CHICK LIT: IF THE IMMORAL SECULAR YOUNG CHICKS ...

... of our nation get their Chick Lit, why shouldn't Godly, moral young women get their own? That's the question "Anne Dayton and May Vanderbilt, two single career women in their mid-20s," asked themselves.

Vanderbilt and Dayton joked that there should be chick lit for Christians like them, whose faith might be strong but whose single-girl imperfections loom just as large. "Everyone thought it was a hilarious idea," Dayton says. "Chick lit is about sex and dating and shopping, and Christians don't do those things." [...]

Six months later, the two church-going women (a Presbyterian and an Episcopalian), living and working in New York, started to write "Emily Ever After." It's the story of a small-town single girl struggling to balance her religious values with her big-city life. It's also the biblical story of Esther, but with designer handbags and cocktails. And it was one of the first Christian chick lit books to ignite a hot market of similar big sellers.

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