Although, rather than toss that out as an accusation, you might go the more diplomatic way and state it like "Here are some female authors I enjoy" 
I wrote that at close to 3 AM my time; I was a bit out of it at that point and I'm afraid diplomacy fails me when I have insomnia
I am currently reading what might be one of the better psychological/horror novels of 2009, Caitlín R. Kiernan's The Red Tree, and I am kicking myself for not reading this when I received a copy a couple of months ago. I'm only on the second chapter (or roughly 1/6 into the 380+ page novel), but the mood, the characterizations, the mixture of the real (Kiernan put some autobiographical details into this story, similar to what Elizabeth Hand did with her outstanding Generation Loss novel from 2007) and the unreal are just outstanding - if the story keeps pace, like I suspect that it will, this easily will be one of my favorite reads for 2009.
Sounds good. I am not in the market for books at the moment, but I will look into it at some point.
It's got a somewhat cheesy PR-ish cover, but the story is outstanding. It's been out for a month now in the US and is published by Roc.
But yet, books like Kiernan's are not being discussed here. A pity that I don't have more time available for this, but perhaps I can free up a few hours here and there over the course of the next few weeks and take a planned OF Blog feature on female authors and turn it into something that can be mirrored here.
Kiearnan is not a well known author. If you take a look at the current discussions on this board, you'll notice that most of the stuff is well selling stuff. There are quite a few people around who weren't regulars at OF, and they need to deFeist before going into the narrow fields you want them to go to. I understand the principle of not being patient, patience only leads to slower progress, but some stabilisation need to occur before major progress.
Well-known here, you mean, right? She sells decently, if I recall, and not every writer gets a Neil Gaiman and Clive Barker blurb on their books
After all, Kiernan is but one of several outstanding female authors currently writing today. On OF, I promoted Ekaterina Sedia's The Secret History of Moscow and The Alchemy of Stone (as well as conducting an interview with her). I think I was one of the earlier supporters of Sarah Monette there as well.
Try Academia. No personal pronouns if you can avoid them. However, if Kiernan is compared to Sedia and Monette, interest levels will likely increase a lot.
However, if Kiernan is compared to Sedia and Monette, interest levels will likely increase a lot. And to Mark Danielewski and Elizabeth Hand, I might add. Her writing is quality.
But there still needs to be more discussion of authors such as Margo Lanagan, whose works are often up for major SF/F awards (her most recent novel, Tender Morsels, is highly recommended by me), Catherynne M. Valente (perhaps I need to see about arranging an interview with her sometime in the near future), Anna Tambour, Theodora Goss, Elizabeth Bear, Octavia Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, and so many others.
But what about you? What current female authors would you say need to have more pimpage here?
Mary Gentle is still writing, right? There is way too little discussion on Kage Baker (I have unfortunately only read one book by her, so cannot do it myself yet). Then we have the usual suspects; Sedia, Moon, Swainston, Constantine, Carol Berg, Monette, LeGuin...
Not bad "usual suspects." Perhaps a few reviews in the coming months will help with the others I mentioned earlier.
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This board is severely lacking in discussion of female authors
- 12/09/2009 08:11:46 AM
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I think what you mean is this board is lacking in discussion of lesser-known authors...
- 12/09/2009 10:49:56 AM
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While part of that is true, part of it really deals with a thought when I glanced through the posts
- 12/09/2009 10:55:07 AM
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The world is severely lacking in famous female authors.
- 12/09/2009 02:53:03 PM
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Wanna bet?
- 13/09/2009 08:23:14 AM
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Incorrect.
- 15/09/2009 04:14:06 PM
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You might want to edit that...
- 15/09/2009 04:40:32 PM
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Actually, most of those authors are talked about on other boards and blogs
- 16/09/2009 12:22:46 AM
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... That doesn't actually change the truth-value of his statement. *NM*
- 16/09/2009 05:31:30 AM
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Is KJ Parker actually a woman?
- 16/09/2009 12:27:35 AM
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Probably.
- 16/09/2009 04:51:57 AM
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It is not uncommon in the publishing industry to pull tricks like that.
- 16/09/2009 11:19:04 AM
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female authors
- 12/09/2009 10:28:12 PM
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I discovered Morgan Llywellyn when I was in my late teens/early 20s
- 13/09/2009 08:24:15 AM
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None. Why in the world would you place a quota on gender? *NM*
- 12/09/2009 10:46:45 PM
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Who said anything about "quotas"?
- 13/09/2009 08:11:21 AM
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It can be inferred.
- 14/09/2009 12:45:18 AM
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it can only be inferred if you confuse the necessity employed.
- 19/09/2009 06:49:17 AM
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Mm.
- 19/09/2009 07:13:27 AM
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Everyone knows women can't write! They are by far inferior to men!
- 13/09/2009 01:42:16 AM
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- 13/09/2009 08:24:50 AM
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- 13/09/2009 08:24:50 AM
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Connie Willis, Susanna Clarke, Diana Wynne Jones, Megan Whalen Turner (to start with)
- 13/09/2009 01:47:17 PM
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I read mostly scfi these days and there just are not that many new female scfi writers
- 14/09/2009 04:28:31 PM
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Jaine Fenn and Liz Williams are two pretty decent recently-emerging SF writers. *NM*
- 15/09/2009 04:15:40 PM
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This post is severely lacking in discussion of male authors. *NM*
- 15/09/2009 04:42:23 PM
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