Women’s Fiction is in the news — and the blogs. First up, a link to an article from our Wise Woman, Barbara Samuel, that was posted on Likes Books in 2000. Nine years later, everything she says still holds true.

More recently, agent Jim McCarthy from Dystel & Goderich Literary Management blogged about the importance of voice for romance and women’s fiction.

Halfway down this Oxygen blog, which summarizes the panel on genre fiction from The Surrey International Writers’ Conference, is a question from an audience member about women’s fiction, with a great answer by Donald Maass.

Pimp My Novel has a great blog about Women’s Fiction, with links to blogs on the subject by agent Jessica Faust and author Jennifer Weiner.

If you want to go straight to Jessica Faust’s blog on The Future of Women’s Fiction, here’s the link.

Of interest to all writers is JA Konrath’s blog where he shows and tells his e-royalty figures.

I thought it would be fun to throw in this job position description posted on MediaBistro:

Finally, Penguin Group seeks a Senior Editor/Executive Editor for the New American Library. Here’s more about the job: “This position will work primarily with best-selling womens fiction and non-fiction authors. Offering a wide selection of commercial fiction and non-fiction, NAL aims at reaching the largest number of possible readers, the true mass market.”

Last, enjoy this video from Barbara Vey’s Beyond Her Book PW’s blog on Women’s Fiction last June.

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