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Please add Susan Palwick to the database. I will be reading " Necessary Beggar" and will want to write a review.
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| This challenge gave me the spur to register here. A long time lover of SF (Patrick Troughton was my first doctor - ahem) but I was often frustrated by the limited roles females (and indeed anyone other than alpha males) played in many of the stories I read. Thank goodness times have changed (mostly) and there is so much more genre goodness to enjoy. I hadn't seen your list of female authors but will be using it in the future. Great to see the wonderful (and much mourned) Margaret Mahy there. Was surprised that Elizabeth Knox was not included. While I didn't warm to her most famous novel (The Vinter's Luck) but YMMV, I loved her Dreamhunter/Dreamquake novels (mature YA) and Daylight was a pretty decent vampire tale.
Anyway, sorry to ramble. I am keen to have a stab at this challenge and look forward to exploring some of these authors' work.
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Location: Dallas, Texas | kwaidan66 - 2012-12-31 7:34 PM Please add Susan Palwick to the database. I will be reading " Necessary Beggar" and will want to write a review. Thank you in advance, Jim Black She is added to the list. You know we have an insatiable lust for reviews so if you dangle one out there for us we'll move a little faster to get your request in. Thanks, Jim. |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | Shazzt - 2013-01-01 2:03 AM This challenge gave me the spur to register here. A long time lover of SF (Patrick Troughton was my first doctor - ahem) but I was often frustrated by the limited roles females (and indeed anyone other than alpha males) played in many of the stories I read. Thank goodness times have changed (mostly) and there is so much more genre goodness to enjoy. I hadn't seen your list of female authors but will be using it in the future. Great to see the wonderful (and much mourned) Margaret Mahy there. Was surprised that Elizabeth Knox was not included. While I didn't warm to her most famous novel (The Vinter's Luck) but YMMV, I loved her Dreamhunter/Dreamquake novels (mature YA) and Daylight was a pretty decent vampire tale. Anyway, sorry to ramble. I am keen to have a stab at this challenge and look forward to exploring some of these authors' work. Very glad to have you aboard, Shazzt! I've added Elizabeth Knox to the list and thanks for the title recommendations too. Good luck with your challenge and tell your friends! |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | Hey everyone, let's use this thread for author requests for the WoGF. I moved up from the general suggestions forum. Note: We're missing tons of authors and tons of books. In the interest of time, and my sanity, please save your author requests for those specific authors you're going to read going to read next. We've got a whole year to get in as many as we can and I'd rather focus on the ones that people are wanting to tag right away so they won't have to wait. Thanks for your patience! |
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| If Michelle Rowen(and her pseudonym Morgan Rhodes) could be added I will have a review up by tomorrow. |
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Location: Washington state | Since you mentioned above that Susan Palwick is on the list to be added, would you please add her novel "Shelter" while you're adding her? I'd like to include it for my challenge.
I'd also like to request Molly Gloss (many good books but specifically "Wild Life," which won that elusive Tiptree award) and Hiromi Goto (whose "The Kappa Child" also won a Tiptree.) If you get around to adding that awards list, they'll be added anyhow, but if the list doesn't get added for a while, I'd still like to read those two authors.
Another: Jessica Amanda Salmonson, whose trilogy - Tomoe Gozen, The Golden Nagata, and Thousand Shrine Warrior - from the 1980s is regarded as some of the finest alt-Japan fantasy/alternate history out there (and which is scowling at me from my shelf for neglecting it so long.)
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| Tantara - 2013-01-01 2:12 AM
...and Hiromi Goto (whose "The Kappa Child" also won a Tiptree.) If you get around to adding that awards list, they'll be added anyhow, but if the list doesn't get added for a while, I'd still like to read those two authors.
I've been wanting to read something by Hiromi Goto, so I would be grateful if you added her. |
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| I'm starting Ekaterina Sedia's Moscow But Dreaming today. . . if single-author short-story collections count toward this challenge, I'd love it if that could be added to her page!
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| I would love to see you add author Adrienne Kress. She has a new steampunk novel out, The Friday Society, that I am wanting to read and as it would be my first time reading her I would love to be able to count the book towards the challenge. |
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| Here are yet more significant and/or excellent women authors who could be added, along with a notable title by each:
Kathy Acker - Pussy, King of the Pirates
Joan Aiken - The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Kirsten Bakis - Lives of the Monster Dogs
Carol Berg - Flesh and Spirit
L. M. Boston - The Children of Green Knowe
A. S. Byatt - The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
Leonora Carrington - The Hearing Trumpet
Susan Cooper - Over Sea, Under Stone
Marie Corelli - The Sorrows of Satan
Pamela Dean - Tam Lin
Rikki Ducornet - Phosphor in Dreamland
Rivka Galchen - Atmospheric Disturbances
Angelica Gorodischer (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin) - Kalpa Imperial
P. C. Hodgell - God Stalk
Tove Jansson - Moominland Midwinter
Ellen Klages - Portable Childhoods
Madeleine L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Doris Piserchia - A Billion Days of Earth
Mary Renault - The King Must Die
Midori Snyder - The Innamorati
Nancy Springer - Larque on the Wing
Scarlett Thomas - Our Tragic Universe
Karin Tidbeck - Jagannath
Wendy Walker - The Secret Service
Sylvia Waugh - The Mennyms
Edith Wharton - The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
Jeanette Winterson - Sexing the Cherry
Additionally, could Kelly Link's collections be added - she's currently represented only by some anthologies in which she had a hand:
Stranger Things Happen
Magic for Beginners
Pretty Monsters
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| I would also recommend Terri Windling. The Wood Wife is one of the best folktale/fantasy novels I have ever read and more people need to discover her. |
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Location: UK | Engelbrecht - 2013-01-03 7:00 AM
Additionally, could Kelly Link's collections be added - she's currently represented only by some anthologies in which she had a hand:
Stranger Things Happen
Magic for Beginners
Pretty Monsters
Thanks!
I'd second these. I got two of them (I think) from the humble ebook bundle a couple of months ago. |
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| I feel like I'm being a pain, but could you also add Madeline Ashby. Her science fiction novel vN made a nice splash last year with some really good reviews and it is one I want to read this year. |
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| A few authors I'd like to see added:
Aliette de Bodard (Obsidian and Blood)
G. Willow Wilson (Alif the Unseen)
Erin Bow (Plain Kate)
Pearl North (Libyrinth)
Carol Berg (The Spirit Lens)
Jaclyn Dolamore (Magic under Glass)
Jane Lindskold (Through Wolf's Eyes)
Diana Peterfreund (Rampant)
Michelle (Sagara) West (The Broken Crown)
Elizabeth Wein (The Winter Prince)
Megan Whalen Turner (The Thief)
Rebecca Stead (When You Reach Me)
Sherwood Smith (Inda)
Jennifer Fallon (The Lion of Senet)
Sarah Monette (Melusine)
Pamela Dean (The Dubious Hills) |
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| Could you add the Kij Johnson short story collection: At the Mouth of the River Of Bees. I signed on to beg for the Kelly Link books, but see I have been trumped by a couple of other folks. Kij Johnson also has a novel called fox woman that could be added. |
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Location: Washington state | I have another request to add: I own and would really like to read/include "Alcestis" (historical fantasy) by Katharine Beutner, (first name spelling is correct as typed) so I'd love it if she could be added, please. |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | Wow! I knew we'd get lots of requests for new authors but so many so fast? We've got our work cut out for us. Here is the list of authors, including some specific book titles, that we've gotten so far. I hope I haven't missed any. They're in no particular order though I've moved a few to the top that I want to get to sooner rather than later. It'll take a long time to get through this list of 63 new authors and their books but we have the whole year ahead. I'll add any more requests you have to the list but you'll need to tell me specifically that you're currently reading a book if you want me to move it up the list so you can tag it for this month. Women of Genre Fiction Author List
============================================================= C. E. Murphy Mercedes Lackey Ekaterina Sedia
- Moscow But Dreaming Adrienne Kress
- The Friday Society Michelle Rowen (Morgan Rhodes) Susan Palwick
- Necessary Beggar
- Shelter Kelly Link
- Stranger Things Happen
- Magic for Beginners
- Pretty Monsters Kij Johnson
- At the Mouth of the River Of Bees Terri Windling
- The Wood Wife Madeline Ashby
- vN Elizabeth Knox
- The Vinter's Luck
- Dreamhunter
- Dreamquake
- Daylight Charlaine Harris Faith Hunter Jody Lynn Nye Kim Harrison Patricia Bray Rachel Caine Molly Gloss
- Wild Life Louise Lawrence
- Andra Hiromi Goto
- The Kappa Child Jessica Amanda Salmonson
- Tomoe Gozen
- The Golden Nagata
- Thousand Shrine Warrior Kathy Acker
- Pussy, King of the Pirates Joan Aiken
- The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Kirsten Bakis
- Lives of the Monster Dogs Carol Berg
- Flesh and Spirit
- The Spirit Lens L. M. Boston
- The Children of Green Knowe A. S. Byatt
- The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye Leonora Carrington
- The Hearing Trumpet Susan Cooper
- Over Sea, Under Stone Marie Corelli
- The Sorrows of Satan Pamela Dean
- Tam Lin
- The Dubious Hills Rikki Ducornet
- Phosphor in Dreamland Rivka Galchen
- Atmospheric Disturbances Angelica Gorodischer
- Kalpa Imperial P. C. Hodgell
- God Stalk Tove Jansson
- Moominland Midwinter Ellen Klages
- Portable Childhoods Madeleine L'Engle
- A Wrinkle in Time Doris Piserchia
- A Billion Days of Earth Mary Renault
- The King Must Die Midori Snyder
- The Innamorati Nancy Springer
- Larque on the Wing Scarlett Thomas
- Our Tragic Universe Karin Tidbeck
- Jagannath Wendy Walker
- The Secret Service Sylvia Waugh
- The Mennyms Edith Wharton
- The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton Jeanette Winterson
- Sexing the Cherry Aliette de Bodard
- Obsidian and Blood G. Willow Wilson
- Alif the Unseen Erin Bow
- Plain Kate Pearl North
- Libyrinth Jaclyn Dolamore
- Magic under Glass Jane Lindskold
- Through Wolf's Eyes Diana Peterfreund
- Rampant Michelle (Sagara) West
- The Broken Crown Elizabeth Wein
- The Winter Prince Megan Whalen Turner
- The Thief Rebecca Stead
- When You Reach Me Sherwood Smith
- Inda Jennifer Fallon
- The Lion of Senet Sarah Monette
- Melusine Katharine Beutner
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| Is this the correct place for requesting authors be added to the list for the challenge? If yes, then could this be clarified in the thread title? Or are you not wanting to encourage people to make suggestions. 
If I have come to the right place then I would like to humbly request that Leigh Bardugo be added. Following repeated recommendations I have just read her debut title Shadow and Bone, the first book in her YA trilogy. I believe the rights have been sold for a potential movie (link below) and you can see good things said about her book all over the net.
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/09/12/dreamworks-harry-pottershadow...
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Location: Michigan | I just finished my first book for the WoGF Challenge only to realize it wasn't listed! It is: Rider at the Gate by C. J. Cherryh. |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | Isis - 2013-01-06 12:06 PM Is this the correct place for requesting authors be added to the list for the challenge? If yes, then could this be clarified in the thread title? Or are you not wanting to encourage people to make suggestions. This is the right place and the title was not very informative. I've updated it to make it more obvious. Thanks for the suggestion. As you can see it didn't really stop anyone from adding to our list  If I have come to the right place then I would like to humbly request that Leigh Bardugo be added. I've added Leigh Bardugo to the list. |
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Location: Arizona | Please add Lynn Flewelling to the database. I'm reading Luck in the Shadows. Thanks! |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | In no particular order, here are some of the authors and novels requested here and elsewhere online. I hate to put in just one book by an author so I'll udually drop in a whole series when I can. @savagelit: you can tag Rider at the Gate now. Ekaterina Sedia
- Moscow But Dreaming
- The Secret History of Moscow C. J. Cherryh
- Rider at the Gate Adrienne Kress
- The Friday Society Susan Palwick
- The Necessary Beggar
- Shelter
- The Fate of Mice
- Flying in Place Kelly Link
- Stranger Things Happen
- Magic for Beginners
- Pretty Monsters Kij Johnson
- At the Mouth of the River Of Bees
- The Fox Woman
- Tales for the Long Rains Terri Windling
- The Wood Wife Madeline Ashby
- vN Elizabeth Knox
- The Vintner's Luck
- Black Oxen
- Daylight
- Dreamhunter
- Dreamquake Hiromi Goto
- The Kappa Child
- Half World
- Hopeful Monsters Rachel Aaron
- The Spirit Thief
- The Spirit Rebellion
- The Spirit Eater
- The Spirit War
- Spirit's End
- The Legend of Eli Monpress
- The Revenge of Eli Monpress More to come! |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | Jynnantonnyx has posted another batch of books:
C. E. Murphy
The Inheritors' Cycle
- The Queen's Bastard
- The Pretender's Crown
The Negotiator
- Heart of Stone
- House of Cards
- Hands of Flame
The Walker Papers
- Urban Shaman
- Thunderbird Falls
- Coyote Dreams
- Walking Dead
- Demon Hunts
- Spirit Dances
- Raven Calls
- Mountain Echoes
Worldwalker
- Truthseeker
- Wayfinder Mercedes Lackey
Elemental Masters
- The Fire Rose
- The Serpent's Shadow
- The Gates of Sleep
- Phoenix And Ashes
- The Wizard of London
- Reserved for the Cat
- Unnatural Issue
- Home from the Sea
- Elemental Magic
- Steadfast
Five Hundred Kingdoms
- The Fairy Godmother
- One Good Knight
- Fortune's Fool
- The Snow Queen
- The Sleeping Beauty
- Beauty and the Werewolf
Dragon Jousters
- Joust
- Alta
- Sanctuary
- Aerie |
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Location: SC, USA | When you get a chance could you add Leigh Brackett's The Ginger Star. It will be my Feb. book, so no big rush. Thanks.
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Location: Dallas, Texas | No problem, Rhonda. Its on the list now. Here's another new batch. Lynn Flewelling
Nightrunner
- Luck in the Shadows
- Stalking Darkness
- Traitor's Moon
- Shadows Return
- The White Road
- Casket of Souls Charlaine Harris
Sookie Stackhouse
- Dead Until Dark
- Living Dead in Dallas
- Club Dead
- Dead to the World
- Dead as a Doornail
- Definitely Dead
- All Together Dead
- From Dead to Worse
- Dead and Gone
- Dead in the Family
- Dead Reckoning
- Deadlocked
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- Grave Sight
- Grave Surprise
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| Hello! Please add Melissa Scott to the list. A few of her books:
Five-Twelfths of Heaven
Silence in Solitude
The Empress of Earth
Dreamships
Dreaming Metal
The Kindly Ones
She's also written for the Star Trek and Stargate franchises and won the John W. Campbell award for Best New Author in 1986.
