In Christian chick lit, God trumps sex, booze
March 19, 2006
BY DEBRA PICKETT
SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST

Start with your average chick lit novel. Then remove the sex, booze, cigarettes and tangled remains of old relationships. Then add God.

Christian chick lit is, I suppose, an idea whose time has come. There is a certain wisdom, demographically speaking, in publishing books that will appeal to women of faith: an echo of the enormously popular "Left Behind" series, but with cute shoes and nail polish.

Mainstream romance author Tamara Leigh's first foray into the Christian chick lit market, Stealing Adda (NavPress, 464 pages, $12.99), seems poised to push this odd little subgenre into mass-market consciousness. story