> I think it is easier for a new writer to
> break in with a cozy that St. Martin's might pick up
and publish in
> hardcover for libraries where a predominantly
middle-aged female
> readership hangs out.
As a reviewer specializing in crime fiction, I read it all,
from the cutest cozy to the most bitter noir. I often hand
off books to friends and relatives, and, to my surprise, the
authors frequent cited on the RAVA-AVIS list are the ones
that my middle-aged (and elderly) women friends like best and
continue to follow on their own. In all fairness to Tim, who
started this thread,
> I recently wrote him that currently writers like
Connelly, Child,
> Lehane, Rankin, Crais,
> and Pelacanos were hitting the best seller lists. He
called me on the
> phbone (they never do that!) to explain that while
some established
> writers in this sub-genre were selling well,
publishers still were
> extremely resistant to publishing new hardboiled
writers.
>
I've have to say that none of my female friends and
colleagues share my enthusiasm for the early books by
Pelecanos, whose writing I find to be the grittiest.
Karen
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