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Location: Dallas, Texas | Bevers - 2013-01-11 4:49 PM Could you add Nobody's Princess by Esther Friesner? Thanks!
Friesner has been added to the new authors list. Thanks for the request. We'll get it in as soon as we can. Isotropica - 2013-01-12 2:31 PM Hello! Please add Melissa Scott to the list.
Melissa Scott is already in our database so you can add her to your challenge but we've only got 2 books from her. I've added the others to the list and we'll get them added ASAP. Bookkeeper - 2013-01-06 11:01 PM Please add Lynn Flewelling to the database. I'm reading Luck in the Shadows. Thanks!
Don deal. We just posted her 6 book Nightrunners series with Luck in the Shadows. Happy reading! Rhondak101 - 2013-01-10 6:25 PM When you get a chance could you add Leigh Brackett's The Ginger Star. It will be my Feb. book, so no big rush. Thanks. Rhonda
Hey Rhonda, your book in on our list to be added. I'll try and get a few more of her books while I'm at it. Is that book about Conan O'Brian perchance? |
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| I'd like to request Lilith Saintcrow be added to the list. She has a steampunk novel, The Iron Wyrm Affair. Alas, I've already read it so I can't use her for the challenge, but others could. |
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| Hi, I just finished my first book for the Women in Genre challenge, and you don't have it in your database: Catseye, by Andre Norton. Can you let me know when it's added? I wrote a post on my blog, so I can link it any time. Thanks!!! And yes, you do have your work cut out for you.....so many good women writers out there! |
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Location: Barnstaple, North Devon | A request was posted up-thread for G Willow Wilson's Alif the Unseen - I'm due to read this in the next couple of weeks and would prefer to include this on my 12 books
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| Requesting the addition of the books by Philippa Ballantine, Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel; and The Janus Affair: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel. |
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Location: UK | Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Colors of Space.Read it, went to review it as my first WoGF choice,and it wasnt there!Are we to publish the review in the very month we read the book? If so,if you cant add Colors in Space within this month I will be out of the challenge at once,I have 8 other books already marked to read the rest of this month,doubt if I can fit in another book :9 |
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| You have Juliet E McKenna in the database, but not the book 'The Thief's Gamble," which I am currently reading. =) |
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Location: Gunnison, Colorado | Greetings... Looking at this thread, I feel like I'm piling on, but I've been meaning to request The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Vol. 1 (and I'll second the call for Alif the Unseen). Now working on a post about Charlotte Perkins Gilman... |
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| Alif the Unseen would be great to have added--I just finished reading it and would like to post my review. |
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| Can you please add Kristin Cashore's _Graceling_? I've got my review written but nowhere to put it. Thanks! |
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| I feel like I'm piling on but I've got four more authors to request, all are urban fantasy.
Gini Koch ("Touched by an Alien")
Celia Jerome ("Trolls in the Hamptons")
Ann Aguirre ("Grimspace")
Jenn Bennett ("Kindling the Moon")
Thanks!
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Location: California | I'd like to second the request for Graceling. I'm reading it right now for the WoGF challenge. Thanks! |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | Here, have some books: Leigh Brackett
Skaith
- The Ginger Star
- The Hounds of Skaith
- The Reavers of Skaith Lilith Saintcrow
Bannon and Clare
- The Iron Wyrm Affair
- The Damnation Affair Andre Norton
Dipple
- Catseye
- Night of Masks G. Willow Wilson
- Alif the Unseen Philippa Ballantine and Tee Morris
A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences
- Phoenix Rising
- The Janus Affair Marion Zimmer Bradley
- The Colors of Space
Avalon (with Diana L. Paxson)
- The Forest House
- Lady of Avalon
- Priestess of Avalon
- Ancestors of Avalon
- Ravens of Avalon
- Sword of Avalon Juliet E. McKenna
Tales of Einarinn
- The Thief's Gamble
- The Swordsman's Oath
- The Gambler's Fortune
- The Warrior's Bond
- The Assassin's Edge
Aldabreshin Compass
- Southern Fire
- Northern Storm
- Western Shore
- Eastern Tide Esther Friesner
Helen of Troy
- Nobody's Princess
- Nobody's Prize
Nefertiti
- Sphinx's Princess
- Sphinx's Queen
Himiko
- Spirit's Princess
- Spirit's Chosen Melissa Scott
Silence Leigh
- Five-Twelfths of Heaven
- Silence in Solitude
- The Empress of Earth This should do it for Rhondak101, MontanaSky, bookgirl, Graham Vingoe, ambyr (and others), MontanaSky (again) , dustydigger and Skynjay. Scott Laz, Rhetori_Cat, bstanley52 and ersandoval, I've got your requests on the to do list now. Also, a quick welcome to all our new members! Glad you found us online and good luck with your challenge. More books coming soon. |
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| Some more requests, all POC/non-white authors, no particular rush for me:
Karin Lowachee -- she's already in your database, but you're missing Burndive (which is book #2 of a trilogy; you already have books #1 & #3) and The Gaslight Dogs.
Michelle Sagara -- you don't have any books by her, under any of her names (Michelle Sagara, Michelle West, and Michelle Sagara West). The first books of her various series are Into the Dark Lands, Hunter's Oath, The Broken Crown, The Hidden City, Cast in Shadow, and Silence.
Alaya Dawn Johnson -- you don't have any books by her; the first novels in her series are Racing the Dark, Moonshine, and, coming out this year, The Summer Prince.
Nisi Shawl -- not in your database; her only book to date is the short story collection Filter House.
Larissa Lai -- not in your database; When Fox is a Thousand and Salt Fish Girl.
Angelica Gorodischer -- an Argentinian author not in your database; thus far her only book translated into English is Kalpa Imperial, but she has another coming out in a couple weeks from Small Beer Press called Trafalgar.
Cynthia Leitich Smith -- though she writes mostly realistic YA, Tantalize is an urban fantasy novel.
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Location: Dallas, Texas | Nom, nom, nom.... Carol Berg
Rai-Kirah
- Transformation
- Revelation
- Restoration
Bridge of D'Arnath
- Son of Avonar
- Guardians of the Keep
- The Soul Weaver
- Daughter of Ancients
Lighthouse Duet
- Flesh and Spirit
- Breath and Bone
Collegia Magica
- The Spirit Lens
- The Soul Mirror
- The Daemon Prism Carol Emshwiller
- The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Vol 1
- The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Vol 2 Carol Berg was a request upline somewhere, Engelbrecht perhaps, and it turns out she's a WWEnder too so we had to get her stuff in there! The other Carol is for you, Scott. PhoenixFalls, your authors are added to the list. MontanaSky, you've very welcome! |
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| I'm not really sure if she would be classed as a fantasy author or a writer of historical novels, but I wondered if Jean M. Auel could be added to the list for her Earths Children books, eg Clan of the Cave Bear etc.
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Point of Hopes (with Lisa Barnett)
Point of Knives
Point of Dreams (also with Lisa Barnett)
She also co-wrote "Lost Things" with Jo Graham. Could that be added as well?
(Sorry! I meant this as a reply to the Melissa Scott entry posted above. Still learning my way around.)
Also, could Andrea K. Hst "And All the Stars" be added? I have a review ready.
