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May 25, 2006
Pink Cover, Script Font
The latest issue of In Style had a helpful Summer Book Roundup. You know, sizzling chick lit to read poolside. Quality selections included:
The Girls - "Ever wonder what life is like for Siamese twins? Meet fictionalized 29 year old Ruby and Rose Darlen, who are joined at the head but are hardly of the same mind."
The Whole World Over - "If you've ever dreamed of moving out west and starting over, this pastry chef's story will inspire."
And so on.
So, I decided: if all my grand art criticism plans fail to materialize, I'll just write chick lit. I mean, I've never actually read a bona fide, contemporary, high-estrogen novel, but I think I have the formula down:
Set of Five - San Francisco stationary designer Luci has just been unceremoniously dumped by her CEO husband. With a huge deadline for her next card line looming, there couldn't be a worse time for learning to live the simple life. But when Luci's sister, a stay-at-home mother of five, takes the new divorcee under her wing, Luci finds inspiration where she least expects it.
Lift and Separate - When Jacquelyn moved from Wichita to Manhattan, she was determined to be daring. But after two years in the Big Apple, Jaq is still working a dead-end job in a nubby brown sweater and Birkenstocks. When she hears that Charles, her college ex-boyfriend, is moving to town she decides that a drastic change is in order: an overdue city life and style makeover. Can she learn to strut in Jimmy Choos in just two weeks?
Dry - Chloe, a twenty-eight year old Harvard law grad, is far from pleased when her firm packs her off to Texas to do some research for an upcoming oil case. Once there, however, she meets Trent, a charming, dedicated wildcatter, a man quite skilled at finding promise in the most unlikely of places...
This could be lucrative.
Writing | By elissa | 04:27 PM
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Comments
Hysterical. I laughed till I cried. You've totally got it down.
Posted by: Krista at May 25, 2006 04:37 PM
"Set of Five" sounds promising. I'd buy it if you wrote it.
Posted by: Carrie at May 25, 2006 04:38 PM
the best chicklit novels have double-meaning titles, like your 'lift and separate.'
i read these to ian and we laughed. these are really good. you've got quite a mimicry knack, right down to the heroines' names: Luci (with an i) and Jaq.
Make jaq from lift and separate from Manhattan, Kansas--Manhattan to Manhattan, haha! And a Kansan might not wear Birks just because she's a Kansan. More likely she'd wear serviceable shoes from payless. Pennyloafers or something.
Posted by: Krista at May 25, 2006 06:30 PM
There is also a huge profit to be made in Children's Lit.
Posted by: funke at May 26, 2006 02:15 PM
