The Highest Tide - this looks like an interesting/enjoyable book and it's the Kindle Deal of the Day.
Looks neat. I just grabbed the sample. Man, I love browsing a book before I buy.
Okay, I am intrigued. Buying.
I want to torture you. I used to love it, and it's been a long time. I mean, the last time I tortured someone, they didn't even have chainsaws.
Angel ,'Chosen'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Cass - Jan 14, 2012 10:49:15 am PST #17425 of 28266
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Anne W. - Jan 15, 2012 4:18:47 pm PST #17426 of 28266
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
This video is mesmerizing. I can imagine my books getting up to this while I sleep.
§ ita § - Jan 15, 2012 6:57:36 pm PST #17427 of 28266
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Has anyone heard about this where a novel that started out as Twilight fanfic has had the serial numbers filed off and is going for publication.
Which begs the question, as author Jenn Bennett asked: Can fiction first written as fan fiction—no matter how far from the original source it diverges—ever be ethical?
Seriously? You think The Wide Sargasso sea is unethical? Did you mention that to someone earlier?
Consuela - Jan 15, 2012 7:09:56 pm PST #17428 of 28266
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Has anyone heard about this where a novel that started out as Twilight fanfic has had the serial numbers filed off and is going for publication
This happens ALL THE TIME. Amazon is full of lesbian romances that started as Xena/Gabrielle fic.
Heck, the Temeraire series basically started as an Aubrey/Maturin AU (although Dana would know better than me).
And there's nothing at all unethical about it. Pfeh.
§ ita § - Jan 15, 2012 7:16:08 pm PST #17429 of 28266
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Temeraire is a great example. I mean, people try it all the time, but it usually doesn't get anywhere. Novik did.
UNETHICAL???
I'm still @@ over here.
Aims - Jan 15, 2012 7:17:50 pm PST #17430 of 28266
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I imagine this Bennett woman has never read anything by Gregory Maguire.
§ ita § - Jan 15, 2012 7:23:24 pm PST #17431 of 28266
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Apparently some of the description of Christian's character is close wording enough to what Meyer used for Edward that someone I know sussed it out as fic, and *that* is both an issue and crappy fanfic. But she says that's about it.
meara - Jan 15, 2012 7:34:54 pm PST #17432 of 28266
Well, plus it sounds like it's not that she wrote a story about a high school girl and a vampire and a werewolf...it's seriously AU stuff, which is less of an issue, I'd think. I was a bit amused by the person in the comments being all indignant about her "using" the fanfic community to sell her work or something.
Dana - Jan 15, 2012 7:36:56 pm PST #17433 of 28266
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Heck, the Temeraire series basically started as an Aubrey/Maturin AU (although Dana would know better than me).
Yup.
Vonnie K - Jan 15, 2012 7:48:37 pm PST #17434 of 28266
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
I did not know that! Temeraire was Aubrey, I'd imagine. That reminds me -- I really need to read the last 2 books.