tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849583276019228310.post904754666824088506..comments2024-03-28T05:29:45.364-04:00Comments on Heim Binas Fiction: Hope for Chick Lit?CKHBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17741681893677604323noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849583276019228310.post-11628874818948529582009-08-22T18:44:22.182-04:002009-08-22T18:44:22.182-04:00I always love your posts on this subject, and the ...I always love your posts on this subject, and the links are great!Karla Doylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17951720163661226897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849583276019228310.post-30487662843596723152009-08-21T23:15:58.456-04:002009-08-21T23:15:58.456-04:00I wanted to tell you how much I enjoy your blog! ...I wanted to tell you how much I enjoy your blog! I was introduced to it by Lisa P (I'm planning to attempt NaNoWriMo this year), and really love your writing.<br /><br />Your comments on chick lit are very astute. I must say, I'm delighted by the thought that the overall image of the genre is moving away from the SATC model (a style of chick lit that always drove me crazy). I look forward to reading your novel!The Morriganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02339673078870987088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849583276019228310.post-73203163668076008442009-08-21T08:48:50.007-04:002009-08-21T08:48:50.007-04:00I think there's hope for chick lit! Especially...I think there's hope for chick lit! Especially chick lit today's average woman can relate to. Less with the shopping, more with the intelligent choices and struggles with life. That's the kind of heroine I like to read AND write.Faithhttp://www.boughanfire.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849583276019228310.post-25620139988385739742009-08-20T19:40:44.793-04:002009-08-20T19:40:44.793-04:00There is always hope for chick lit! Especially wit...There is always hope for chick lit! Especially with wonderful writers like yourself out there. I will always want to read about love, life and relationships and if the author can make me laugh, question something or look at something differently so much the better. Great post.<br /><br />PS- your comment on my blog was hilarious :) I forgot about Oprah!Tabitha Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08196816108272065974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849583276019228310.post-10590294444742756312009-08-20T16:57:15.607-04:002009-08-20T16:57:15.607-04:00Carrie and Debra-- you both may not have gotten bi...Carrie and Debra-- you both may not have gotten bites (yet), but we still hear that women's fiction and chick lit is alive and well with agents/editors--I've read it at least once on the BookEnds blog and Kristin Nelson's blog.<br /><br />Speaking as a reader, I WANT to read it. It's not dead! I like it! The only thing that might be dead about it is more stories about shoes or shopping; Sophie Kinsella did it and had some imitators. As you note, Sex in the City is over with. <br /><br />What I (and maybe we) want is smarter chick lit that isn't about those elements, but still sticks to the basic getting-life-in-order formula. I want it, I look for it.Sierra Godfreyhttp://sierragodfrey.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849583276019228310.post-14205494166432770722009-08-20T15:43:05.049-04:002009-08-20T15:43:05.049-04:00Really good post!
I've always believed Chick ...Really good post!<br /><br />I've always believed Chick Lit to be its own genre, and I like the explanation that it's a sub-set of Women's Fiction. That makes sense. To my mind, they're two separate styles. And maybe that's a little bit of me feeling swayed toward one side of the cafeteria over the other. Not so much in a clique-y way, just because that's where I'm most comfortable.Janna Leadbetterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06339705935553160673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849583276019228310.post-24435074688246603362009-08-20T11:15:26.027-04:002009-08-20T11:15:26.027-04:00I enjoy the humor and snappy wit they provide. I l...I enjoy the humor and snappy wit they provide. I look back at my time spent with Sophie Kinsell's novel's fondly.Tanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10518718614911804428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849583276019228310.post-11429044718404571462009-08-20T11:03:58.947-04:002009-08-20T11:03:58.947-04:00I hope it's not dead. I really enjoy the newer...I hope it's not dead. I really enjoy the newer Chick-lit novels as well as Christian Chick-lit.Jennifer Shirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16970585847385511795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849583276019228310.post-57983677128383730752009-08-20T11:02:31.766-04:002009-08-20T11:02:31.766-04:00Good post. I wrote a women's fiction novel and...Good post. I wrote a women's fiction novel and got a few nibbles, but no bites. It was really "hen lit" since it followed the protag from her 20's through her mid-40's. I love reading books about women, particularly if the voice is funny. Not surprisingly, that's also what I write.;-)Debra Lynn Sheltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08238268767406623274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849583276019228310.post-55677013934204074202009-08-20T11:00:18.314-04:002009-08-20T11:00:18.314-04:00Love the cafeteria analogy for women's fiction...Love the cafeteria analogy for women's fiction and chick lit. And so true that it's all about the packaging.Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05645051427718508141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-849583276019228310.post-45744870374911631042009-08-20T10:37:15.183-04:002009-08-20T10:37:15.183-04:00I think the elements of chick lit that made it goo...I think the elements of chick lit that made it good have lived on...and permeated both romance and women's fiction, as well as young adult. The snazzy, cartoony covers and the humor, as well as the 30-something heroine struggling to make it in a new world. I see that in a lot of romance novels and women's fiction now. What isn't surviving is the shallow, self-involved "shopaholic" ways of many of the girls in chick lit novels. I can't relate to someone paying $600 for a pair of shoes and I really don't want to read about it. It's just a world that's not...well...mine. But all of the chick lit authors are just finding new homes in women's fiction and romance. Jennifer Weiner won't suffer for a publisher no matter what the trend.Stephanie Farishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10461865229341760836noreply@blogger.com