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thistle in grey ([personal profile] thistleingrey) wrote in [personal profile] rachelmanija 2011-04-17 09:12 pm (UTC)

One more bestseller for recentish epic fantasy: Steven Erikson. One more anomaly: R. A. Salvatore, who is male yet uses the initials; most of the time nowadays it seems as though initials flag a covert woman.

2. Huh, interesting thought. When I knew people who read a lot of epic fantasy and/or a lot of sprawling fantasy series (Melanie Rawn's big books come to mind), most of them were male, but we were reading this stuff because we were in high school or early college and had the time to read big book after big book, or ten Zelazny titles in a week, or whatever.

3. I guess I'd want to line up male writers of urban fantasy as well, to compare big marketing pushes, but the only one who springs to mind and who has had a long enough career for comparisons is Charles de Lint. (T. A. Pratt--male--hasn't been publishing for long enough, IMO, and I have no idea how well marketed his books have been.)

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