Urban Lit

Chick lit: no. Urban lit: si. Soft porn for the ladies: si, si! I thought of this the other day when I saw an ad for writers with African American experience to produce urban lit novels for someone else. Well, to be brutally honest, what I thought was, "There's no way I could fake that one!" See this New York Post piece on Teri Woods and her thriving publishing empire based on the mean streets. The "soft porn" is a reference to the new Harlequin imprint, Spice, much racier than the romances this publisher has been so famous for. (A preposition is still a bad word to end a sentence with, but sometimes it just fits.)