Re:‘George Eliot’ joins 24 female authors making debuts unde...
by watwut on Friday August 14, 2020 @07:19AM
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The claim toward J K Rowling was that the female name would be disadvantage. She was not told it is impossible to succeed with female name nor that no one ever succeeded, just that the chance is lower.
The romantic literature is outlier in this way - having female name is advantage.
Re:‘George Eliot’ joins 24 female authors making debuts unde...
by rsynnott on Friday August 14, 2020 @08:30AM
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The publisher may have effectively vetoed it, though; if you're an unpublished author, then what your publisher recommends can be very close to what your publisher dictates.
The romantic literature is outlier in this way - having female name is advantage.