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caeli  ·  3652 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My novel wasn’t the problem, it was me

Oh yeah, I hadn't thought about smut -- intuitively it does seem like that would be almost exclusively female writers, and your friend's experience confirms that. And it's true that the hugest YA authors right now are women. I wish there were big databases on novels with metadata about author/genre/etc, it would be really interesting to look at.