Comments on: A good marketing campaign is hard to find http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=269 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:31:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bob Watson http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=269&cpage=1#comment-1078 Bob Watson Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:57:32 +0000 http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=269#comment-1078 And you can add Andre Norton to that crowd, Walt. And you can add Andre Norton to that crowd, Walt.

]]> By: walt crawford http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=269&cpage=1#comment-1075 walt crawford Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:55:32 +0000 http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=269#comment-1075 Holy c**p! And here I never knew that Carol Emshwiller, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Kate Wilhelm, Connie Willis, Esther Friesner and that crowd were all actually men in disguise. Checking a few current issues, I see that about a third of the stories in Asimov's and F&SF are by writers with names suggesting the female gender. I suppose it could be an affirmative action program, but I'd bet it's talent. As for that marketing campaign...well, I didn't know much about the publisher, but my respect has just gone down one huge step. Holy c**p! And here I never knew that Carol Emshwiller, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Kate Wilhelm, Connie Willis, Esther Friesner and that crowd were all actually men in disguise.

Checking a few current issues, I see that about a third of the stories in Asimov’s and F&SF are by writers with names suggesting the female gender. I suppose it could be an affirmative action program, but I’d bet it’s talent. As for that marketing campaign…well, I didn’t know much about the publisher, but my respect has just gone down one huge step.

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