So, yet another A to Z is over. It has been good to share my favourite authors and stories with you. I hope you have enjoyed them.
I have actually bought some ebooks of books I haven’t read in a long time. It will be nice to catch up with them.
When writing this, I have realised just how many amazing women spec fic writers there are and have been over the years. When I was growing up speculative fiction was mostly considered a thing for boys, but women were writing even then. Some were writing under male pen names, such as American writer James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon). She was born in1915, but she wasn’t outed as a woman till 1977. There is an award in her name.
Even J.K Rowling - Joanne Rowling - abbreviated her name, and she does write crime fiction under a male name, Robert Galbraith, though that slipped through till everyone knew who “he” was. But she is so famous that nobody worried about it.
I am going to binge on some re reads now, and I hope some of you have found a new writer or book to try out.
Thanks to my “regulars” who have been commenting throughout this challenge and welcome to new readers who have discovered my blog. I hope you will consider joining.
This is short, but I’m heading to the theatre tonight, to see Julius Caesar with the Bell Shakespeare Company. Tomorrow I have a ticket to a matinee at the Comedy Theatre.
See you soon!
