Women’s Fiction Writers is a place for writers of women’s fiction to connect.
We might love chick lit, but we don’t write it. We might love romance, but we don’t write that either. Same goes for zombies and vampires. We write extraordinary yet realistic characters in realistic and extraordinary situations. If our main characters have love interests, it’s a bonus.
In our books, as in all books, the main character’s journey leads to an ultimate goal.
But in our books — the main character saves herself.
I’ve been writing women’s fiction for about four years now and have not come upon a genre-specific group that meets my needs. So like my main characters, I figured I’d just have to make it happen myself.
Oh, and here we focus mainly on traditionally published authors and their traditionally published books — being it large, medium, small or e-publisher — if you have been published by someone else — email me about being interviewed. Check the list of participating authors, you’ll be in great company! If you’re self-published, consider writing a craft post as a way to be featured.
Either way, we’re all after the same thing…great women’s fiction with all its permutations and detours, with its touches of romance, magic, literary prose or humor — or anything else!
Welcome!

Beautiful and fun new site, Amy! Very excited.
And this part really resounded with me, must keep it in mind: But in our books — the main character saves herself.
Hi Janna! I think (as you know) that when we keep in mind that our main characters save themselves — we can really write a very thorough and fulfilling story that leads up to that.
<3
Amy
Hi Amy! This is a great site. I write women’s fiction too. The authors I love most address real women’s issues while still being funny, like Marian Keyes and Jennifer Weiner. I’m rewriting my manuscript right now (again!) and have been working on it for two years. But I hope to finish and begin the agent search again very soon. Nice to meet you =)
Hi Meredith!
Good luck with your latest revisions. I’m in revision mode too — and hope to get the whole thing back to my agent by the end of April. Or May.
So I know how you feel!!
Welcome!
Amy
Wow. I like the statement that in our books – the main character saves herself. Resonates with me and is exactly the idea behind my first novel.
I’m so glad!! Welcome to WFW!

Amy
Hi,
THis is a great site. I’m looking forward to reading more of your posts.
Janie
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Hi,
This is a great site. I’m looking forward to more of your posts.
Janie
Welcome, Janie!
Amy! I love your new site! This is awesome, and the sentence about women saving themselves…love love love that. It actually just drove home something I have to do in my current new wip. This is a fantastic place, like finding a wonderful old chair and a quilt and curling up with some spiced tea. I’ll be back!
Sharla,

I’m so glad you found us!!
Amy
Love this, Amy! So happy to have found this site and community! I write women’s fiction as well, so really looking forward to hanging out here with these ladies.
Welcome, Beth! Can’t wait to get to know you!

Amy
Thanks for kick-starting this blog… and what a great genre that needs so many more resources. I’ll be visiting often. Good luck with this.
Thanks, Kerry!
Keep watching the site — I already have guest bloggers and interviews (all published women’s fiction authors, or authors about to debut) lined up through mid-June!

Amy
Amy, what a wonderful site. I’m looking to learning about what others say about women’s fiction as well as discovering some new authors and their books.
Thank you, Sheila. Welcome!
Amy
Nice new blog, Amy! I’ll bookmark it. Enjoyed the posts already up, and I’m looking forward to all the good stuff coming down the pike!
Glad you enjoyed the posts so far, Julie! Hope you’ll stop back!

Amy
Women’s fiction is my genre. Glad to have landed here!
~ Wendy
Welcome Wendy!
Hi– This site/blog is GREAT! I’m so glad I found it.
“I’ve been writing women’s fiction for about four years now and have not come upon a genre-specific group that meets my needs. So like my main characters, I figured I’d just have to make it happen myself.”
LOVE THIS! I feel the same way. I started writing women’s fiction not quite a year ago, and I have many, many wonderful writer friends who write romance and paranormal romance. But I’ve yet to come across a community that fits so perfectly with the market I’m currently targeted.
Thank you so much for this blog!
sincerely
tina
Hi Tina,

Welcome! I’m glad you found us. Hope you’ll chime in around here. It’s always nice to have like-minded writers around us, isn’t it?
Amy
Love this blog! I’m a newbie women’s fiction writer, so much of the information here interests to me. Thanks for creating this!
Hi Adrienne,
You’re most welcome! Can’t wait to see more of you around here! Good luck with your novel.

Amy
Hello from a fellow women’s fiction writer! Looking forward to reading more here.
Camille,
I think I remember you from Backspace, yes? no? Welcome! I hope you’ll chime in – and maybe do an interview or guest post if you’re interested. I think I also remember you have a book coming out!
All the best,
Amy
Hi all,
Love your space here….just stumbled upon it. Women that save themselves…all of our heroines do that….and how many times have we dont that ourselves?
Thanks for being here as I research my first born.
Kathryn A.
Thanks to Jennifer Willis for tweeting about this site. I publish Susan Barnett’s fiction. She is the host of 51%, the Women’s Perspective on NPR, and author of a short story collection called “The View From Outside.”
Do you have an RSS feed?
Good luck,
Rick Tannenbaum
Hi Rick,
Thanks for the note – I’m going to check out 51%. I’m a big NPR listener and fan. I added a link on the blog for the RSS feed. I hope it works!
All the best,
Amy
Amy,
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I just discovered your blog — love it!!
So glad there’s a place out here just for women’s fiction
Adding you to my blog roll right now!
~Marilyn
Hello,
I was so thrilled to find this website specifically geared towards women’s fiction. I’m a newbie when it comes to writing fiction, as well as a late bloomer who’s currently pushing 50. My grad degree genre was in poetry, but I later discovered how much I wanted to write my novel.
I absolutely love your comment on not being able to find a genre-specific group and just making it happen. Wow, women writers are so innovative -aren’t we?
I’m looking forward to connecting with others here and hope there is room for one more. It’s nice to be in like-minded company.
Cheers,
Kathryn
Welcome, Kathryn! Nice to have you here!

