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 This week alone, they’ve got blog posts on writing tips, inspiration for unpublished authors, […]
A Little Girl And Her Big Dreams
~ By Anne Kemp There once was a little girl who dreamed in Technicolor of the life she wanted when she was older. The best and most favorite of her dreams were the ones where she was running away to an island so she could write a book. She knew it was hokey and farfetched, […]
Pastime or Addiction?
And How Real Virtue Came To Be ~ By Katy Lee Thank you for inviting me to your virtual home today to talk about the gaming aspect of my novel, Real Virtue. Did you know video game addiction is becoming an increasingly difficult problem with the youths in America today? It can affect the everyday […]
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, […]
Hollywood Hits and Misses
~ By Meredith Schorr I would think almost all of us have read books that were made into movies and just as many of us have probably seen movies that were adapted from books. When I devour a book and find out it’s being turned into a movie, I literally count the days until I […]
Review: “Somebody to Love” by Kristan Higgins
~ By Elle Filz By all accounts, Parker Welles is living a charmed life. A trust fund kid, she’s the author of a wildly-successful childrens book series – the profits of which are donated to charity. She’s also got an adorable son, good friends, and a nice little life in small-town Rhode Island. And one […]
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. […]
Interview With Teresa Thorne
~ Interview by Chris Bailey Before [RWA Chapter] Southern’s Magic’s 2011 Reader’s Luncheon, I asked Birmingham author Teresa Thorne to tell blog readers more about her award-winning novel, Noah’s Wife, named the 2009 Historical Fiction Book of the Year by ForeWord Reviews Magazine. Our correspondence fell into an unpredictable cyberspace wormhole, but I’m delighted to report that […]
My Road to Publication
~ By Karen Cino My road to publication has been a long one. Now that it’s here, I can say that it is everything I have ever dreamed of and more. Being a writer has always been a dream. Through the years I doubted my dream and wondered if I should have taken a different […]
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 […]
The Agent Search – Another Perspective
~ By Maureen McGowan These days, writers have options to get their books into the hands of readers, but many are still looking for something resembling the “traditional” publishing experience. And the simple fact remains, to up your chances of getting your manuscript read by editors at the big publishers, you need an agent. Since […]
