Female American Writers Suck It Up in the Pink Collar Ghetto

Erica Jong has an instructive article in 4/9/07 Publisher's Weekly.

Link: http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6431248.html

The complaint is that American women writers are not taken seriously. The same complaint has been made against some writers' organizations such as MWA, but this year (2007) a number of women were nominated and won awards, so the wind blows from different directions, year by year.

I have a few nibbles for World of Mirrors. Foreign locales are still a hard sell. Last night I read a post on the late Ms Snark's blog (the blog is late, not Ms. Snark) from a writer who set a thriller in Mexico. Mexico was intrinsic to the story (duh!) and either an agent or an editor wanted him to set it in the states. Jingo bells! Jingo bells. Some editor once told Tony Hillerman to get rid of the indians. I am not making this up! So idiocy has no bounds. Well, as my dad always said, "it's a hard row to hoe." That it is.

Everyone has to suck it up sooner or later.

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