If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.
I have always advised men to read.
I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
When I first started writing 'Still Missing,' I didn't actually realize I was writing a thriller. I thought it was more women's fiction, but during the many years of rewrites, I kept taking out the boring parts, and then my agent informed me that I had written a thriller.
I'd been a thriller reader all my life.
I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.
Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.