Fan Fiction
Not long ago, an author on fangs_fur_fey posted asking how people felt about fan fiction. blackholly posted about the contest she'd just sponsored on her live journal with a prompt that asked her readers to create a little bit of fan fiction.
Barry Lyga, author of The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl is also encouraging fan fic with a contest. Fanboy states in the novel that there are three things he wants more than anything, but only names two of them. He asks his readers to name the third. Even better, the prize (an ipod) depends on how many entries he receives--so if he only gets fifty entries, it will be a slim end ipod, but if he gets hundreds... there will be an upgrade.
I've been meaning to check out the novel and may just mosey over to the YA section of the library and pick it up. I'd like to see if leaving out the third thing feels, in the novel, like a tremendous oversight, or if it was a planned thing on Lyga's part. (If so, that's pretty nifty marketing right there.)
Barry Lyga, author of The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl is also encouraging fan fic with a contest. Fanboy states in the novel that there are three things he wants more than anything, but only names two of them. He asks his readers to name the third. Even better, the prize (an ipod) depends on how many entries he receives--so if he only gets fifty entries, it will be a slim end ipod, but if he gets hundreds... there will be an upgrade.
I've been meaning to check out the novel and may just mosey over to the YA section of the library and pick it up. I'd like to see if leaving out the third thing feels, in the novel, like a tremendous oversight, or if it was a planned thing on Lyga's part. (If so, that's pretty nifty marketing right there.)