My awesome writer friend, Joanne Hall, who is not only a fantastic writer herself but is a great advocate for new writers and promoting diversity and new talent in SFF. Definitely some names to check out here!
For the last four years, I have been challenging myself to read more new-to-me female authors – at least 12 a year, and review the ones I enjoy the most to share my discoveries. I was a little bit slack with reviews last year, but I discovered more female authors. Hoping to review more this year – that’s my pledge!
In 2017 I read 60 books, 20 of which were single-author novels or novellas by women. I read quite a few anthologies and dual-author novels too, but I’m not counting them for the purposes of the challenge. That’s about proportional with last year, when I read more books overall, but this year I really want to try to get my reading closer to 50/50. I gave eight books five stars on Goodreads this year and four of those were by women.
Best discoveries of the year were Zen Cho…
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