Snips
Do men write books any more? I know that as an aspiring writer myself, finding "fault" with the massive and growing number of women writers doesn't seem to make any sense. Yet when I am offered some newly published books by things like BookBub or BookPerk, inevitably I get either all-female or 90% female-written publications. There's nothing inherently wrong with that - except that I'm about 60-70% more likely to enjoy the books written by men. Why do I say that? As I've noted in this column before, more often than not, the books written by women: are first person; are first-person present tense; take too long to get to the point; involve multiple narrators and rapid switches from character to character; have a female "lead"; spend too much time in their heads. Now having written that, I can say that many male authors are more likely to do the character-switching and present-tense than would have been common 20-30 years ago. It's not in and of i
