Tag: gender (Page 2 of 3)

Fifty Shades of…

19/07/2012 / Ellie

. . . Fantasy, of course. What did you think I was going to say?

There has been much talk of late on teh intertubes concerning the fact that so many “Best of . . .” and “Top 100” lists of fantasy and SF writers are male author-heavy, with many people feeling that female spec fic authors are under-represented, marginalised or downright ignored.

In reaction to this, Amanda Rutter started Fantasy Mistressworks (as a sister to the SF Mistressworks site) and put together the following list of 50 Fantasy Mistressworks, based on suggestions from readers.

Curious, I checked out the list and marked in bold the ones I’d read (italics mean I own the book). Drumroll, please . . . Continue reading

Socks discrimination

16/03/2010 / Ellie

… or “Whose book is it anyway?” Part Two.

I was inspired to compose this post by a friend of mine, MM Bennetts, who feels not at all confident about writing female characters and was therefore somewhat stunned to find one had leapt, fully formed, like Athene from the brow of Zeus, onto the pages of her latest book.

This got me thinking. I’ve never actually considered that I had any difficulty writing female characters. I mean, I’m a girl. It should be easy, n’est-ce pas? I’ve got the inside track on how a woman thinks and feels, her motivations, her desires. Surely it should be the Sons of Adam, rather than the Daughters of Eve, that I struggle with? Continue reading