After previous comments that I’ve made about pen names, and how some genres of books are expected to be written by men or women, I found this article:

http://jezebel.com/homme-de-plume-what-i-learned-sending-my-novel-out-und-1720637627

A female writer Catherine Nichols experimented with sending her query letter out as a man. She was shocked at the response she received and had the wisdom to extract helpful hints from the comments that got in the critiques.

I Googled her, and found that there’s already a well-known author with the same name, so she might be well advised to find another pen name apart from George Leyer!