Reply #31: I have to say that my fellow authors tend to be very supportive

[Mythsaje]

even when we're competing at some level or another. The vast majority of them are women, since I operate on the fringes of a primarily female dominated genre and the ONLY time I've had a negative experience with another author, it was another male fantasy author. It probably doesn't help that we have opposite opinions about almost everything related to our mutual genre--books I like, he doesn't, books he likes, I don't. But he jumped into one of my promotional efforts and made comments that were TOTALLY inappropriate, something not ONE of the women among my fellows would ever consider doing.