I was deep in the edits for the sixth Mak Vanderwall novel, Assassin, when a striking image by Lithuanian artist Natalie Shau stopped me dead.
The Count Is Out.
The Count’ is out. According to the latest statistics published today by VIDA, in 2011 we again saw a clear gender bias in the literary world – unconscious or otherwise…
Literary Gender Bias. The After-Blog.
It’s true that in every individual circumstance it can be argued that the novel by the male writer is the better one, and it may well be the case that year, or the next, or even the next. But over time, a bias becomes clear.
Are our Sisters In Crime (still) fighting against a male-dominated literary world?
(* This post has been transferred from my old website. Please excuse the formatting.) As mentioned in my last post, this past weekend Sisters in Crime held a rare and wonderful women crime writers' convention in Melbourne, called SheKilda. Why women? Why Sisters In...
Sisters In Crime gather at SheKilda
Sisters in Crime Australia formed 20 years ago, and this past weekend they held SheKilda Women Crime Writers’ Convention in Melbourne.