Something that I have (quite obviously) noticed is that most of the authors on the Cozy Mystery\u00a0site are women. That’s not to say that I don’t enjoy mysteries written by men…\u00a0But, I think that it gets back to the fact that\u00a0female authors simply have\u00a0a better grasp of what women want to read, and also\u00a0of what women find “acceptable”… The women authors tend to “play down” the rather unrealistic … let’s just call them… “male fantasies.” (You know the type… gorgeous blond with legs that don’t stop on Monday, beautiful brunette with over-developed bust on Wednesday, phenomenally sexy red head with… whatever! on Friday… only sleuthing while taking a break between the “knock ’em dead women” >>> or better said\u00a0“girls” … who quite obviously love the leading men.)<\/p>\n
I hope that this does\u00a0not make me a female chauvinist cozy-reader… I am more than happy to read books by men who write cozies… and indeed I do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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