banners broker ~ By Melina Kantor Hello Everyone. I hope you’re all having a somewhat relaxing and enjoyable summer, and that if you’re in one of the many places where it’s really unspeakably hot right now, I hope you’re staying cool. This week, I came across an article on the appeal of chick lit. I’m sure […]
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~ By Melina Kantor Sadly, this week’s biggest chick lit related story is the news about Nora Ephron. Yes, she may have been best known for writing chick flicks, not chick lit, but she was definitely a role model for us chick lit writers. As Jennifer Weiner put it in her Huffington Post article Nora
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~ By Melina Kantor Hello Chick Lit Fans, Happy Friday. And happy summer! June is here, which hopefully means a lot of us are on or soon to be on vacation. Which means there’s more time for writing! But we all know it’s impossible to write if we don’t a) take time to relax and
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~ By Melina Kantor Happy Friday, Chick Lit Fans. We hope you’ve had a good, writing and / or reading filled week! A while back, we mentioned that Esquire Magazine is coming out with a line of ebooks geared towards men. According to this article in The New Zealand Herald, the books are “plot
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~ By Melina Kantor Hello Chick Lit Fans! Happy Friday. This week, the major buzz in the book world is the BookExpo America (BEA) conference. Wish you could have gone? Well, I do too. But here are some highlights: Leave us a comment and let us know what you think about Jennifer Weiner’s thoughts on
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~ By Melina Kantor Hello Chick Lit Fans, Happy Friday! And Happy First Day of June. This week, two chick lit related stories caught my eye. 1. An article in The Economist called, “Chick-Lit Readers Keep Out!” claims that: “Women’s Fiction” may be a familiar term, but it’s usually deployed in the marketing of certain
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~ By Melina Kantor Hello Chick Lit Fans! Happy Friday. 🙂 This week, all of my favorite chick lit related blog posts and stories are from one source. If you haven’t already, head over to the International Chick Lit Month site. This week alone, they’ve got blog posts on writing tips, inspiration for unpublished authors,
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~ By Melina Kantor Hello Chick Lit Fans! Happy Friday. We here at the blog thought we’d kick off the weekend by sharing some of the writing related images / cartoons / inspiration floating around the social networks this week. If you’ve got any more, please share! You can post them to our Facebook page,
~ By Melina Kantor Hello Chick Lit Fans! Congratulations on surviving the week! Here are two of the chick lit related stories floating around the Web this week: First, there’s this story in Publisher’s Weekly about defining chick lit, in which Barbara Vey actually asked people on the street for their definition of the genre.
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~ By Melina Kantor Hello Chick Lit Fans! Happy Friday. More importantly, happy International Chick Lit Month! Yes, there’s an entire month dedicated to our favorite genre, and it’s brought to us by the lovely women at Chicklit Club, Chick Lit is Not Dead, Chick Lit Central and Novelicious. Head on over for wonderful guest blogs
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~ By Melina Kantor Hello Chick Lit Fans, Happy Friday! I saw this and I thought it was the perfect thing to kick off a weekend full of reading and writing. Enjoy! Be sure to head over to http://www.kmweiland.com/ for more writer inspiration and resources. Melina writes contemporary women’s fiction with a pinch of oregano and a
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~ By Melina Kantor Hello Chick Lit Fans! Welcome to yet another Friday. Raise your hand if you really, really need this week to be over. Here are a few items of interest to kick off what will hopefully be a fantastic weekend: News: As you’ve probably heard, there was no 2012 Pulitzer Prize in fiction,
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