a a decision factor.
>He just needs to be more diplomatic when he answers questions
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Date: 2007-09-10 09:19 pm (UTC)this is what I saw while working in a bookstore as well. Fact -the largest number of buyers and readers are women. Are their choices of purchase influenced by the gender of the author they are considering buying? Honestly, not that I could ever see.
I do remember the occasional man that was biased against women writers. One of them finally came around, when he discovered Robin Hobb, saw that being woman does not make them weaker writers than men.
I don't remember any of my female customers - which constituted between 60-75% of a month's sales - factoring in the gender of the writers. It could be, and I just didn't notice, but I genuinely don't think so.
A hell of a lot of things came into play before a word of text was read, in the decision to make the sale, from the picture on the cover to blurbs by other writers, to the advice of friends and my recommendations, but gender was not one I ever saw as a a decision factor.
>He just needs to be more diplomatic when he answers questions
this is also true.