Media References to Fanfic, the week ending 2/21/15
The Washington Post’s Alyssa Rosenberg wrote that publishers who are signing deals with fan fiction authors (as James was) or authors who scored hits with books they self-published don’t necessarily want to mess with viral success.
In a review for Indiana Daily Student, Lexia Banks wrote If you’ve been stranded in a desert for the last three years and haven’t heard, “Fifty Shades of Grey” is a sex-driven romance novel written by E.L. James. It began as a work of fan fiction based off of “Twilight,” so you can imagine the height of my expectations.
For The Crimson White (The University of Alabama), Erynn Williams wrote It is fan fiction, and it is entertainment. Let’s treat it as such, please.
For The Daily Tarheel (UNC), Drew Goins and Kelsey Weekman reasoned that If Hollywood can convince us all that a book of Twilight fan fiction is the pinnacle of modern romance, you can convince your professor that you read 35 pages about agrarian life in the early 1800s.
In a review of Santa Fe Reporter, David Riedel wrote the source material-Twilight fan fiction-and its boneheaded contention that to practice BDSM you must be emotionally damaged is absurd.
In Iowa State Daily, Sarah Muller quoted a fellow student: “['50 Shades of Grey'] is pornography to me,” Jarid said. “That’s up there with fan fiction people make, all of those romantic novels women read even before '50 Shades of Grey.'”
In “50 Shades of lame" for Sandusky Register, Michelle Phletcher asked What makes this story, that originally started out as "Twilight" fan fiction (yes, the sparkly vampire book) so interesting? Why is it everyone has an opinion on it?
And, in a piece on a lawsuit about Fifty Shades royalties for Star-Telegram, Max B. Baker wrote that Pedroza and Hayward, who lived in Dural, a Sydney suburb, were partners in The Writer’s Coffee Shop, which started out as a blog site in 2009, along with Waxahachie resident Jennifer McGuire. Visitors to the fan-based website discussed books and wrote “fan fiction” stories.
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In a Waterloo Region Record review, Jean Mills wrote Told in two voices - Amelia's laid-bare "diary" and Declan's internal, masculine monologue (yes, much swearing) - "Promises and Other Broken Things" moves at a fast pace with lots of dialogue and a focus on plot. Although at times it reads a bit like fan fiction with its references to pop culture (Amelia has an "Amy Pond" moment in homage to a character in the TV show "Dr. Who," for instance) Eades tells a story of two people struggling to find a balance between right and wrong, and not always getting it right.
From Mary Sheehan in The Pendulum (Elon University): “Because One Direction is so large, it feels almost safe to ship them. I feel comfortable reading and writing fan fiction in which they’re together, because I know they’ll never see it,” said Lee Buono, an Elon University junior who identifies as non-binary.
From a Nathaniel Rich review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant for The Atlantic: Can it be that The Buried Giant is an exalted exercise in [Arthurian] fan fiction?
Orlando Jones told Fox411’s Ashley Dvorkin that Sleepy Hollow fans often have incredible ideas and there’s fan art and there are other stories being written about these characters with fan fiction so it’s an exciting universe.
On the website for KTLA, Nancy Cruz posted that Anna Todd is the author of the AFTER series. AFTER started as One Direction fan fiction on Wattpad and quickly became a bestseller. Huh?
Finally, in "Meet the company making math addictive" for Crosscut, Jason Preston quoted Zoran Popovic, the Director of the University of Washington Center for Game Science: “My daughter solved all the Harry Potter problems. [… I]t’s kind of like funny and weird fan fiction. She kind of laughed at some of them, but the point is that learning can be just as fun as anything else.”
In a review for Indiana Daily Student, Lexia Banks wrote If you’ve been stranded in a desert for the last three years and haven’t heard, “Fifty Shades of Grey” is a sex-driven romance novel written by E.L. James. It began as a work of fan fiction based off of “Twilight,” so you can imagine the height of my expectations.
For The Crimson White (The University of Alabama), Erynn Williams wrote It is fan fiction, and it is entertainment. Let’s treat it as such, please.
For The Daily Tarheel (UNC), Drew Goins and Kelsey Weekman reasoned that If Hollywood can convince us all that a book of Twilight fan fiction is the pinnacle of modern romance, you can convince your professor that you read 35 pages about agrarian life in the early 1800s.
In a review of Santa Fe Reporter, David Riedel wrote the source material-Twilight fan fiction-and its boneheaded contention that to practice BDSM you must be emotionally damaged is absurd.
In Iowa State Daily, Sarah Muller quoted a fellow student: “['50 Shades of Grey'] is pornography to me,” Jarid said. “That’s up there with fan fiction people make, all of those romantic novels women read even before '50 Shades of Grey.'”
In “50 Shades of lame" for Sandusky Register, Michelle Phletcher asked What makes this story, that originally started out as "Twilight" fan fiction (yes, the sparkly vampire book) so interesting? Why is it everyone has an opinion on it?
And, in a piece on a lawsuit about Fifty Shades royalties for Star-Telegram, Max B. Baker wrote that Pedroza and Hayward, who lived in Dural, a Sydney suburb, were partners in The Writer’s Coffee Shop, which started out as a blog site in 2009, along with Waxahachie resident Jennifer McGuire. Visitors to the fan-based website discussed books and wrote “fan fiction” stories.
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In a Waterloo Region Record review, Jean Mills wrote Told in two voices - Amelia's laid-bare "diary" and Declan's internal, masculine monologue (yes, much swearing) - "Promises and Other Broken Things" moves at a fast pace with lots of dialogue and a focus on plot. Although at times it reads a bit like fan fiction with its references to pop culture (Amelia has an "Amy Pond" moment in homage to a character in the TV show "Dr. Who," for instance) Eades tells a story of two people struggling to find a balance between right and wrong, and not always getting it right.
From Mary Sheehan in The Pendulum (Elon University): “Because One Direction is so large, it feels almost safe to ship them. I feel comfortable reading and writing fan fiction in which they’re together, because I know they’ll never see it,” said Lee Buono, an Elon University junior who identifies as non-binary.
From a Nathaniel Rich review of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant for The Atlantic: Can it be that The Buried Giant is an exalted exercise in [Arthurian] fan fiction?
Orlando Jones told Fox411’s Ashley Dvorkin that Sleepy Hollow fans often have incredible ideas and there’s fan art and there are other stories being written about these characters with fan fiction so it’s an exciting universe.
On the website for KTLA, Nancy Cruz posted that Anna Todd is the author of the AFTER series. AFTER started as One Direction fan fiction on Wattpad and quickly became a bestseller. Huh?
Finally, in "Meet the company making math addictive" for Crosscut, Jason Preston quoted Zoran Popovic, the Director of the University of Washington Center for Game Science: “My daughter solved all the Harry Potter problems. [… I]t’s kind of like funny and weird fan fiction. She kind of laughed at some of them, but the point is that learning can be just as fun as anything else.”