jean c

http://www.nydailynews.com/07-17-2003/city_life/thersday/story/101474p-91842c.html

Beyond Bridget

Chick lit gets heavy

By MELENA Z. RYZIK

Move over, Bridget Jones! There's a new chick-lit heroine in town, and
she's just as likely to sport saddlebags as stilettos.

Think of it as "fat chick" lit. Ever since Helen Fielding's "Bridget
Jones's Diary" all but created the chick-lit genre in 1998, there has
been an onslaught of novels about size-8 singletons searching for the
perfect man. And even if these girls-in-the-city wore - gasp! - a
double-digit size, they'd diet before book's end. But in a slew of new
works, the central characters are getting their man without giving up
their cake.

"I've seen a trend for not just average-sized, but large-sized
characters," says Margaret Marbury, a senior editor at Red Dress Ink, a
chick-lit imprint owned by Harlequin. Red Dress is planning to release
several books with plus-size protagonists in the coming year, including
"Inappropriate Men," which has a size-24 siren who isn't afraid to be ***y.

"What fascinated me when I first saw this book is that the character had
such self-confidence and *** appeal," says Marbury. "She doesn't at all
try to lose weight or make any excuses for who she is."

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Jean C
"Life is a big canvas, throw all the paint on it you can."
Danny Kaye
http://www.uidaho.edu/~bjcraw/

daedalus

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:48:24 -0700, Jean C <JeanC_38@yahoo.com>, eater
of small children, spat out a gristle gob and said:


As nauseating as this concept sounds, the point of fiction IS to
escape reality.

Jade

snort

Yeah, that's exactly why it is a FICTIONAL BOOK/MOVIE. She doesn't try to lose weight because she doesn't exist. In the
REAL world, fat people are not accepted "just the way they are", but are in fact shunned as unattractive gluttons. So you
have two choices, make the effort to push away from the trough or remain huge and unwanted.

This is how it should be.

HTH

S*nort


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amazon

Thanks for the heads-up! This should be interesting. :-)
--
aMAZon
zeszutko at nycap.rr.com
"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."

jean c

You're welcome. I'm definately going to be on the look out for a number
of the books mentioned. One that wasn't mentioned is the Ordelia Gray
mysteries. Sue Ann Jaffarian ( http://www.sueannjaffarian.com/index.html
) writes those, there is one out already and it looks like the 2nd one
is just out.

I do need to get caught up with Lynn Murray's Josephine Fuller series. I
tried to get the latest one via interlibary loan, but it is so new and
in demand the libraries that own it aren't letting them get sent to
other libraries.

Jean C
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"
Eleanor Roosevelt
http://www.uidaho.edu/~bjcraw/

snort

Jean C, what is your ass size in proper axe-handle notation?

HTH

S*nort

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lenore levines corpse

I wrote a similar book. In it a big beautiful woman is courted by the
crown princes of europe, but rejects them all for Mr. Universe.
But Mr. Universe, a six foot three billionaire adonis, is not alone in his
out of control lust for our BBW heroine's cheesy love folds and succulent
twat marinated hams. For she is being stalked by the nefarious Count
Pissenziegwassenyugen. When the Donut of Power is stolen by the count Mr.
Universe does battle with him in a titanic clash atop the Krispy Kreme
monument. At the end the Count is defeated when the Donut of Power is bitten
from his wrist - along with his hand! - by Uma, the food crazed anorexic
supermodel who has been driven mad by losing all her triathelete millionaire
boyfriends to big beautiful women, who then falls to her death in the fires
of the world's largest donut fry vat, destroying the Donut of Power and
freeing the portly people of Rock Candy Mountain from the oppression of the
Dark Lord's Weight Watcher army.

While Radiant Boars Magazine gave the manuscript a four and a half ham
rating, all the mainstream publishers rejected it. I had to spend four weeks
at the buffet to recover from the trauma.

Now that publishers are coming around I'd like submit it again.

Unfortunately I'm dead.

Lenore Levine

lenore levines corpse

No. Do you think he stood me up?

Lenore Levine

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I think he's just pining for the fjords.

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