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Location: Dallas, Texas | More books than you can shake a stick at... Jody Lynn Nye
An Unexpected Apprentice
- An Unexpected Apprentice
- A Forthcoming Wizard
Dreamland
- Waking in Dreamland
- School of Light
- The Grand Tour Patricia Bray
Chronicles of Josan
- The First Betrayal
- The Sea Change
- The Final Sacrifice
The Sword of Change
- Devlin's Luck
- Devlin's Honor
- Devlin's Justice Faith Hunter
Rogue Mage
- Bloodring
- Seraphs
- Host
Skinwalker / Jane Yellowrock
- Skinwalker
- Blood Cross
- Mercy Blade
- Raven Cursed
- Death's Rival
- Blood Trade Kim Harrison
The Hollows
- Dead Witch Walking
- The Good, the Bad, and the Undead
- Every Which Way But Dead
- A Fistful of Charms
- For a Few Demons More
- The Outlaw Demon Wails
- White Witch, Black Curse
- Black Magic Sanction
- Pale Demon
- A Perfect Blood
- Ever After Eowyn Ivey
- The Snow Child Thanks to jynnanntonnyx for the data entry. @burninglove: I think Jean M. Auel is considered historical fiction but if you want me to add them I'm cool with that. We bend the genre rules all over the place. What say you all? Anybody else want to weigh in on Auel? @Ann Walker: I've added those books to the to do list and I'll try and get And All the Stars up in the next couple days so you can tag it and post your review. @JDowds: The Diviners in on the to do list now. |
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| Could Andre Norton's Here Abide Monsters be added, please? I have a review to post!
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| Margo Lanagan: you have Tender Morsels, but you don't have The Brides of Rollrock Island (an expansion of a WFA-winning novella). Surprisingly, you also don't have her double-WFA-winning collection, Black Juice. Her collection Red Spikes was also WFA-nominated. |
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| Hi there,
Some of N.K. Jemisin's works are listed, but could you add The Killing Moon? Thanks! |
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Location: Lithuania | First of all, this list is a great idea!
I was surprised not to find P. C. Hodgell - God Stalk trilogy, as suggested by Engelbrecht. She is one of the jewels yet to be discovered for some and appreciated by many fantasy lovers.
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Location: Rockford, IL | P.N. Elrod appears to be missing from the Women's list, too - she wrote the Jack Fleming, vampire detective books. |
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Location: Chicago | Hi! New user here. This challenge is what spurred me to make an account!
May I suggest adding Jane Gaskell? Here is a list of her books on Goodreads. China Miville posted a quote from one of her novels on his blog today and piqued my interest in her writing. I would add Strange Evil and her Atlan series books (I'd love to read the first one, The Serpent, for this challenge).
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Location: Dallas, Texas | shanaqui - 2013-01-25 7:59 AM Could Andre Norton's Here Abide Monsters be added, please? I have a review to post! Hey shanaqui, I've moved Here Abide Monsters to the top of my list so look for that in the next few days. Wastrel - 2013-01-25 3:01 PM Margo Lanagan: you have Tender Morsels, but you don't have The Brides of Rollrock Island(an expansion of a WFA-winning novella). Surprisingly, you also don't have her double-WFA-winning collection, Black Juice. Her collection Red Spikes was also WFA-nominated. Those are on our list now. Don't be too surprised at what we're missing. We built the site around the awards to begin with so we're skewed towards the male authors quite heavily. The WoGF is part of our effort to correct the imballance. We're getting better with all these recomendations but it just takes time. Thanks! SarahPi - 2013-01-25 9:11 PM Hi there, Some of N.K. Jemisin's works are listed, but could you add The Killing Moon? Thanks! Done and done. I just added The Killing Moon and The Shadowed Sun a few days ago so we now have all her books. Enjoy! Zoori - 2013-01-27 7:51 AM First of all, this list is a great idea! I was surprised not to find P. C. Hodgell - God Stalk trilogy, as suggested by Engelbrecht. She is one of the jewels yet to be discovered for some and appreciated by many fantasy lovers. Thanks. Thanks! I'm glad you found your way to WWEnd. See comment above about surprises We have God Stalk and Dark of the Moon on the do list. Both are noms for the Mythopoetic Award which is one of our top priorities since it will help us with WoGF authors a great deal. See the conversation about the Mytho here. controuble - 2013-01-30 8:24 AM P.N. Elrod appears to be missing from the Women's list, too - she wrote the Jack Fleming, vampire detective books. I've got the Vampire Files on the to do list now, thanks. 12 volumes! oddrid - 2013-02-01 2:17 PM Hi! New user here. This challenge is what spurred me to make an account! May I suggest adding Jane Gaskell? Here is a list of her books on Goodreads. China Miville posted a quote from one of her novels on his blog today and piqued my interest in her writing. I would add Strange Evil and her Atlan series books (I'd love to read the first one, The Serpent, for this challenge ). Thanks! Welcome to WWEnd and the WoGF! I've not heard of Jane Gaskell before so thanks for the suggestion. I've got the Atlan Saga, Strange Evil and King's Daughter on the to do list now. Thanks everyone for the author and book suggestions. We'll get another batch added as soon as we can. |
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Location: France | I am thinking of reading the following for the challenge if it can be added to the DB please
Susan Beth Pfeffer - The Last Survivors - Life As We Knew It
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| Please add Cassandra Rose Clarke and her book The Mad Scientist's Daughter. Thank you so much! |
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| Those are on our list now. Don't be too surprised at what we're missing. We built the site around the awards to begin with so we're skewed towards the male authors quite heavily. The WoGF is part of our effort to correct the imballance. We're getting better with all these recomendations but it just takes time. Thanks!
Oh, I'm not surprised in general - I'm surprised specifically because Black Juice won not one but two World Fantasy Awards but wasn't on your list.
I can understand you not including books just because a story in them won a WFA - it would be nightmarish to work out which stories were in which collection accurately (and then what about stories incorporated into novels?) - but I really do think that you ought to - not as part of this WOGF project, but just as part of the basic 'list of award-winning books' project - include winners/nominees of Anthology and Collection awards as well as just Best Novel. Collection, at the very least, since it's not even always clear what's a collection and what's a novel! [Quite a few award-winning novels are really linked short-story collections.] |
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| If the Tiptree award winners were added, we'd have lists less skewed toward white men. There would be more diversity of choice. |
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| Please add Carmilla Voiez to the database, writer of horror and dark fantasy. http://www.amazon.com/Carmilla-Voiez/e/B00AMZKZ5I/ref=ntt_athr_dp_p... |
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| #bookishgal I think a lot of them are already in the db. Some are stories which is a problem for this site to handle. |
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| Seems like there might be enough new novels on the list to make looking into the Tiptree list worthwhile. I was surprised by some of the male names and books listed.
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| I just glanced at the wikipedia page and assumed any title not in quotation marks and with publisher info was a novel. That might have been misleading.
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| I think you are right about the quotation marks. At least it hold true for Le Guin. But a lot of the novels have won for other things that are in WWE and the winners for the last 2 years are in anyway. I count at least 15 winners that are in the db already. |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | Hello all. I'm going to try and catch up a little on this thread. If you scroll up to my last post on the 2nd you'll be at the last point that I felt worth a damn. I had a gnarly cold that put me down the last few weeks but I'm starting to feel human again and will hopefully make some headway on this to do list soon. dihenydd - 2013-02-04 5:26 PM I am thinking of reading the following for the challenge if it can be added to the DB please Susan Beth Pfeffer - The Last Survivors - Life As We Knew It I've got Pfeffer's Last Survivors series on the list now, thanks. And welcome to WWEnd! Graham Vingoe - 2013-02-06 5:09 AM We've already got Liz Jensen on the list but she has a new novel out called the Uninvited which I've been so desperate to get hold of that I'm borrowed a large-print version from our library rather than wait for the paperback! The Uninvited is on the list now, Graham, and boy does it sound creapy as all hell! I'm looking forward to your review. A seven-year-old girl puts a nail-gun to her grandmother''s neck and fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the world, children are killing their families. Is violence contagious? Hesketh Lock is tasked with finding out. Part psychological thriller, part dystopian nightmare, The Uninvited is a powerful and viscerally unsettling portrait of apocalypse in embryo. Carl V. - 2013-02-06 8:56 PM Please add Cassandra Rose Clarke and her book The Mad Scientist's Daughter. Thank you so much!
