Scary Scream Queens and Sci-Fi Sirens Team Up
Pretty-Scary.Net and Pinkraygun.Com Form a Network to Give a Greater Voice to Female Fans in Male-Dominated Genres!
Sci-fi, fantasy, and horror are no longer men’s clubs. Networks are increasingly finding that genre shows, such as Heroes, Lost, and Moonlight, have more female viewers than male viewers, and the Sci Fi Channel attracted 13 % more women and only 2 % more men in 2007, according to a recent article in AdWeek.
PinkRayGun.com and Pretty-Scary.net were formed specifically for this expanding audience, and the two websites are now officially joining forces to create a network.
PinkRayGun.com is a webzine focusing on the modern fan girl. It’s a smart and savvy place to discuss and read about science fiction, fantasy and horror in all of their forms, be it television, movies, books or comics. Its Starlog meets Glamour, Babylon 5 meets Coupling, and Isaac Asimov meets Helen Fielding. But snarkier.
Pink Raygun is everything you’d expect from a genre site, but girly. Everyday at Pink Raygun, you’ll find interviews with the women (and men) who make genre film and television awesome: writers, costume designers, hair and make-up artists, and special effects crew. They’ll also talk to women (and men) who are working in manga, comics and fiction.
Other features of Pink Raygun include genre news, a message board forum, opinion pieces addressing issues within sci-fi, fantasy and horror and an extensive section dedicated to reviews of print and visual media, events, websites and music.
Pretty-Scary.net is a female-run website focusing on women in the horror industry. News about actresses, authors, directors, musicians, and artists who are female grace the pages of this online entertainment website from a female perspective. Horror is the main theme, while sci-fi and fantasy are also covered to a lesser extent. The site was created to give women a place on the internet where they can talk horror, promote their projects, and learn more about women in the horror industry without having to deal with 14-year-old boys (and those with their mentality) who run, and frequent, other horror and genre websites.
Pretty-Scary.net’s Heidi Martinuzzi and PinkRayGun’s Lisa Fary decided to join forces since both of their websites are created for women who are genre fans.
They both are independently owned and operated, and therefore not subject to pressure from corporate or media interests.
Their visions are similar, and by banding together their fans can meet one another and share a love of horror and sci-fi in a way that is productive (and awesome).
“I think Lisa’s a smart woman, and PinkRayGun is a kick in the pants,” says Heidi Martinuzzi.
“I see other websites competing with each other over visitors, and it’s really awful the way genre press will end up feuding.
I don’t want to have anything to do with that. That’s why I want PinkRayGun and my site to work together.
I think it will make us so much stronger and really reinforce our presence for the female fans.”
Lisa Fary says, “Pretty-Scary and Pink Raygun were founded separately, but on the same principles.
Neither demands that women choose between strength or sexiness either in their genre entertainment or in themselves - we embrace both.”
Both websites will share news stories, feeds, forum links, fans, and advertising to start. As 2008 moves along, expect to see even more integration between the two sites, which also plan to add female-centric fantasy, action, and mystery genre sites to their new network in the next few years.
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