The light, comic, tone and female protaganist does seem to be pretty prevelant these days.  That whole sarcastic, butt-kicking female lead has made it into a few genres the past couple years.  Of course it's likely a trend that has peaked and to try and write that would mean near impossibility getting published. 

I have attempted a little different approach with my novel, and have alternating first-person pov's between the male and female mc's.  It's certainly a challenge to write more than one first-person pov in the same story and make sure you keep the characters clearly defined.  That has probably been my biggest challenge in writing this story, and I hope it works because I kind of like writing this way, even if it tends to be viewed as kind of a no-no.

Hello everyone.  My name is Jim, and like everyone else here, I'm an aspiring writer too.  I've been writing off and on, mostly on for the past 3 or 4 years, for the past 25 years.  Fantasy was my first love as far as writing went, and I have the rough on the first book in a trilogy, the epic sort with a fairly large cast of characters being drawn together to avert a war that occurs every millenia thanks to a goddess who has a panic attack anytime a culture gets advanced enough to threaten the belief system.

Currently I am editing a paranormal suspense involving a troubled fbi agent who gets caught in the middle between two vampires, one who is exacting a century long scheme of vengeance upon the other. I am editing like mad at the moment because I have an agent who wishes me to send the whole ms to him.