Amy
Love it, love it, love it! That’s exactly how I feel, although I did publish a chick lit and a romance. But my true writing self is women’s fiction, with my own twist.
Thank you for your dedication to this, Amy.
Any advice on finding a mentor for my writing? My novel Broad Street Goddesses has been revised and revised again. Just when I thought it was perfect I recieved my first rejection from an agent with some helpful tips on pumping it up. My friends, quite honestly, have had thier belly full of my requests for help, especially after the third revision. I think they feel they’re legally required to love, Love, LOVE my book, so they have no criticism for me.
Thanks in advance for your help
DeAnna Carol Williams
Hi Amy,
I came upon your site when I googled women’s fiction writing groups. I am looking to start/join a critique group for women writing Women’s Fiction. The group i’m in now has writers who are penning all sorts of work and I really would like to work with a group who is focused on Women’s Fiction. I have found lots of romance groups but nothing for WF.
Any ideas on how to connect to a genre specific group?
My email is Cerrissakim@gmail.com if anyone is interested and wants to contact me directly.
Thanks so much and great site!!
Cerrissa
What a treasure of a blog to find!!
When people ask what genre my novel falls into I used to always stammer trying to find an answer.
Suspense? Yeah there’s suspense and an element of mystery but it’s more about the female protagonist’s journey.
Romance? Sure, there’s some of that as well but that’s not the focus.
Paranormal? No. Well, there’s this game with goddesses and monsters.
Adventure. Lots of that but …
Chicklit? Not really. Okay, there’s a little bit about fashion and the main charachters are in their twenties, and there’s some pop culture references but Kate really doesn’t like to wear high heels.
and on and on
I liked the definition above “In our books, as in all books, the main character’s journey leads to an ultimate goal. But in our books — the main character saves herself.”
Yea!!! Now I know what to say.
Hi Sharon! Welcome to WFW, I’m so glad you like it here! Explaining our work can be arduous, but when someone says “Oh!” and seems to get it, it’s so worth it!
Hope to see you again!
Amy
Hi–
I was so happy to find this group! Looking forward to joining everyone!
Yair…hello folks, are blokes allowed on here? I am an old(ish) Australian bushman working on a hundred thousand word work of contemporary Australian Outback Women’s fiction…written in the first person from the male perspective.
….uumm does that sound reasonable?
HI, I like your blog a lot! I write Regency historical romance for St. Martin’s Press, and I have to say that I’ve found that in the romances of at least the past decade, the female protagonist saves herself, too. Only then can she make a true love connection. So the idea of the empowered woman is not limited to women’s fiction. I also see it in a lot of chick lit.
Ladies, let it be said that women are taking care of business across MANY genres!!!
And yay for that.
:>)
Kieran,
What great insight!! Welcome to WFW!!

Amy
I am so glad that I found this blog! I am in the beginning stages of writing my first women’s fiction novel. Actually, this is my very first time writing a novel period. So I’m very excited about stumbling upon your site while searching for information about women’s fiction. I’ll be a regular reader.
I wish I had found this site months ago when I started the querying process! I didn’t really know what genre my work was – it had elements of fantasy, but wasn’t fantasy; had elements of romance, but wasn’t a romance. You describe it so well – it’s women’s literature! Thank you for this site! It’s wonderful!
Hi. I’m new to this site (as of this morning) and had put my Women’s Fiction stories from Europe on the shelf in order to finish a Romantic Suspense. Now I’m ready to bring back the women. I loved reading that a woman’s ultimate goal is save herself. A question though. How far does/can the romance go in Women’s Fiction? For sure no spicy love scenes right?
Thank you for this site. I will be a faithful follower.
Kay
I would like to know about female authors who specialize in historical fiction. How would I find that? Thank you!
I’d start with Google, I guess. Do you want historical romance? Literary historical fiction? narrow your parameters as much as possible. Good luck!
Look into Mary Mackey and Rowena Williamson. Mary was one of my CW professors at Sac State – her many historical fictions are so well researched, and characters so convincing, it leaves you thinking, this has GOT to be a biography. Same thing with Rowena’s work. She’s fairly new on the published writer scene, but there’s more coming in the form of sequels. Check them out – you won’t be sorry!
Such fun. I followed a link — don’t we love links that point us to new friends? — from Writer Unboxed on Facebook and found this delightful blog. I write WF from a sailor’s perspective, but I’m also an acquiring editor for an indie press–tradional, not self–which means, I’m always looking for quality fiction that fits into our guidelines. (She rubs her palms together and grins.)
After reading this I will get the piles of papers down from the shelf & begin to finish the stories I started about seven women from seven different countries who meet by chance one
day.
Happy writing.
CK
I’ve written my first novel, currently on Amazon Kindle and book form called A WINTER DANDELION. It’s definately Contemporary Women’s Fiction. It’s doing very well and I have an agent reading it now. I’m happy to have found this site and excited to meet other indie writers. Thanks so much for helping us all connect!
I found you through Andrea Hurst who will be doing an interview with you on her blog: Andrea Hurst Literay Management. This is a wonderful new site and from the response you are getting, it looks like you have already created what the genre requires: women saving themselves. Well Done and best wishes on this new endeavor. May it live long and inspire many.
AH! I received your email before seeing your comments. I was confused because WFW is about 14 months old, so to me, it’s not new anymore. But I understand it’s new to you! I’m happy to look at info about any WF authors – just send me the links and I’ll poke around on the author’s website and see if it’s a good fit. Thanks for chiming in, and welcome!!
~ Amy