Still passing as male

[julesjones]

Now there's a coincidence. I was in a conversation elsewhere yesterday about female authors of m/m pretending to be men for commercial reasons, and pointed out that readers keep thinking of me as male even though I have never explicitly presented myself as a man, and have in fact made efforts to correct reviews that referred to me as male.

And this afternoon someone linked to my post about my Cybook, and referred to me as "he". Okay, this is a stranger and someone from outside the world of romance epublishing who was obviously misled by the subject matter of my books, but it's not that many months since the last time a romance reader did it. (I'm not going to embarrass her by naming her.:-) I suppose I *could* redecorate the blog in pink bows and hearts, but I'm not really into pink. Which is doubtless a contributing factor in why so many people think I'm a guy, or at least can't decide.

Comments

[tanjalouise.livejournal.com]

Uhm, I must admit that I have read lots of your stories but either I never read the Jules Jones author description properly (I must admit I tend to ignore them a lot) but I was quite certain that you are a.) British and b.) a man...
regarding a.) I wasn't so sure when I read the The Syndicate story but after Dolphin Dreams and the way Martin made the tea at Mr. Parker's house suggested a Brit rather than an American. I mean no disrespect I am sure Americans brew a nice cup of tea but it sounded rather British.
LOL...well b.) having a vivid imagination is all good but it just sounded like you had personal experience with the sex and all. And I haven't found any pictures of you anywhere (not that I have been looking very hard, but there you go instant thought oh yes, definitely male)

[julesjones]

The author bio tends to be ungendered because a lot of gay erotica anthology editors prefer it that way, and I use the same one for Loose Id. I did have one editor actually change it to read "he" without asking me first, which startled me slightly.

Very definitely British, but I've confused people in the past because I was living in California at the time people started buying my books, although I moved back to the UK last year. I avoid having pictures online under this name, but that's just a general thing with not wanting people to link this name to my meatspace identity in case it causes problems, rather than hiding my gender.

I research the sex, just as I research other things I need to be able to write convincingly about. I have an interesting reference library, which gets locked up before my parents come to visit. :-)