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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense. Still true 240 years on....
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Just a thought in the "if you want me to read your work, you need to write the things I want to read",comments. Isn't that the entire point here. These various women are writing all sorts of different types of...
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When one person went into NEMS music store asking for a record called 'My Bonnie'the owner said sorry, never heard of it. When a lot of people asked him, Brian Epstein went looking and launched The Beatles....
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Why are you more likely to buy a book you don't like by a female author? Trying to be more aware of the women out there and looking at their books doesn't mean you will pick up any more good...
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Here's another aspect of invisibility. I can find in my local chain bookstore great sff novels by Angela Carter, Sarah Hall, Susannah Clarke, Karen Joy Fowler, Helen Oyeyemi, Liz Jensen, Margaret Atwood etc. but not one of these are on...
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But as I pointed out, you're much more likely to have a male author put in front of you than a female author. So you're probably picking up and putting down a disproportionate number of books by men. That's even...
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What is your basis for asserting that different literature has different gender bias? Isn't it socialization that tells us that 'real' men don't wear pink, read romance, etc, rather than something inherent about a colour or genre? An example of...
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As the aforementioned 'nice man' I recognise the irony in my exchange with Judith earlier. I have for some time now actively sought to promote women authors in my blog, in conversation, at cons etc. It is demonstrably true that...

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Colin commented on Where Have All the Women Gone?
Unfortunately for proof reading, I really enjoyed your book and raced through it pretty quickly on holiday. I'm afraid I didn't take notes for corrections. The most common issue for me was what I perceived as missing words, rather than misspellings or homonyms. As for structural oddities, SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS Aisha's brother believes that the new interns are MI/Corps infiltrators, but that's not mentioned at all at the time of Aisha and Rama's return to Nevermore. SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS I didn't mean to offend with my comment....
Judith Tarr commented on Where Have All the Women Gone?
Readers like to score points by snarking at external aspects such as proofreading and editing. Generally authors grit their teeth and endure, but here, it points to one of the theses of my post, which is what women's work cannot be praised unreservedly. It must be diminished in some way. Your post hit a number of popular diminishment points: assumption of bad or no editing, accusation of bad or no proofreading, dismissal of publisher. The fact it was more thoroughly edited and more extensively revised and rewritten than all but a handful of my major-publisher publications, and has fewer errors...
Colin commented on Where Have All the Women Gone?
For what it's worth, I have praised your work repeatedly and enthusiastically to friends and family over the last week without mentioning my concerns about copy-editing or editing. I think my first comment here annoyed you, and I think I understand why. I apologise for that comment and for my misunderstandings within it. I absolutely did not intend to denigrate yourself or Book View Cafe and I am sorry that you felt/feel like I did. I will endeavour to be more careful in my expression and will try to spot unconscious bias in my judgements of women authors. I would...
Colin commented on Where Have All the Women Gone?
"felt/feel like I did" Meant "like you did"....
Judith Tarr commented on Where Have All the Women Gone?
Thank you. I'm really glad you like the book. In a ms. of almost 150K words, revised multiple times and heavily rewritten three times (the editor is a stone-hearted bitch and I love her and curse her in equal measure), a continuity glitch may happen. Or there may be a loose end that gets tied up in a sequel. :) You missed a bigger one: what happened to the gang at Starsend. But that's definitely a driver for the next book. Along with SPOILER and EXCISED FOR SPOILERIFICITY and REDACTED....

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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