Fivemack FAILS at shopping

[fivemack]

Anyone want a brand-new copy of K J Parker's Colours in the Steel ? An unobserved shopping error at Amazon meant that I ordered two copies. Yours for a pint.

His trilogy beginning with Devices and Desires caught me by page three of the first volume when I picked that up at a con a few years back, and was good enough to the end that I bought this earlier trilogy of his sight-unseen.

(I had to check his gender; for some reason initials make me assume a writer is female, and the writing style, possibly by comparison with papersky, struck me as ineffably feminine)

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[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Could it be the name? Obviously "K. J. Parker" can be either, but somehow the initials, and the choice to use initials, and the surname, make me guess (with very low certainty, a pure 50% guess) female. I don't know why.