From: toon@toon.com   
      
   On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:14:23 -0500, John VanSickle   
    wrote:   
      
   >> 2) Joanne Rowling is clearly a woman, and boys may well be put off by   
   >> a woman author. Indeed the publisher insisted on the androgynous form   
   >> J K Rowling.   
   >   
   >The gender of a book's author would never cause a fair-minded editor to   
   >reject the book.  Both the Hardy Boys series and the Nancy Drew series   
   >were written by a whole host of ghostwriters, all of whom used one   
   >pseudonym for the Hardy Boys series and another one for the Nancy Drew   
   >tales.  Both men and women wrote for both series.   
      
   Actually, this is an issue, and some women writers will go the initial   
   route to hide their gender identity so boys will read their stories.   
      
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