CHICK-LIT ROMANCE NOVELS:
- the sub-genre breaks some rules of traditional romance novels
- the heroine is in her mid-twenties
- she is quirky
- she lives with roommates
- she does not have a satisfying job
- she is not looking for a long-distance relationship
-she is more interested in building a career than finding love
- she may drink or do drugs or swear or fly from man to man
- she may end up alone at the end of the story, but more mature
- the heroine's family and friends are as important as the love interest
- 100,000 words or less
EXAMPLES:
Almost Royalty by Courtney Hamilton. (Courtney follows a list with a rating system for dating acceptable men)
In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner (movie too)
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella (movie too)
The Group by Mary McCarthy
The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- the sub-genre breaks some rules of traditional romance novels
- the heroine is in her mid-twenties
- she is quirky
- she lives with roommates
- she does not have a satisfying job
- she is not looking for a long-distance relationship
-she is more interested in building a career than finding love
- she may drink or do drugs or swear or fly from man to man
- she may end up alone at the end of the story, but more mature
- the heroine's family and friends are as important as the love interest
- 100,000 words or less
EXAMPLES:
Almost Royalty by Courtney Hamilton. (Courtney follows a list with a rating system for dating acceptable men)
In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner (movie too)
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella (movie too)
The Group by Mary McCarthy
The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen