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Literature on Women’s fiction, chick lit and romantic suspense novels

Women’s fiction is basically a broad term used to describe fiction which is targeted at women readers.

Author: Jane Rosenthal

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The term covers mainstream novels, romantic fiction, chick lit and other sub-genres. Generally, content of such novels involves a lead female protagonist and the story is woven around the protagonist. Women’s fiction involves a wide array of categories under which fictitious stories, incidents and writings are published. Generally, writings under this category encompass relationship stories, generational sagas, love stories and almost anything that women in the society can relate to.

One of the categories of women’s fiction is romantic suspense. Romantic suspense is a contemporary category in women’s fiction that usually involves an intriguing mystery or incident that is woven around a female character. In a typical romantic suspense story the female character is a target of a conspiracy, crime or an attempted crime and the male character of the story attempts to save her from it. By the end of romantic suspense novels, the suspense if unfolded and the relation between the female protagonist and a male character evolves into a romantic relationship.

In a romantic suspense novel, it is imperative that the romance between character and incidents causing suspense are in fact one complex story.

One of the key differences between writing style of a romantic suspense novels and traditional romantic novels is that, relationships depicted in the former do not use any traditional romantic verses or detailed description of sentiments in the story. Generally, such novels focus more on the events of the suspense that are taking place around the characters , than on the personal aspects of the characters.

This means that romantic suspense novels focus more on the plot than on the characters. However, in romantic suspense novels, the lives of the characters and the suspense situations are intertwined and characters and affected by the situations depicted in the story, adding to the suspense.

While the romantic suspense deals with mystery, chick lit is a genre of women’s fiction that attempts to address the issues of modern women in a light hearted and humorous way. The term chick lit has been derived from the word ‘chick’ which is an American slang for ‘girl’ and ‘lit’ which is a short form for ‘literature’. Fiction under this category is often criticized; describing it to be frivolous and stereotypical, but the genre continues to remain popular amongst female readers. Chick lit genre regards the womanhood of its lead female protagonist as the main theme in the plot.

Chick lit novels often feature a stylish, career-driven female protagonist who is in her twenties or thirties and may have an obsessive tendency towards something like shopping, looking good, being stylish or being obsessed about their appearance. It is this tendency of the protagonist in a Chick lit novel that gives rise to humorous situations. Apart from the usual contemporary style mentioned above, Chick lit writing has also been adopted to write historical chick lit stories, ethnic chick lit, religious chick lit and other sub genres.

About Author

Jane Rosenthal is an award winning poet, radio journalist, a romantic suspense author and an educator. She received a degree in Creative Writing from San Francisco State where she studied with Frances Mayes. She also loves to write on about women’s fiction and Chick lit . Anyone who loves, reading, writing, gardening and believes in changing the world one small step at a time should write her at www.allaboutjanesranch.com.

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Literature on Women’s fiction, chick lit and romantic suspense novels