Le site Orbitbooks.net publie un article de Kate Griffin intitulé Feminine Fantasy, dans lequel l'auteure de La Folie des Anges s'interroge sur la place des femmes dans la Fantasy en général, et dans son écriture en particulier. 

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Anyone who’s ever read my books will discover, perhaps to their surprise, that I tend not to write heroines. And sure, this is a habit I’m currently in the process of breaking, but as it’s been such a long-running thing, I figured I’d take this time to talk about why.  Women and fantasy have always had a curious and complicated relationship. On the one hand, we’re a very large part of the reader’s market, but on the other hand, we tend not to embrace the geekiness in a particularly overt way. Certain aspects of the genre – zombies and spaceships, mainly – are still considered largely a male-dominated preserve, while others – women having unwise relationships with vampires, for example – rake in the female readers like hungry pigeons to breadcrumbs in the park. That said, at those few science fiction and fantasy events I’ve been to where writers are invited to mingle en mass, I’m regularly reminded of just how few female writers there are in this genre – or at least, how few turn up for the free crisps and bits of cheese on a stick. As a girl discovering her innate geek, I did indeed endure those painful teenage years where the idea that I might like science fiction and fantasy books somehow made me outside the accepted norm of youthful female behaviour.

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Priscilla Duran-Mulas