{"id":3061,"date":"2020-11-12T21:01:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T05:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/?p=3061"},"modified":"2020-11-09T14:26:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T22:26:36","slug":"womens-lit-mfrwauthor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/12\/womens-lit-mfrwauthor\/","title":{"rendered":"What the heck is Women\u2019s Lit, anyway? #MFRWauthor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is women\u2019s lit a sub-genre of romance? That\u2019s this week\u2019s question.<\/p>\n

\"WritingSomeone asked me a while back if my book, Burning Bridges<\/em>, was romance or women\u2019s lit? She said the description sounded like women\u2019s lit, and she doesn\u2019t review that genre. Gosh, this was something I hadn\u2019t considered before. I thought of my book as romance. I think of women\u2019s lit as centered around a woman and how she solves her life problems, but with elements of romance. In fact, so many books I read as \u201cwomen\u2019s lit\u201d were actually (in my mind) romances. The woman\u2019s problem was so often being alone (after a long-term breakup or a failed marriage) and finding a new partner while solving her problems. I fail to see how that is different from most romances.<\/p>\n

So maybe if the book is about a woman (or women) and\"Planning there is very little romance or bonding with someone else? Is that women\u2019s lit? Goodreads<\/a> lists The Joy Luck Club<\/em>, The Time Traveler\u2019s Wife<\/em>, Jane Eyre<\/em>, Pride and Prejudice<\/em>, Bridget Jones\u2019 Diary<\/em> and others as women\u2019s lit books. So, okay, I see the difference. These are not considered romances (although maybe Bridget Jones disagrees?), and they are by and about women. But they follow a romance arc and many of these books do end with a love bond that provides a HEA, so\u2026 I\u2019m still kind of confused. I will take a firm<\/em> stand however, and say that true women\u2019s fiction is not a sub-genre to romance but that some books cross over into both genre. There. That should settle the question.<\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n

Read the next blog in the blog hop by going here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dee<\/a><\/p>\n

Burning Bridges<\/a> by Anne Krist (that’s maybe<\/em> women’s lit)
\nOne Woman Only<\/a>
\nOnly a Good Man Will Do<\/a>
\nNaval Maneuvers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is women\u2019s lit a sub-genre of romance? That\u2019s this week\u2019s question. Someone asked me a while back if my book, Burning Bridges, was romance or women\u2019s lit? She said the description sounded like women\u2019s lit, and she doesn\u2019t review that genre. Gosh, this was something I hadn\u2019t considered before. I thought of my book as … Continue reading “What the heck is Women\u2019s Lit, anyway? #MFRWauthor”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1070,5,4,3,1246,1],"tags":[353,459,7,1640,1642,1641],"class_list":["post-3061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-52-week-challenge","category-author-information","category-book-topics","category-general","category-mfrw","category-uncategorized","tag-dee-s-knight-2","tag-mfrw","tag-romance","tag-womens-lit","tag-womens-lt-vs-romance","tag-writing-for-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wA33-Nn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3067,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions\/3067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}