you know what's completely absent from the sub-genre of

[james_davis_nicoll]

women who gave up careers in the big city to move to a small town, run a small business, find a new romance, adopt or foster a couple of kids and solve crime? Women who decide/discover at age 40 that yeah, they really do prefer to be romantically involved with women over men.

Why is that?

[They exist, I just don't get sent them for some reason. Time to go button hole my editors on this matter]

Comments

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Men are not the primary buyers of mysteries. Of any sort of books, really, aside a few small genres.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

As I recall the stats from about a decade ago:

 
Genre    % sales
Romance     50
Mystery     25
Fantasy      4
SF           2

[srogerscat.livejournal.com]

Point taken, but...
....are most editors twenty something males at heart?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Let me mentally check something....

Of the dozen or so editors I deal with, only three are men.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

No.