It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.
Real men read my books.
I think people underestimate the romance audience. It's everything from career women to high school girls to elderly women. I have male readers, too, especially for the Civil War books.
People are always thinking that I'm the main character in my books, but each one has been different, and sometimes they've been men.
I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.
It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.
I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.
I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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.