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caeli  ·  3504 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.





kleinbl00  ·  3504 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't see why those databases wouldn't exist. I just have never looked for them. In my brief brush with the fiction world, it seems like the indie writer crowd is every bit as obsessive as the indie movie crowd.

If you find one, let me know.