Hi everyone!
As part of the Women’s Fiction Writers Association, (WFWA) I’m so excited to participate in the fourth annual Women’s Fiction Day coming up on June 8th! ????
This is a day when writers and readers alike share in their love of a special genre called Women’s Fiction. ????
Many (and I mean many!) ask, what makes a story women’s fiction? The WFWA has the best description, I think, and it’s this: “Women’s fiction is a writing genre that includes layered stories in which the plot is driven by the main character’s emotional journey. The stories can be contemporary or historical, and may have magical, mystery, thriller, romance, or other elements.”
I loved the facts they provided about the genre as well. Like, did you know it “consistently ranks in the upper quadrant of Amazon sales for top titles, sales/day of the top titles and competition with more than 219,000 titles?”
To help celebrate, I plan to contribute a special bundle of gifts to one lucky reader to include:
- Signed/personalized copy of THE SAINTS OF SWALLOW HILL
- Pine cone necklace and earrings, (I’ve been wearing similar jewelry to my events!)
- $10 gift card (not shown, I have to go get it! ☺)
- Dear Reader letter
- Themed recipe card (for water pie – it’s in the book!)
- Themed quote card
- Bookmarks!
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For a chance to win this bundle, ON JUNE 8th, (not before!) comment here on my blog, or on social media, (be sure to tag me!) and tell me what you love about Women’s Fiction! Is it the journey, (as mentioned above), is it seeing a character succeed after many failures, is it learning something new, or inspiring, or . . . what?
I hope everyone will help celebrate the day! Be on the lookout for other authors who are also celebrating with great giveaways.
It should be a LOT of fun! Stay tuned!
I love to read woman’s fiction because of the journey the main character is on and what and how she gets out of the situation she is in.
I like to read women’s fiction, because it gives me a chance to learn about different women’s lives and visit new places at the same time.
like to find out about the characters’ lives
I would like to start by saying reading has always been my happy place.
As a child, I started by reading those Dick and Jane books, not sure you’ll know what that is.
As I got older, Archie Comic Books were my everything. I’d pretend I was Betty’s friend, and I’d defend her, every time Veronica would be mean to her.
We would go for ice cream and to dances and have loads of fun.
When I became a mom, I rarely had time for reading (unless it was to my four kiddos!). Bedtime stories were a must, and I believe I instilled the love for reading to my children because they enjoyed this special time we shared together, each one.
Often times, I’d volunteer to read in their classrooms and it became a thing.
Before long, I was reading chapter books by Louis Sachar or Roald Dahl to their classrooms.
Now, I’m a proud yaya (grandmother) to 8 beautiful boys. Yes. You read that right, it’s not a typo… 8. (Smile.)
One granddarling lives with me, and I read to him a whole lotta.
He also enjoys those authors but his favorites would be Dav Pilkey and Patricia Polacco.
These days, when I find time to read for myself, I delve into your stories and also those of Jennifer Weiner.
It allows me to escape from reality and go to that familiar place I knew as a child, my happy place.
I really love womens fiction because you are on a journey across the state with some historical news of what happened in the past and present. A look of changes of history. It’s quite interesting due to you are talking about that one main character whose has highes and lows of her adventure and usually has great endings but no matter how they end it still was a great book to read. I mean women have happenings in their lives also as much as men. It takes you on a journey and goes along the book smoothly by keeping you interested.
It is definitely the characters story of how they succeed or overcome