Sci-fi author Maureen Johnson tells us why more books written by women have "girly covers":
"A man and a woman can write books about the same subject matter, at the same level of quality, and that woman is simply more likely to get the soft-sell cover with the warm glow and the feeling of smooth jazz blowing off of it. This idea that there are ‘girl books’ and ‘boy books’… gives credit to absolutely no one, especially not the boys who will happily read stories by women, about women. As a lover of books and someone who supports readers and writers of both sexes, I would love a world in which books are freed from some of these constraints.”
See her Cover Challenge: more popular novels with the covers given this "girly cover" treatment: @the Mary Sue.
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