This Week in Chick Lit
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 […]
[Repost] Shiny Happy Characters
~ By Melina Kantor When I was 27, I had to leave New York and move back to California. And back into my mother’s house. Now, I love my mother. And I love her house. And it would be wrong to complain about living in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area. But I was 27, […]
This Week in Chick Lit
~ 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 […]
This Week in Chick Lit
~ 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 […]
This Week in Chick Lit
~ 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 […]
Welcome Erica Manfred, Author of “Interview With a Jewish Vampire”
~ Interview by Melina Kantor * This post is part of Erica Manfred’s Chick Lit Plus Blog Tour. Until recently, I thought I’d heard (or even experienced) some of the worst JDate horror stories imaginable. Or at least some of the strangest. Trust me. My friends and I could write books about our online dating […]
This Week in Chick Lit
~ 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 This week alone, they’ve got blog posts on writing tips, inspiration for unpublished authors, […]
Happy Friday!
~ 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, […]
This Week in Chick Lit
~ 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. […]
This Week in Chick Lit
~ 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 […]
This Week in Chick Lit
~ 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, […]
Friday Inspiration
Hello Chick Lit Fans, Happy Friday! This week, I thought I’d share a video from The Moth (“true stories told live”) with a real chick lit feel (not to mention cute firefighters). The story was told by Katherine Russell Rich, a writer who recently passed away. So here it is, a treat for your muses, in Katherine’s […]
