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?
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.
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.
I imagine this Bennett woman has never read anything by Gregory Maguire.
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.
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.
I did not know that! Temeraire was Aubrey, I'd imagine. That reminds me -- I really need to read the last 2 books.
And how much fantasy started out as Lord of the Rings fic? Including one very famous endless series. No not that one. The other one.