Mar 16 2012
I always describe myself as a geek at heart because I’m such a huge fan of cult shows such as Farscape, The X-Files, and Firefly. I’m no stranger to fanfiction and I have read the good, the bad and the ugly. It’s been a fun ride because fanfiction can fill in the missing bits(…)
Mar 15 2012
Sunita talked a bit about why some people write fan fiction. I’d like to talk a bit about my perspective. A little background: I’ve been a reader in many fandoms for about ten years, but I primarily write in one. I also run a fandom community. Legality of fan fics doesn’t really come into it(…)
Mar 14 2012
I’ve been reading genre fiction (romance, mystery, SFF) for a very long time, but I didn’t become aware of fan fiction as a category of writing, much less its role in creating community, until I found internet blogs about fiction writing. Back when I was reading mystery blogs regularly, I ran across a ranting post(…)
Mar 13 2012
Introduction On Saturday, March 10, 2012, New York Times reported that Vintage, a literary imprint of Random House, had won the rights to republish on a large scale the ebook bestseller trilogy: 50 Shades of Grey, 50 Shades of Darker, and 50 Shades of Freed. The first in the series was number 1 on the(…)
Mar 2 2012
News F&W is launching a digital book publishing company that will specialize in releasing digital copies of genre fiction from the 1940s to the 1970s. F+W Media is launching a new digital-only imprint, Prologue Books, that aims to reintroduce readers to previously out-of-print crime, sci-fi/fantasy, romance, western and YA titles published between 1940 and 1970.(…)
Feb 7 2012
This review is being posted in lieu of a morning opinion piece because it is an opinion piece of sorts and because, well, it is verbose. So you get three reviews today. Yay! Dear E.L. James, So I’m pretty much in the minority when it comes to this book as I hated it. Fifty Shades(…)
Jan 23 2012
News 1 in 3 Americans own either an e reader or a tablet. Tablet growth is primarily in upper income households but ereader ownership is more diverse: The story with the growth in e-book readers was somewhat different from the story with tablet computers. Ownership of e-readers among women grew more than among men. Those(…)
Jun 15 2010
I’m a big fan of twitter (@jane_l and @dearauthor folks). One of the best benefits of twitter is that I get to see the links to the hottest news and viral memes as they become part of the internet collective consciousness. This means that when my brother emails me in two months asking me if(…)
Sep 28 2008
I saw this interesting promotion on Book Binge this morning. Linda Wisdom, author of 50 Ways to Hex Your Lover, and the October 1 release, Hex Appeal, and her publisher Sourcebooks, Inc. is offering a prize package for the best fan fiction entry surrounding Wisdom's books. You can go to Book Binge for the details(…)
Sep 18 2008
So apparently Annie Proulx gets a lot of manuscripts sexxing up Brokeback Mountain and she's annoyed. According to "Bill Tancer–an online intelligence agent", Galley Cat got the following quote: There's no way to stop people from interacting with your content. You can ignore or embrace it … to complain about it isn't going to make(…)
Jan 11 2007
The Telegraph Herald is reporting that paragraphs of Thomas Harris’ Hannibal Rising have eerie similarities to fan fiction. Now, I did advocate allowing fan fiction to be written, but I don’t know that it should be read! Send to Kindle
Dec 18 2006
If there is anything that I have learned being online is that many, many authors are in need of a readership. Peter Watts, a critically aclaimed science fiction novelist, is giving his book away as a last ditch effort to rescue flagging sales. At least once a week, at All About Romance, readers post questions(…)
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