And of course, the five you've chosen also were five of the top six scorers in the poll (the sixth was Gwyneth Jones) so it's not like the readers of this thread disagree with your choice of who will sell books per se. But it is pretty depressing that the inclusion of women's names wouldn't help market the book (I suspect there is exactly one female writer in the world whose name you'd have put on that cover if you had a story by her), no matter how strong the stories are likely to be. It's even pretty depressing that when considering marketing an anthology, it doesn't occur to publishers that having a diverse lineup of authors might help. Possibly because it *wouldn't* help.
It does look like a really strong and interesting anthology!
Re: The real answer
Date: 2007-08-30 08:00 am (UTC)It does look like a really strong and interesting anthology!