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Horror publishers deny sexism charge
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/97844-horror-publishers-deny-sexism-charge.html
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the operative word is 'romance'- they just have a paranormal setting.
If they were true horror they would not have a place in the romance genre and vice versa...
Exactly Carol, but I just mentioned it as it was in the article and I just thought it irritating.
Do any Tbers write horror? If so, are they male or female?
It's a bit scary, edge of the seat sort of stuff, but aimed at 15-year-olds looking for something to replace their Twilight obsession, so no swearing, no out-and-out blood and guts. The really violent stuff generally happens 'off stage', and the reader only finds out about it afterwards. When there is some violence that happens 'on stage', I've tried to keep that from being too grisly. If I'd been writing this same series for adult readers, I might've gone a bit overboard with the gore, and I reckon it would've been the worse for it.
I got much of my reading taste from my dad, and he's always loved Stephen King, Dean Koontz, James Herbert, etc. I have a lot of horror books in my collection, and none of them are by female writers. I'm not sure that bothers me though.
Maybe it should considering I'm a female writer.
*SA*
Other than Poppy Brite, who can be particularly nasty I can't think of many, Anne Rice and Charlaine Harris are probably classed as horror, but they aren't what you would call 'nasty'. After that you get the likes of Kim Harrison and Laurell Hamilton who fall into the 'books on the horror shelf, but are really more supernatural' category.
I actually find a lot of modern horror dull and predictable.
Sorry Caro but that is wrong.
I know of one long term published M&B writer who is male, and I believe another author is actually a male/female partnership- too early to remember who at the moment.