No problem, Carl. We're on it. Wastrel - 2013-02-07 12:45 PM Oh, I'm not surprised in general - I'm surprised specifically because Black Juice won not one but two World Fantasy Awards but wasn't on your list. I can understand you not including books just because a story in them won a WFA - it would be nightmarish to work out which stories were in which collection accurately (and then what about stories incorporated into novels?) - but I really do think that you ought to - not as part of this WOGF project, but just as part of the basic 'list of award-winning books' project - include winners/nominees of Anthology and Collection awards as well as just Best Novel. Collection, at the very least, since it's not even always clear what's a collection and what's a novel! [Quite a few award-winning novels are really linked short-story collections.]
Collections and anthologies are something that I'm rather eager to get to but right now we have our hands full just dealing with novels. Still several awards we want to get in first before we branch out of the novel categories. We do put in lots of collections and anthos, especially if requested, but there's much to be done before we can shift our focus for the awards and lists. Carmilla - 2013-02-12 4:37 AM Please add Carmilla Voiez to the database, writer of horror and dark fantasy.
Thanks for the request and welcome to WWEnd, Carmilla! bookishgal - 2013-02-10 2:28 PM If the Tiptree award winners were added, we'd have lists less skewed toward white men. There would be more diversity of choice.
booksihgal, justifiedsinner and JamesVirgil: Tiptree is on the shortlist of awards especially since it will also support the WoGF - much like the Mythopoetic Award that we're working towards now. We'll have to find a way to deal with the short stories in the list but I'm sure we can come up with a solution when the time comes. |
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| Hi, I was wondering if you could add Sherri S Tepper's True Game Omnibus which is the first in the series of three anthologies, and contains the novels King's Blood Four, Necromancer Nine, and Wizard's Eleven? I am reading it for the challenge. The True Game novels were her first published works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper
http://www.amazon.com/True-Game-Sheri-S-Tepper/dp/0441003311
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Location: France | Administrator - 2013-02-12 6:48 AM
I've got Pfeffer's Last Survivors series on the list now, thanks. And welcome to WWEnd!
Thanks for the welcome hope you are feeling much better soon.
I have a review ready to post for this novel but still can't find the author in the DB. I have tried the search facility and just browsed the list of women authors. No luck though - am I overlooking something? |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | dihenydd - 2013-02-13 4:58 PM Thanks for the welcome hope you are feeling much better soon. I have a review ready to post for this novel but still can't find the author in the DB. I have tried the search facility and just browsed the list of women authors. No luck though - am I overlooking something? Oh, I should have been more clear! I've got Pfeffer's Last Survivors series on my lengthy to do list. She has not yet been added to the site. I'm feeling much better, thanks, so I hope to post a batch of new authors/books this weekend and Pfeffer should be in that group since you've got your review ready.
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| You guys are busy. When do you get time to read? |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | JamesVirgil - 2013-02-13 8:10 PM You guys are busy. When do you get time to read? Heh! Wherever I can! I've ended up giving up about 2/3 of my reading time to work on the site but I've dropped some other hobbies to compensate for it a bit and I tend to gravitate towards shorter books now so I can dip into more authors. But you know, the next best thing to reading books is talking about them and there are other benefits gained in the trade off like all the great people from around the world I've met through WWEnd. It's a lot of work but I'm still having fun! |
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Location: The Wilds of Washington | Hello Hello. Diana Wynne Jones. You have her in the database and I'd like to read Howl's Moving Castle this month, which isn't in the database. If possible. |
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| There's a great film version by Hayao Miyazaki if you haven't seen it. Definitely makes me want to read the book sometime. |
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Location: UK | @ Galleyangel - I too am a Wynne Jones fan.I loved Howl's Moving Castle,with its quirky humour.For most of the book the young heroine is under a spell,and has been turned into a middle aged woman with arthritic knees! lol.I also enjoyed her Guide to Fantasyland which so slyly and humorously showed up all those tropes and cliches of fantasy writers' books.Should be required reading for all would be fantasy authors,to help them avoidthe pitfalls |
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Location: The Wilds of Washington | Justifiedsinner & dustydigger - Read it. Couldn't put it down. Do you call a woman in her 90ies middle-aged? I'd say this is a perfect novel if you wanted to learn the art of book to movie. See the movie, read this, and you can really see how the script was formed.
Admin. Howl seems to be the first of three books. The House of Many Ways is a direct sequel and Booklist says about Many Ways: Its been a long time coming, but Jones has finally returned to the madcap world of Howls Moving Castle (1986) and Castle in the Air (1991) with an equally rollicking, enchantment-filled tale. I guess Castle is set in the same universe. Great, another three for you. |
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Location: Rockford, IL | You have Karen Miller, but seem to be missing Jennifer Fallon and Trudi Canavan. |
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| @gallyangel. I had no heard of the "Castle in the Sky" novel, presumably this is different from the Miyazaki film which was done much earlier than Howl's. |
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Location: Washington state | You have Caitlin R. Kiernan in the database but don't have many of her works. I'm currently reading The Drowning Girl and would like to post a review when I'm done, so I'd like to request it be added, please.
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Location: Austria | Tantara - 2013-02-19 2:40 AM
You have Caitlin R. Kiernan in the database but don't have many of her works. I'm currently reading The Drowning Girl and would like to post a review when I'm done, so I'd like to request it be added, please.
I'll second that request. The Drowning Girl is very high on my to-read list and if it's added to the database, I'll definitely review it for the challenge .
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Location: Dallas, Texas | dihenydd - 2013-02-04 5:26 PM I am thinking of reading the following for the challenge if it can be added to the DB please Susan Beth Pfeffer - The Last Survivors - Life As We Knew It Susan Beth Pfeffer
Life as We Know It
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The World We Live In gallyangel - 2013-02-15 4:36 AM Hello Hello. Diana Wynne Jones. You have her in the database and I'd like to read Howl's Moving Castle this month, which isn't in the database. If possible. and @justifiedsinner and @dustydigger: On the to do list. Really love the movie! Tantara - 2013-02-18 8:40 PM You have Caitlin R. Kiernan in the database but don't have many of her works. I'm currently reading The Drowning Girl and would like to post a review when I'm done, so I'd like to request it be added, please. and @Linguana: Perfect timing for this request! The Drowning Girl was just nominated for the Nebula. Must be good. Some other books requested somewhere: Susan Cooper
The Dark is Rising
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The Dark is Rising
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Tantara - 2013-02-18 8:40 PM You have Caitlin R. Kiernan in the database but don't have many of her works. I'm currently reading The Drowning Girl and would like to post a review when I'm done, so I'd like to request it be added, please. and @Linguana: Perfect timing for this request! The Drowning Girl was just nominated for the Nebula. Must be good.
I started reading it yesterday and I'm already halfway done. It is SO good.
This challenge has been fantastic so far. It's only February and I've already discovered a few authors that have completely blown me away. |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | I started reading it yesterday and I'm already halfway done. It is SO good. This challenge has been fantastic so far. It's only February and I've already discovered a few authors that have completely blown me away. That's good to hear! Your experience is pretty much exactly the experience we wanted people to have. It's always exciting to try somebody new and find a new favorite. Have you read your random pick yet? |
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Have you read your random pick yet?
