I've seen authors also specifically post that they do not want to be sent fanfic about their characters, and they do not want to see people making money from same.
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hippocampus - Apr 16, 2011 12:37:27 pm PDT #14493 of 28293
not your mom's socks.
sj - Apr 16, 2011 4:58:06 pm PDT #14494 of 28293
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Has anyone here read any of the Nursery-Track Mysteries by Ayelet Waldman? I'm currently reading Nursery Crimes and finding it very funny and entertaining.
sumi - Apr 17, 2011 4:54:01 am PDT #14495 of 28293
Art Crawl!!!
I don't know why somebody would send an author fan-fic using characters they invented. It seems. . . odd. And do people make money from fanfic?
Consuela - Apr 17, 2011 4:20:48 pm PDT #14496 of 28293
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I don't know why somebody would send an author fan-fic using characters they invented.
Some people think they're honoring the original writer by showing them how creative they are in response. I know some tv writers who actually get a big kick out of fic for shows they've written. Not everyone is that cool, though, and I think it's different for novelists than for tv writers, who share credit/authorship with a lot of other people. You have to be less territorial to be in tv.
And do people make money from fanfic?
Rarely. I've seen some people try to sell their stuff on Lulu or Amazon; if they get noticed by fandom, someone raises a stink and gets it shut down. More often, people file off the serial numbers and try to sell it as original work; there's a bunch of lesbian romances on Amazon that started as Xena/Gabrielle uberfic, for instance.
And as we've talked about in the past, there's plenty of stuff with a strong fannish history, like Naomi Novik's Temeraire novels.
§ ita § - Apr 17, 2011 4:27:25 pm PDT #14497 of 28293
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I wonder if the people who object to fanfic object as much to fanart? I see a lot more money being exchanged for that, but as a recipient, you get a thing.
I'm stunned by some of the things I see people offering for sale on Deviant Art, though. Prints of themselves as demons? Crappy porny photomanips of actors and not characters? Seriously? There's an actual *market* for that? I do wonder if they sell.
Amy - Apr 17, 2011 4:31:16 pm PDT #14498 of 28293
Because books.
I'm not sure I'd really mind if someone made money off fanart of my characters. It's not something I could do anyway, so more power to them?
Copyright laws have pretty much taken care of using someone else's characters in a big traditional publishing way. It's just the idea that rankles, I guess.
Jesse - Apr 17, 2011 4:37:08 pm PDT #14499 of 28293
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm currently reading a mystery set in 1905 that has some scenes that feel an awful lot like Criminal Minds fic. Makes me wonder....
Amy - Apr 17, 2011 4:43:52 pm PDT #14500 of 28293
Because books.
What is it? I love historical mystery.
Jesse - Apr 17, 2011 4:48:34 pm PDT #14501 of 28293
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's called In the Shadow of Gotham. It's just OK -- most of the stuff bugging me is stuff like this profiling (really, 1905?) and people talking about why a woman would have trouble getting an academic job in math -- like that needs to be discussed in 1905??
Connie Neil - Apr 17, 2011 4:52:20 pm PDT #14502 of 28293
brillig
There's a published Original Series Star Trek novel that's fairly clearly set in the world of a 70s TV show called "Here Come The Brides." I remember reading it and thinking, "I know these people."