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Had an interesting conversation on Twitter (shut up, that’s a real thing) the other day with another writer that started off with him asking this:
Quick sure type question: readers of SF/F/Horror/Spec Fic on my TL, how many books in those genres on your bookshelves are written by women?
— Troy L. Wiggins (@TroyLWiggins) August 25, 2014
Now, I’ve had this conversation and this exact thought before: either there are not enough women writing in those genres, or (vastly more likely) I’m not reading enough of their work. If I went through my shelves and started writing down names, I’d probably write down a couple dozen before running out of names. That’s not enough.
This isn’t why I’m bringing the conversation up on the blog, though. I literally couldn’t think of a single female author who qualified in my head as a “horror writer.” Not one. Lauren…
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