No, not yet. I have so many women authors on my TBR that are new to me, my list is almost full. But I am keeping that one spot for the random author open. After all, the year has only just started. I'll be looking out for all the women writers that will be added and probably have my boyfriend pick a random one for me. |
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| I've finished Libba Bray's _A Great and Terrible Beauty_ (first of the Gemma Doyle trilogy), and I'd love to post a review if you could add it to her page. Thanks! |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | Here, have some books.... Ann Aguirre
Sirantha Jax:
- Grimspace
- Wanderlust
- Doubleblind
- Killbox
- Aftermath
- Endgame
Diana Wynne Jones
Howl's Moving Castle:
- Howl's Moving Castle
- Castle in the Air
- House of Many Ways
Meredith Ann Pierce
The Darkangel Trilogy:
- The Darkangel
- A Gathering of Gargoyles
- The Pearl of the Soul of the World
The Firebringer Trilogy:
- Birth of the Firebringer
- Dark Moon
- The Son of Summer Stars
P. C. Hodgell
Chronicles of the Kencyrath:
- God Stalk
- Dark of the Moon
- Seeker's Mask
- To Ride a Rathorn
- Bound in Blood
- Honor's Paradox
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| Hey, will Here Abide Monsters (Andre Norton) be added soon? I read it (and asked for it to be added) in January and as far as I can see it hasn't been added. I've got a review ready to upload -- I wrote it back in January -- so it'd be good if I could add it soon. |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | shanaqui - 2013-02-25 3:51 PM Hey, will Here Abide Monsters (Andre Norton) be added soon? I read it (and asked for it to be added) in January and as far as I can see it hasn't been added. I've got a review ready to upload -- I wrote it back in January -- so it'd be good if I could add it soon. My bad! I'll get that one added to the next batch. Thanks for your patience. |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | Found a minute to get this one in. Sorry for the wait. 
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| While we are checking on books posted in the past, are these in the queue yet?
Gini Koch ("Touched by an Alien")
Celia Jerome ("Trolls in the Hamptons")
Jenn Bennett ("Kindling the Moon")
Thanks for adding Ann Aguirre today!
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| Joanna Russ is something of an icon in feminist SF. You are missing 2 of her novels "We Who Are About To.." (1977) and "The Two of Them" (1978). On the non-fiction side she wrote the well-regarded "How to Suppress Women's Writing". |
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| I second Michelle (Sagara) West! I really want to read The Hidden City. |
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| Ooh, and James Tiptree Jr! One of those authors I've always meant to read, but haven't gotten to her yet. Thanks for this awesome challenge -- I'm new to the site, and it really drew me in. Can't resist! |
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| I re-posted the comment I have on Women and Fantasy on Library Thing which caused quite a stir there. I also mentioned the WoGF challenge. It did elicit some criticism of WWE for the number of books missing. I have explained that you only have a small number of people adding books and don't allow users to enter their own books yet. The author author Janny Wurts was somewhat miffed that only 3 of her books are included and those co-authored with a man. She also exclaimed at the omission of Janet Morris. For anyone who's interested this is the link:
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| Wow, my opinion of Janny Wurts just actually went down for that. Someone can't get as far as reading the FAQ...
"Why is my favorite author not in your database? What kind of site are you running here?!
This is one of the most asked questions we get, often in angry or accusatory tones. The simple answer is that your favorite author was not nominated for any of the awards or book lists we currently cover. That's it. There's no conspiracy to defraud your favorite of their rightful place in the annals of SF/F/H.
As we add more awards we'll be adding more authors along with them. Please be patient and try to understand that data collection is time consuming and often difficult. We like to think that with over 1,200 authors to choose from you might find a new favorite if you look around a bit."
Oh look! A site is doing something with plans to encourage people to read books by female authors they weren't familiar with, also allowing for more female authors to be added to their database. Let's get really angry because they don't have MY books! |
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Location: France | I am so unbelievably grateful that I found this site and this challenge. There are tons of authors missing - there always will be until people stop writing but I am amazed at the achievements of what I am assuming is a small number of people working for nothing in their own time to make life easier for me to explore a genre I love. |
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| I don't think that makes Wurts' comments that much better. A quick look around would show that they've been adding books by female authors in general only since January, and the smartest thing to do would probably be, instead of chelping about it on another forum, signing up and suggesting some more books to add. Including her own.
Srsly, it's not that difficult a concept. Oh, a book I want to read/think should be included isn't here. Do I a) yell about it to other people somewhere else or b) sign up and help the site expand their database?
It mostly surprises me that she's aware of the issues surrounding SF/F and female authors, but then doesn't connect "women don't get published as easily" with "women don't win awards as easily" with "this site only added award nominees/winners pre-January 2013". It's not so much the site's problem then, unless they weren't doing anything to address it. And they are. Isn't that what this challenge is about?
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Location: Dallas, Texas | Well, let's all cop a squat and roundly drek on the honest efforts of a handful of fans, and their growing community of followers, to build a site that celebrates genre fiction. Forget that this is a spare time hobby and that we're making a massive effort to improve the site in regards to equal coverage of women authors. Forget that we initiated a reading challenge with the expressed intent to shed light on that inequality and to engage our members in a constructive effort to promote ALL women authors. Forget that we've committed ourselves to adding any missing authors or books that our members request to our database in addition to our usual author and book updates. Forget that we're on pace to have well over 500 quality reviews of books by women authors for the challenge alone. Clearly we're just a bunch of assholes trying to keep Janny Wurts down. How dare we not have every frelling book by every frelling author in our database! My, oh, my. There's a lot of anger in that thread and some of it is affecting me. I'm going to go chill for a bit then I'll mosey on over to Library Thing and pose a few questions to our detractors. |
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I hate when people complain (and not even to the people who might make a difference) rather than trying to be part of the solution. It looks like someone explained the reasons that her umpteen books and those of others aren't all listed, but I don't see it completely sinking in in any practical way on that end. |
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I didn't mean to stir things up by my post. I was hoping to promote the challenge as part of a general discussion on women and genre fiction. I think the initiative is great. I think Wurtz's anger is more a reaction to the state of genre publishing. I don't think she realises that the effort is ongoing to include women's authors and that this enhancement to the site only started two months ago.
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Location: Gunnison, Colorado | I'm afraid to look at that thread! I was actually wondering if something like this might happen at some point, since the issue of gender in SF has been fraught for a long time, and discussions often seem to devolve into making assumptions about the motives of others in the conversation. You never know when you might unintentionally step into something. I made a comment on an SF Signal post a few days back expressing some disappointment about how the Nebula nominees have been trending more toward fantasy and away from SF over the years (a factual observation), and someone soon added a snarky comment about how the novel nominees were "girly" this year, which then led to a huge pile-on against SF fans who don't like women writers (!). (The criticism of the gender-biased comments was deserved, but I thought it was interesting that an SF vs. F discussion morphed almost immediately into male writers/fans vs. female writers/fans, when there's no necessary connection between those two dichotomies.) There are very important issues surrounding gender bias in SFF and publishing, but unfortunately the internet, which could be (and sometimes is) a chance to educate people about such issues, also lends itself to the proliferation of knee-jerk responses and judgments.
