[ SECRET POST #6209 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6209 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 (something about Crowley) - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Diana Wynne Jones wrote predominantly for younger audiences and her fiction wasn't particularly gendered in audience. UKLG famously wrote fiction for younger audiences although it's not exclusively what she wrote. And L'Engle is mostly known for children's fantasy.

Also, there's a long list of other women children's fantasy writers that you could absolutely come up with. I assume this list was just starfleetbrat going off the top of their head - there's tons of other examples. For instance I would go to Susan Cooper, Diane Duane, and Caroline Stevermer probably.

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ayrt
Then all those people on the Internet are mistaken. If those books' success is a rule and not an exception, and they don't have 'girly' covers, then I'm surprised that no one caught JKR on her lies. I swear I saw a lot of reputable articles stating that JKR had to get male pen name for more profit. I read it in printed articles even. I am not knowledgeable on the 90s UK publishing scene however The Worst Witch was definitely marketed to girls. This doesn't mean that your argument is wrong btw.

[(Anonymous)]

I responded to another post elsewhere, but basically - her publishers definitely thought that she needed to have a male pen name for popularity, but they might have been wrong or at least overstating how important it was.

[(Anonymous)]

You can hate her (I do too) without assuming malicious two-faced intent to everything she does. Just because you don't think she needed to use her initials to get popular doesn't mean she ~lied~ about thinking it was a good step to take (or, as said elsewhere, that it wasn't even her idea but her publisher's).

[(Anonymous)]

Well obviously it wasn’t her idea to change her name. The books were written by JK Rowling, not “Joe Nottaman.”

[(Anonymous)]

I read a... lot as a kid (like, a lot a lot, like my teachers told me not to bring my books to recess because that was "play with other kids" time) and didn't know who Diana Wynne Jones was until Howl's Moving Castle was made into a movie. My library only carried LeGuin's adult books, and my library was pretty big.

[(Anonymous)]

IDK. My libraries definitely carried all of those authors. I think my school library also carried some of them, but the public library definitely did.