It's a trend that should be rectified."
"Rectified how?" asked a woman in the seventh row. "Even most female authors
tend to use male lead characters."
Donovan shrugged and said, "If you're really an author, you'll write your
characters your way."
"But if I buck the trend, will I ever be published?"
"Ninety-nine percent of all manuscripts aren't published when they don't
buck trends, so all you can do is try, like everybody else."
The rest of the session was about the same. Nobody asked any questions that
couldn't be answered in about the same manner, and one of the small-press guys
gently ranted about how expenses and tight budgets made publishers extremely
selective about what sorts of manuscripts were accepted.
One of the self-published authors used the small-press guy's rant as a
springboard for extolling the virtues of being your own publisher, citing total
control and other aspects.
Someone asked him how many copies of his book were sitting in his garage,
waiting to be sold, and how many copies had been sold. The self-pubber's answer
was rather vague, but it didn't actually seem evasive; in fact, it seemed to
Cade that the guy had simply been unprepared for the question and really didn't
have the actual numbers at hand.
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