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Location: Dallas, Texas | Thanks everyone for the support. I guess some people don't get it. Hell, I thought we were doing something pretty cool with this challenge. Or I should say that our members were. We just set up the situation and you guys and gals have been killing it with the reviews and the blog posts and the book requests etc. Ya'll have taken it to a whole new level. It seems a bit silly to take us to task for not having every book and every female author there is but I guess it's easier to neg when you don't know the whole story than to try and support somebody else's effort in the same direction. I think we're all in this together, no? Well, while all the snark was going on over on LT we were busy adding more women authors and books: Evangeline Walton
Mabinogi
- Prince of Annwn
- The Children of Llyr
- The Song of Rhiannon
- The Island of the Mighty: aka The Virgin and the Swine
Libba Bray
Gemma Doyle
- A Great and Terrible Beauty
- Rebel Angels
- The Sweet Far Thing
Liz Jensen
The Uninvited
Cassandra Rose Clarke
Ananna and Naji
- The Assassin's Curse
- The Pirate's Wish
The Mad Scientist's Daughter
Jane Gaskell
Atlan Saga
- The Serpent
- Atlan
- The City
- Some Summer Lands
Strange Evil
King's Daughter
Margo Lanagan
The Brides of Rollrock Island
Black Juice
Red Spikes
Molly Gloss
Outside the Gates
The Dazzle of Day
Wild Life
Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Tomoe Gozen
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- The Golden Naginata
- Thousand Shrine Warrior
Leigh Bardugo
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Location: France | I have just started reading Clutch by J. A. Hutch any chance this could be added next time you update please.
I found a whole slew of women authors I didn't know of from a Women Authors in Science Fiction List on Goodreads btw. |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | justifiedsinner - 2013-02-28 12:42 PM @Dave Excellent post on LT! Thanks, justifiedsinner. I had to step back and chill for a bit before I was ready to reply. She responded back with a very nice post so we're all good now. Gender issues are mostly an academic excercise for a guy like me. I recognize that they exist and I try to do my part to help when I can but I'm not living them like Wurts has for her whole career. That's gotta take a toll. |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | While we're at it, here are some more books and authors.... Sanders Anne Laubenthal
Excalibur
Gini Koch
Alien Series
- Touched by an Alien
- Alien Tango
- Alien in the Family
- Alien Proliferation
- Alien Diplomacy
- Alien vs. Alien
Celia Jerome
Willow Tate
- Trolls in the Hamptons
- Night Mares in the Hamptons
- Fire Works in the Hamptons
- Life Guards in the Hamptons
- Sand Witches in the Hamptons
Jenn Bennett
Arcadia Bell
- Kindling the Moon
- Summoning the Night
- Binding the Shadows
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| Woohoo! Thanks for the add. Looking forward to reading these! |
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| First, thank you for everything you've done for making this challenge possible. I'm learning a lot about female authors, and I'm picking up books that I wouldn't have otherwise. This challenge is great.
Could you please add Wen Spencer to your database? She wrote the Elfhome series: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/26546.Wen_Spencer
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Location: Chicago, IL | Can you add Emma Newman to the list (http://angryrobotbooks.com/our-authors/emma-newman/). Thanks! |
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| I just picked up A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan. Can I count this toward the Challenge? I notice that Brennan is on the list.
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Location: The Wilds of Washington | I read Madeleine L'Engle's A wrinkle in time for this month's book. You have it listed as the first of four books. I've discovered it's a quintet instead of quartet. Wrinkle in Time, Wind in the Door, Swiftly Titling Planet, Many Waters, and the fifth is An Acceptable Time. If you'd of asked me a year ago, I would've thought the thing was a trilogy. |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | Hey, look! Books! Janny Wurts
Wars of Light and Shadow
Arc I
- Curse of the Mistwraith
Arc II
- Ships of Merior
- Warhost of Vastmark
Arc III - Alliance of Light
- Fugitive Prince
- Grand Conspiracy
- Peril's Gate
- Traitor's Knot
- Stormed Fortress
Arc IV - Sword of the Canon
- Initiate's Trial
Cycle of Fire Trilogy
- Stormwarden
- Keeper of the Keys
- Shadowfane
Sorcerer's Legacy
Master of Whitestorm
That Way Lies Camelot
To Ride Hell's Chasm
Trudi Canavan
Age of the Five
- Priestess of the White
- Last of the Wilds
- Voice of the Gods
Black Magician Trilogy
- The Magicians' Guild
- The Novice
- The High Lord
Traitor Spy Trilogy
- The Ambassador's Mission
- The Rogue
- The Traitor Queen
The Magician's Apprentice bstanley52 - 2013-02-28 7:56 PM Woohoo! Thanks for the add. Looking forward to reading these! Happy to oblige! KaraAyako - 2013-03-03 8:39 PM First, thank you for everything you've done for making this challenge possible. I'm learning a lot about female authors, and I'm picking up books that I wouldn't have otherwise. This challenge is great. Could you please add Wen Spencer to your database? She wrote the Elfhome series: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/26546.Wen_Spencer Thank you! You are most welcome and thanks for the feedback! It's great to hear that it's working like we hoped it would. I've added Wen Spencer to my to do list. Stevenmlong - 2013-03-04 11:08 AM Can you add Emma Newman to the list (http://angryrobotbooks.com/our-authors/emma-newman/). Thanks! No problem. Emma Newman is on the to do list. Kata - 2013-03-04 11:47 AM I just picked up A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan. Can I count this toward the Challenge? I notice that Brennan is on the list. Thanks, A Natural History of Dragons is getting some great press lately. That cover is pretty sweet. How's the book so far? I'll add it to my list so you can tag it and let us all know how it turns out. gallyangel - 2013-03-06 3:04 PM I read Madeleine L'Engle's A wrinkle in time for this month's book. You have it listed as the first of four books. I've discovered it's a quintet instead of quartet. Wrinkle in Time, Wind in the Door, Swiftly Titling Planet, Many Waters, and the fifth is An Acceptable Time. If you'd of asked me a year ago, I would've thought the thing was a trilogy. Right you are, gallyangel! There is some confusion on this one out on the interwebs but Wikipedia and the L'Engle website say it's book five so I'll get that one added soon. I hate an incomplete series. Trilogies have a funny way of growing past 3 volumes even years later. Happy reading everyone! |
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Location: SC, USA | Could you please add Cinder by Marissa Meyer and Scarlet by Marissa Meyer? Thanks. |
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Location: The Wilds of Washington | Right you are, gallyangel! There is some confusion on this one out on the interwebs but Wikipedia and the L'Engle website say it's book five so I'll get that one added soon. I hate an incomplete series. Trilogies have a funny way of growing past 3 volumes even years later.
Kind of like Eoin Colfer's And Another Thing is book six of the Hitchhiker trilogy. |
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Location: UK | @ Rhonda - I loved Marissa Meyer's Cinder,a nice example of well written YA where romance is not at the centre of everything.Waiting impatiently for Scarlett to come out here in UK.We are often months behind US publication dates,and then waiting for the library to get it,and then wait my turn on the waiting list.....(sigh) I'll get it eventually.But second books can be tricky,I hope it is up to scratch.
Aarrgghh.Just checked,there is ONE copy among 39 libraries,so it may be quite a while before I get it! lol |
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| I stayed up until 2 in the morning to finish A Natural History of Dragons. it is a beautiful story about a young woman following a passion. |
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| If you find some time, I'd love to see more books from Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson series, as well as her Alpha and Omega series. I have all of those books. I just finished her newest book, Frost Burned, and I loved it. :-) |
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Location: UK | @ knobren.I know,it annoyed me to see only one Mercy Thompson book listed,and it wasnt even the first in series! :0(.Frost Burned isnt out yet in my area,so I just have to wait (im)patiently till my library gets it.Perhaps by then the other books will be listed! lol |
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| I have a review of "Hidden City" by Michelle Sagara West ready to go whenever you get a chance to add her! (Mainly, because I had just picked up the book when I discovered this challenge, so I figured I'd keep going and make it my first read...) In the meantime, on to a new woman of genre fiction! Whee.
