![]() That was what they all wanted-a plasticized woman- which I felt was a prototype that needed to be killed off-in the consciousness of readers. What these editors and literary agents wanted was a “realistic” female protagonist that fell somewhere between Lara Croft Tomb Raider and Anastasia Steele, victimized pansy.įunny, in my years as a reporter investigating everything from mobsters to mayhem and natural disasters to political ones, I’d never actually run across a beauty queen/karate expert/masochistic love slave/reporter. Shockingly these old school, sexist and disturbing comments were not made decades ago before people knew better, but in 2011-12. Those were just some of the critiques I got from book editors and agents-many of them women-to whom I’d submitted the manuscript for my first novel, The Sixth Station. Why does she eat so much? And that wine-seriously? We’ll buy it if you made her 25 and sexier.įemale protagonists should NOT be flawed. ![]() She’d just be more appealing if she were thinner, taller and younger. Forty-two year old women don’t have adventures. ![]()
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