Of interest:
HarperCollins has announced the launch of Angry Robot, a publishing venture designed to "provide the global science fiction/fantasy community with new content both in physical and digital form." The venture will be involved in ecommerce, print on demand, digital and traditional retail trade publishing of science fiction and fantasy fiction. The venture will be overseen by Marc Gascoigne – former Publisher of the Solaris and Black Library imprints at Games Workshop PLC and will be based in Nottingham, England. Its first titles are expected to be released in June 2009. Plans are to release two books a month, moving to three titles a month within two years. Books will be offered as paperbacks, digital audio and ebooks, as well as some hardcovers and trade paper titles. Older titles will be offered as print on demand. Read more about the venture at [link]
Remember when The Blair Witch Project came out? Many fans of the film (who didn't quite understand that the whole thing was made up) descended on the town in Maryland where the movie was set and filmed in and bemused most of the townspeople.
I think Roslyn (the NE town) did, too.
They did, and we still had people coming up and demanding to go to Cicely.
I own a T-Shirt from the Brick. But going to a location is different than going to a place because it was named in a book, because real folks (the actors) were really there.
Although I know there is a HUGE fandom which goes to Prince Edward Island on "Anne of Green Gables" tours. Many of them from Japan, I hear.
Although I know there is a HUGE fandom which goes to Prince Edward Island on "Anne of Green Gables" tours. Many of them from Japan, I hear.
Tourism is a major industry for the Island, so they totally milk Anne for all it's worth.
That in itself sounds like a Maurice project...remember the one with the Japanese couples and the N. Lights?
I also think there is a difference between going into a coffee shop and ordering their cherry pie, and asking to buy the clothes off the back of a stranger. (The stranger being a teenage girl adds to the Craxy, but pretty insane even if the person approached was an adult.)
Although I know there is a HUGE fandom which goes to Prince Edward Island on "Anne of Green Gables" tours. Many of them from Japan, I hear.
Similarly Haworth is TOTALLY Brontedelic, and High Withins (the place upon which Wuthering Heights is based) has flocks upon flocks of tourists prowling around. Many many many of them Japanese. But that's not quite the same thing.
I also think there is a difference between going into a coffee shop and ordering their cherry pie, and asking to buy the clothes off the back of a stranger.
God, yes. Geeking out to one's own heart's content is one thing; imposing one's fannishness on innocent bystanders in a scary & intrusive fashion, otoh...not so much with the cool.