Michelle Sagara West series:
House Wars (The Hidden City, City of Night, House Name, Skirmish, Battle)
Sun Sword (The Broken Crown, The Uncrowned King ,The Shining Court, Sea of Sorrows, The Riven Shield, The Sun Sword)
The Sundered (Into the Dark Lands, Children of the Blood, Lady of Mercy, Chains of Darkness Chains of Light)
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| I have a random question. Normally, when I click "read" on a book written by a female author, I have the option of clicking the box to apply it to the WoGF challenge. When I click on Robin Hobb's books, this doesn't seem to be happening: https://www.worldswithoutend.com/novel.asp?id=1150
Could you please look into this or let me know what I'm doing wrong?
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Location: Dallas, Texas | KaraAyako - 2013-03-14 9:57 AM I have a random question. Normally, when I click "read" on a book written by a female author, I have the option of clicking the box to apply it to the WoGF challenge. When I click on Robin Hobb's books, this doesn't seem to be happening: https://www.worldswithoutend.com/novel.asp?id=1150 Could you please look into this or let me know what I'm doing wrong? Thank you! Hi Kara, welcome to WWEnd and the WoGF! You can't add Robin Hobb/Megan Lindholm books because you've already got 12 authors picked for your challenge. That check box is disabled for authors not on your list. You'll have to un-pick someone else then add her to your list to re-activate the checkbox. |
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Location: France | I am enjoying this challenge so much. Thanks for setting it. I feel like it has focused my reading for the year and where I initially wondered if I could manage 12 new authors in the year it seems I am well ahead of target.
The list you have is an excellent starting point but it has pushed me to look further afield too.
I have a review ready for 'Clutch by J. A. Huss' once you get a chance to add it.
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Location: Dallas, Texas | Another big series: P. N. Elrod
Vampire Files
- Bloodlist
- Lifeblood
- Bloodcircle
- Art in the Blood
- Fire in the Blood
- Blood on the Water
- A Chill in the Blood
- The Dark Sleep
- Lady Crymsyn
- Cold Streets
- Song in the Dark
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Location: Dallas, Texas | Rhondak101 - 2013-03-08 2:07 PM Could you please add Cinder by Marissa Meyer and Scarlet by Marissa Meyer? Thanks. On the list, Rhonda! Kata - 2013-03-09 11:47 AM I stayed up until 2 in the morning to finish A Natural History of Dragons. it is a beautiful story about a young woman following a passion. I've got this one ready to go along with some other books by Brennan. Almost there. knobren - 2013-03-11 3:04 AM If you find some time, I'd love to see more books from Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson series, as well as her Alpha and Omega series. I have all of those books. I just finished her newest book, Frost Burned, and I loved it. :-) I could have sworn I had that whole series in the DB! It's on the list now. cmbellerive - 2013-03-14 9:40 AM I have a review of "Hidden City" by Michelle Sagara West ready to go whenever you get a chance to add her! (Mainly, because I had just picked up the book when I discovered this challenge, so I figured I'd keep going and make it my first read...) In the meantime, on to a new woman of genre fiction! Whee. Very cool, cm! I've got her House War series on my to do list now. dihenydd - 2013-03-15 6:17 PM I am enjoying this challenge so much. Thanks for setting it. I feel like it has focused my reading for the year and where I initially wondered if I could manage 12 new authors in the year it seems I am well ahead of target. The list you have is an excellent starting point but it has pushed me to look further afield too. I have a review ready for 'Clutch by J. A. Huss' once you get a chance to add it. Thanks for all the work and time you put into the site. That's great to hear, dihenydd and thanks for the kind words about WWEnd. We appreciate the feedback. More books soon.... ish. |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | We've been a little slow getting new books and authors added because we're working on a new list and some new features on the site that should be launching shortly. Here are some more books so you guys don't think we've forgotten or given up
Wen Spencer
Elfhome / Steel City
- Tinker
- Wolf Who Rules
- Elfhome
Ukiah Oregon
- Alien Taste
- Tainted Trail
- Bitter Waters
- Dog Warrior
Emma Newman
The Split Worlds
- Between Two Thorns
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Location: Michigan | I've picked up a couple of books by Miyuki Miyabe -- Brave Story (a manga) and The Book of Heroes. I'm not sure how you all feel about adding manga, and I haven't even started reading it at this point. The Book of Heroes is pretty interesting at 30 pages in, though -- it strikes me as a YA level, though the cover seems geared towards children. |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | Stevenmlong - 2013-03-19 1:02 PM Thanks! You are most welcome! savagelit - 2013-03-19 8:23 PM I've picked up a couple of books by Miyuki Miyabe -- Brave Story (a manga) and The Book of Heroes. I'm not sure how you all feel about adding manga, and I haven't even started reading it at this point. The Book of Heroes is pretty interesting at 30 pages in, though -- it strikes me as a YA level, though the cover seems geared towards children. Yeah, I don't think we'll be adding manga to the site anytime soon. There's just too much to do in the space we're in now with novels, collections and anthologies etc. to branch out that far. I'm really starting to develop an interest in manga from gallyangel's excellent series though. In case you've not seen it we just posted another installment on the blog that you should check out. I'm easing into the genre with anime right now but someday I'll give a real manga a shot. And now for some books: Marie Brennan
Doppelganger
- Warrior
- Witch
Onyx Court
- Midnight Never Come
- In Ashes Lie
- A Star Shall Fall
- With Fate Conspire
A Natural History of Dragons
Fiona Patton
The Branion Realm
- The Stone Prince
- The Painter Knight
- The Granite Shield
- The Golden Sword
Warriors of Estavia
- The Silver Lake
- The Golden Tower
- The Shining City
Jennifer Fallon
Second Sons
- The Lion of Senet
- Eye of the Labyrinth
- Lord of the Shadows
Tide Lords
- The Immortal Prince
- The Gods of Amyrantha
- The Palace of Impossible Dreams
- The Chaos Crystal
@Kata: We finally got Natural History of Dragons added for ya. I'm looking forward to your review! Hapy reading! |
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Location: Michigan | That's fine -- I don't actually enjoy manga art, myself. There's something about the big eyes -- seems to have the opposite effect it's supposed to have on me. I mostly just checked it out to get a better idea of Miyuke Miyabe's work.
However, The Book of Heroes is a novel. Would you be able to add it? It seems to be the only thing I can get through my library of hers that's in English.
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| This page is getting too long for me to scroll through to see if anybody else has requested this title, but is there any way you can add Point of Hopes, by Melissa Scott and Jill Barnett, to the database sooner rather than later? I read it this month and have my review written, just waiting for it to get in the database so I can add it.
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Location: Dallas, Texas | Hey everybody, we've fallen off the pace a bit in adding new authors and books lately. Mostly it's because real life has a way of jacking up my plans but also we've spent a lot of time working on site updates and the Genre Lit-Flick list. Check that out if you've not seen it! And now, I'm off on vacation for the next week! My apologies to those of you waiting on book additions. We'll get back on track when I return. Happy reading! |
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Location: France | you are doing great work have a good holiday. |
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| Please add Vector for Seven by Josephine Saxton to the database. I'm reading her now.
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| I can't remember if these have already been requested, but could you add the Kate Elliott books, Spirit Gate, Shadow Gate, and Traitors' Gate in the Crossroads series, as well as Cold Magic and Cold Fire, which are the first two books in the Spiritwalker Trilogy? I've started reading Spirit Gate, assuming it would already be in the database. Thanks! |
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Location: Dallas, Texas | This thread is frozen. We'll pick it up again in part deux. |
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Women of Genre Fiction Author & Book Requests