Athena’s Daughters (Women in Sci-fi, Let’s Hear You Roar!)
One of the authors in my Washington DC authors colleague group, Janine Spendlove, told me about a kickstarter project she and a bunch of other women writers created. I looked at the kickstarter link http://tinyurl.com/athenasD, and I'm really impressed with the group of women involved. I also like the fact that it's highlighting woman and scifi because that genre has been male-dominated for a long time. The publishing industry is seeing an up tic of women authors entering the scifi genre and a lot more women heroines in the books. (ex. Hunger Games, Divergent, Pandemonium, Across a Star...
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