Homme de Plume: What I Learned Sending My Novel Out Under a Male Name
Sexism is alive and well in the publishing industry, which probably comes as a surprise to no one. After unsuccessfully attempting to publish under her female name, this writer tried
the same manuscript under a male name:
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Total data: George sent out 50 queries, and had his manuscript requested 17 times. He is eight and a half times better than me at writing the same book. Fully a third of the agents who saw his query wanted to see more, where my numbers never did shift from one in 25.
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