Familiar and comfortable, yet foreign and new at the same time – why chick lit is Author Lucie Simone’s happy place. Welcome, Lucie, to the Celebration of Chick Lit Tour. I’m so happy to have you on my blog!

Why I Love Chick Lit

By Lucie Simone

Chick Lit is my happy place. With a demanding day job, family obligations, boyfriend dramas, and my creative pursuits, life can sometimes feel overwhelming. But knowing that there is a funny, flirty, smart, and sassy read waiting for me at the end of the day, I can handle it all with grace and poise. Chick Lit allows me to completely forget about my own stressors and escape into a world filled with humor, girlfriends, career pursuits, and romantic dalliances on the way to finding true love (or not). Of course, any good book will draw the reader into its world, offering an escape from the trials of daily life for at least a few hours. But Chick Lit is my go-to genre for when I really need my spirits lifted. Chick Lit features heroines much like myself going through experiences very similar to my own. Reading a Chick Lit novel is akin to spending an afternoon with your best friend and gabbing over lattes and crumb cakes or a night on the town with your closest girlfriends, indulging in colorful cocktails while dancing in toe-crushing stilettos. In other words, it’s fun! But even more than that, it’s relatable. Chick Lit provides the opportunity to walk in another woman’s shoes for a little while and explore her world, one that is just familiar enough to be comforting, but also foreign enough to be exciting and new. Ultimately, Chick Lit just makes me smile. And in my book, there ain’t nothin’ wrong with that.

Lucie Simone

Lucie Simone has a passion for travel, yoga, and all things Chick Lit. She also has a degree in Journalism and a Master of Fine Arts in Television Production. Lucie is the owner of Simon & Fig, a small press which publishes Chick Lit, Lad Lit and Women’s Fiction exclusively. She is the author of two novels, Picture Perfect and Hollywood Ending. She lives in Los Angeles where she is currently at work on her third novel. For more information on Lucie, please visit her website.

Picture Perfect

For Lauren Tate, a high-powered TV producer, sex, lies, and scandal make for a great movie-of-the-week, but when she becomes the target of a smear campaign, even the most salacious of Hollywood’s tales can’t compare to her real life drama. With her soon-to-be-ex-husband leading the effort to sully her reputation, and her former assistant threatening to snatch her hard-earned position at Timeless Television out of her hands, Lauren’s perfectly planned life quickly begins to unravel at the seams.

Clawing her way back to the top of the TV food chain is no easy task, especially in an industry where backstabbing is a sport and gossip is a fulltime business. But Lauren learns just how cutthroat showbiz can truly be when the hottest scandal in Tinsel Town turns deadly and the Hollywood hunk who’s stolen her heart is missing in action. Can she salvage her career, her reputation, and her love life? Or will Hollywood be the death of her?

Available at: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo and iTunes

Novelista Girl – Coming January 6, 2016

Readers first met sassy Kimberly Long in Blogger Girl, and now the feisty New Yorker is back in a sequel packed with quick wit, friendship, heartache, and, of course, romance.

Kim runs the most popular chick lit book blog on the web, loves playing house with her sexy lawyer boyfriend, Nicholas, and is finally pursuing her lifelong dream to become a published author. At first glance, her life is five-pink-champagne-flutes worthy. 

But is there more to the story than meets the eye?

 After hearing the phrase “chick lit is dead” more times than she’s read Bridget Jones’s Diary, Kim is driven to desperate measures, seeking advice from up-and-coming chick lit author, Hannah Marshak, her high school nemesis and resident “mean girl.” As if Kim doesn’t have enough on her plate balancing her secretarial duties with her blog Pastel Is the New Black, shrugging off the growing pile of agent rejections, and keeping her best friend from turning green over Kim’s budding friendship with Hannah, Nicholas is so blinded by his career ambitions, he doesn’t see that their home sweet home could use more than a dash of sugar. 

This is the year when all of Kim’s dreams—professional and romantic—are supposed to come true, but will the story have a happily ever after, or will Kim end up unpublished and all alone?

This novel can be read as a sequel or as a standalone and is best accompanied by a cocktail, preferably a pink one.