Nov. 7, 2022 — “From Sally Rooney to Raven Leilani, female novelists have captured the literary zeitgeist, with more buzz, prizes, and bestsellers than men,” writes Johanna Thomas-Corr in The Guardian
Monday Morning Magic from Inkandescent® PR + Publishing Co. — Today, we look at an emerging trend in the book publishing industry—the declining prominence of male executives running the show as more and more women replace them. This fact isn’t lost on journalists such as The Guardian’s Johanna Thomas-Corr and Irish Times reporter Finn McRedmond, who believes the reason for the shift is that women make up about 80% of those novel buyers.
“It follows, then, that it is perhaps likely that women like buying books written by women,” Finn muses, noting the increasing democratization of the publishing industry has also got something to do with it. “Publishing is no longer run from the very top by a small group of men. It is abundantly obvious that an industry dominated solely by men is more likely to favor the work of men, seeing them preferred over their female counterparts. But that women writers are enjoying such sustained prominence in the fiction market at the same time that more women are entering the publishing industry is further proof of this.” Click here to read more from Finn.
And click here to read the Fall 2022 issue of Inkandescent Women magazine, which features some of the female authors that I have had the privilege of writing about for Costco’s magazine, The Connection.
- Click here to read the most recent interview I did with bestselling authors Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan about their latest novel, “Mad Honey,” featured in the October 2022 issue of The Connection.
- Be sure to read the sidebar articles in this issue, where you will meet additional award-winning women authors whose books are as remarkable as they are.
- And click here to learn more about writer and artist Stephanie Ponder, who in 1996, hired me to become a freelance writer for Costco’s Connection. It has been an honor and privilege!
- Those articles can be found here.
Until next Monday: Here’s to the next book you read — may it be filled with ideas that transport you and birth fabulous new ideas. — Hope Katz Gibbs, founder, and president, Inkandescent® Inc. Inkandescent.us
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