{"id":4557,"date":"2010-05-30T05:38:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T11:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=4557"},"modified":"2010-05-30T05:38:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T11:38:52","slug":"cozy-mystery-authors-is-it-better-to-be-a-woman-than-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/cozy-mystery-authors-is-it-better-to-be-a-woman-than-a-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Cozy Mystery Authors: Is It Better to be a Woman than a Man?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4586\" title=\"20279328[1]\" src=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/202793281-e1275144290674.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"107\" \/>You know, I started thinking the other day, (my husband always likes it when I do that!) &#8211; am I\u00a0more likely to try a new Cozy Mystery series by an author who is\u00a0a\u00a0woman, or would I look at both female and male authors in the same manner?<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I know which authors fill my TBR (to be read) bookshelf, and I have to admit that there are a whole\u00a0lot more women authors than men crammed into each tier of my TBR (To Be Read)\u00a0shelf unit.\u00a0I mean, I have male authors in my &#8220;favorites&#8221; group but\u00a0there are, by far, a lot less of them than women authors.<\/p>\n<p>Is it because women authors simply lend themselves to being &#8220;Cozy&#8221;-er than\u00a0their\u00a0male counterparts?\u00a0Is it that several best selling male authors have\u00a0&#8220;ruined it&#8221; for the other male authors\u00a0by including their craziest male fantasies into every novel they publish? I mean, I can only take so much of the 007 graphic &#8220;womanizing&#8221; (and that&#8217;s\u00a0a tame word for it!!!)\u00a0before I simply say&#8230; &#8220;In your dreams, Buddy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do any of you have definite preferences when choosing to try a new mystery author?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, I started thinking the other day, (my husband always likes it when I do that!) &#8211; am I\u00a0more likely to try a new Cozy Mystery series by an author who is\u00a0a\u00a0woman, or would I look at both female and male authors in the same manner? Hmmm&#8230; I know which authors fill my TBR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cozy-mystery-administrators-observations","7":"entry","8":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-1bv","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}