I told the researcher that I would like to participate and she asked me to pass it on. If you are interested, please contact her directly. Just let her know where you heard about it, please. Mary K. Chelton Begin forwarded message:
From: director <director@anaphoraliterary.com> Subject: Re: male/female authorial voice survey Date: October 9, 2013 7:32:39 PM EDT To: Mary K Chelton <mchelton@optonline.net>
Sure:
I'm working on my third academic book, in which Purdue University Press expressed an interest. The book is called, "Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Authorship: The Anti-Stereotypical Voices of Women and Men Who Cross Genres." I would like to distribute a survey to some participants to determine if men and women can tell a male from a female authorial voice, and to ask some other questions related to gender, authorship and mystery and romance genres. If you are interested, send an email to director@anaphoraliterary.com and I'll send the survey to you shortly. I will be working on this book until the beginning of January and hope to distribute and collect the replies to the survey in the upcoming month. I will probably create the survey with FluidSurveys.com or another similar service and would send it as a link via email to the volunteers.
Sincerely,
Anna Faktorovich, PhD, Director Anaphora Literary Press http://anaphoraliterary.com director@anaphoraliterary.com