Dick lit? That's a new one on me...

Maybe I'm just very naive..... :O

Deb

Not sure where I saw the definition deb, but basically it's Chick-lit for men - as written by Baddiel and Haddon - although my MC is late middle-aged so it's more of an 'old-fart-lit'

- NaomiM

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I should have said, with a male MC.

What about clit-lit?

I'm in the YA group, so I write zit-lit! (babboom-tish!)

Not if you're MC's a bloke, Colin. Although if one were going the transexual route, it might be an idea.

Zit-lit - that's teen-lit, right?

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Or sapph-lit, of course.

Thanks Naomi - I hadn't heard of it.

Since you mention Haddon and late middle-aged MC's, would you therefore call his A Spot Of Bother dick lit?

I find it odd that so many books are supposedly aimed at men or women. I can see that some are clearly aimed in one direction, but to me most seem aimed at both genders. But I've never been one to see gender divide everywhere.

Deb

Yup, deb, that was the book quoted in the definition. Obviously it's a marketing thing, and probably determines the choice of cover - a photographic collage for the men, and a pastel sketch for the ladies

Isn't another difference that chick lit is for younger women that Women's fiction?

I would have said that writers like Maeve Binchy, Rosamund Pilcher et al are aimed at an older group of women than the chick lit authors are - apologies if I'm wrong

Katerina

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than not that!

My fingers aren't working properly this morning

Lad-lit?

I like Old-fart lit myself! I want to write Old-Fart-Lit!

Jen
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What about fiction for goths - candle-lit!

geddit? eh? eh? geddit?

hahahahah!!

fiction for the undecided and hard to place or whatchamacal-lit.

Jen
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Old fart-lit

Jen, you don't write 'em, you light 'em.
Sorry, I just had to say that

How about one with a Victor Meldrew character:
Sad git-lit

Or if PG Woodhouse was writing today:
Twit-lit

that was the book quoted in the definition. Obviously it's a marketing thing

Oh, interesting - thanks Naomi. So does that mean they expect that book to appeal to men and not women? Don't know if you've read it but I find that very surprising since I didn't find it particularly male in style at all. I thought it would appeal to lots of people of both genders but it is fundamentally about relationships, which is usually thought of as a more female area.

There are (IIRC) two male viewpoint characters and two female viewpoint characters and all 4 are given roughly equal weight. One (a man in his 60s) stands out as the MC, but only very slightly, and some may not think so - I thought so because it's him that has the spot of bother from the title, and a lot of it revolves around him having a breakdown, but from four different family members' POVs.

Deb

I'm wanting to read this Haddon book now!



Old git-lit! I don't believe it -lit!

Jen
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does that mean they expect that book to appeal to men and not women?

I expect they are hoping it'll appeal to men as well as women, rather than just women.

Ah - thanks Naomi.

Deb