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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."
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.
Heck, the Temeraire series basically started as an Aubrey/Maturin AU (although Dana would know better than me).
Yup.
I did not know that! Temeraire was Aubrey, I'd imagine. That reminds me -- I really need to read the last 2 books.
Temeraire was Stephen.
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.
Temeraire was Stephen.
But Temeraire is so much more Aubrey-like in personality! Too exuberant and not so much with the caution, etc.
If I recall, the first Vorkosigan book was started as a filed-off-serial numbers Star Trek fic.