women's fiction
"There is a great demand for novels that can be positioned at the top of the commercial list—thrillers and/or dramas that women will want to read. All of the big publishers (with a contracting list of exceptions) are on the hunt for a female friendly literary/commercial commodity."
— Shawn Coyne
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"As writers, we were driven to feature women like us, to tell our stories in a vernacular descriptive of our own lives, our hopes and fears, neuroses and dreams."
— Freya North
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"I don't like labels. I don't like it when bookstores have sections labeled 'Women's Fiction' because they don't have sections labeled 'Men's Fiction.'"
— Freya North
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"As long as I'm in that 'zone,' I'm happy enough whether I've written 700 words or, like one crazy day writing The Turning Point, 7,000."
— Freya North
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Follow Your Curiosity"It depends on what you think of when you hear the term 'chick lit.' If you think it denotes a young fluffy girl in designer heels and handbags looking for Mr. Right, I'd be horrified. If you think of it as reflective, resonant, real stories that speak to women today, I'd cheer."
— Jane Green
"I'd written women's fiction, chick lit, and historical romance. Almost every agent I submitted to said, 'Wow, like your voice, but, um, the heroine is kind of ...grouch.' Then, in 2010, I decided to try writing YA. Suddenly, my heroines weren't grouch. They were spunky."
— Romily Bernard
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