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Host a THIS IS CHICK-LIT Signing or Event

If you’re a bookstore manager and would like to schedule a signing/reading or have an organization that would like to host a TICL event, please contact Laura Watkins at (214) 750-465 or laura AT benbellabooks.com.

Media

To request a review copy, media materials or to schedule an interview with Lauren Baratz-Logsted or a contributor, please contact Laura Watkins at (214) 750-4656 or laura AT benbellabooks.com. Check TICL News and Events, for updated coverage.

In the news

• Craig's List, Boston: "Chick-Lit Meet-Up" featuring This is Chick-Lit
  (Big TICL kisses go to comm-219595355@craigslist.org)

• From katbrow's journal: "There's nothing wrong with chick-lit. Nothing at all."

• Trashionista.com (enter to win a free copy of TICL!)
  - The Trashionista.com Review
  - Lauren guest blogs: "I Never Set Out to be a Chick-Lit Writer"
  - "Trashionista"  interviews Lauren
  - Waxes Nostalgic (for new) Nancy Drew

• "Drunk Writer Talk": "The whole chick lit debate"

• Library Journal Blogger Wilda Williams: "chicks just want r-e-s-p-e-c-t" (she also comes up with an interesting way to resolve the argument, we think she watched Old School recently.)

• Bookviews.com, October selection: "...this book will prove a delight to any reader." (scroll WAY down to read it)

• Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant (edrants.com)
  - (new!)  "This is/This is not" makes it into his "Literary Hipsters Handbook, Q4 2006"
  - "Another day, another assault on chick lit"
  - More from edrants.com: Not a fan of Merrick
  - Even more from edrants.com: REALLY not a fan of Merrick

• THE FUNNY PAPERS! Patricia Storms renders an "edifying" interpretation of the chick-lit argument in "The Three Jonathans" | What prompted her to do the strip?

• Lauren talks TICL on M.J. Rose and Jessica Keener's "Backstory"

• PW reviews TICL: “This round up of 18 chick lit tales offers plenty of enthusiasm and creativity...” and “…undeniably lively, inventive stories...”

• Mindy Klasky offers "Virtual Cocktails" and her take on the debate

• TICL contributor, Harley Jane Kozak, addresses the age old question to authors, "Is this about me?"

• "Red Shoe Ramblings" reviews our book, well, with a red shoe on the cover

• "Poptart" Pops-off on TICL

• "Role Mommy Book Club:" "Calling all Chick lit lovers!"

• "Veronika" interviews Lauren Baratz-Logsted - Veronika's review of TICL

• Village Voice's Rachel Aviv gives a brief look at TICL

• Grazi! "Chick-lit planet di Francesca Mazzucato" discusses TICL

• Although the chat on Romance Divas is over, revisit the conversation anytime. (link)

• Author of Venus Envy, Shannon McKelden: "This IS Chick-Lit ... thank goodness!"

• Shanna Swendson has a few thoughts on the "dig" piece by ANONYMOUS on "2 B Read"  (link to the "dig" article if you missed it before)

• "Sanctuary's Finest:" A review in two (or three) parts

• Straight from the "Pod-dy Mouth:" "This is super stuff."

• "Demented Delusions" enjoys the book, but declares "There are no winners in the chick-lit debate"

• "Bookburger" "told you so" (and worked in the word kerfuffle, brava!)

• THE Meg Cabot: "Ms. Fielding could refresh her knowledge of the genre she is often touted as having invented by reading this ..."

• "Amanda Ramblings:" "Chick Lit vs. Literary Chicks"

• "Raspberry Latte:" "Spending time with this book is a lot like spending an afternoon with your girlfriends."

• "GalleyCat" connects the dots and attempts to out "Screwscan/Anonymous Editor"

• "KT Buffy a-go-go:" Another mention of the "Anonymous Editor"

• Helen Kay Dimon: "The Ranting of Chick"

• TICL is Fresh Fiction's Pick of the Day (September 3)

• Thanks for the mention, Jennifer! She thinks Lauren makes "Joyce Carol Oates look like a lazy slacker" (she's joking people!)

• Lauren gets memed

• "GalleyCat" and defense of the genre: aka "More Stupid Criticisms of Chick Lit"

• From The Hudson Reporter: "Something for 'Chicks' to Read"

• Orlando Sentinel's "Shakespeare's Coffee" blog: Her response to "Fall of Western Civilization -- Stilettos"

• Read Lauren's latest Amazon Blog

• "Living Read Girl"
  - Review
  - Interview with Lauren Baratz-Logsted
  - Opinions on the IS vs. NOT debate

• "MysteryMommy" Review of THIS IS CHICK-LIT

• *LISTEN LIVE* Rachel Pine will be interviewed live on ABC Radio Network's Satellite Sisters, Monday, August 28.
  - About the show
  - Where to listen

• Thoughts from "adventures in writing"

• "Randy Writes Romance," and about THIS IS CHICK-LIT

• Cynthia Harrison of "Garage Band" interviews Deanna Carlyle

• Lauren Baratz-Logsted's weekly Amazon blog

• "So Many Books" offers so many thoughts on the debate (read the comments, too)

• "The Bennett Madison Experience": "Shoes Aside!!"

• Lauren Baratz-Logsted takes a turn on "the way there"

• THIS IS CHICK-LIT contributor, Rachel Pine squares off with This is Not Chick-Lit editor Elizabeth Merrick. HuffingtonPost.com' s Rachel Skylar opens up the discussion

• "Bookdwarf" hates our cover, but has some interesting thoughts on the debate

• Monica Jackson doesn't mince words

• Alumni magazine, UConn Traditions,  interviews Lauren Baratz-Logsted

• Kyra Davis:  "So now I'm pissed."

• Tracy Clark-Flory has this to say in Salon's Broadsheet

• Media Bistro's "GalleyCat": "One More Fight: Chicks vs. Not Chicks"

• A word on the debate from Rebecca Swain Vadne of the Orlando Sentinel

• Helaine Olen opens up a discussion on AlterNet

• Reason Magazine's Tim Cavanaugh weighs in on the debate

• A note from Bookburger "Battle of the All-Girl Anthologies"

• REVIEW: BUST Magazine (Priya Jain)

• Pinky's Paperhaus - "To lit or not to chick lit ..."

• the Scott Stein - Apparently not a fan of Gloria Steinem

• Trashionista - "This is (not?) Chick Lit"

• Check out the "Backstory" sidebar in this New York Magazine book review article

• Stock up! Merrick declares "Chick lit is over."

• Time Out New York talks to Lauren and Leah Wilson, BenBella Books Senior Editor about THIS IS CHICK-LIT

• Chick-Lit to be taught at University of Texas and Harvard this Fall