Male, female, BCF
Interesting line from Interzone's "Books Received":
"Robin Hobb" is a pseudonym of Megan Lindholm . . . it seems Ms Lindholm's relaunching of her career really worked; we wonder if the slightly masculine-sounding pseudonym was a factor?; it remains an odd anomaly that although scores of women write Big Commercial Fantasies the very biggest sellers . . . still tend to be male: Eddings, Feist, Jordan, etc; maybe Lindholm has broken that pattern. . . .
I don't know enough about B.C.F. to know whether that's true (that the biggest sellers are mostly male), but it sounds plausible. Interesting, and curious, if true; wonder why that would be.