Fanfic authors are pulling their works and here's why

[afeelingunacted]

And it's live! For @WIRED, I wrote about the illegal fanbindings have led to some writers to delete their works recently-and how that connects to the current pull-to-publish wave and the ever-broadening, increasingly contextless sphere of fic readers: https://t.co/qEFk1jspFo
- Elizabeth Minkel (@elizabethminkel) February 28, 2024

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Comments

[theoryofwar]

There are so many times when I'm reading a book and I feel like it had to have been fan fiction before it was published. Then I try to guess which fandom it was. I feel like Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall was fanfic before it got published!

eta: I bought a mostly alright translated ebook, but there are parts that need editing so badly and it's driving me bonkers. Is there a way I can make it into a PDF or something so I can edit it and keep it for myself? I won't publish it, I just need to stop Warren from randomly showing up with the characters name is Rain. I have notes on my kindle whenever fucking Warren shows up and a note that they mean Rain lol. This is when I want a physical copy so I can pull out a red pen!

[squirrels_oh_no]

I'm reading A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon and it felt like BAD fanfic and surprise the author is popular in the Reylo community!

[winter_lace]

Okay , seriously why the fuck is it always reylos getting published???

[eaemilia]

A lot of them seemed to be repped by one agent who just seems to stalk AO3 looking for her new clients lol. And after that...I think other agents and editors saw how successful Ali Hazelwood was because she had a built in audience, and they decided to go after other reylo authors.

It was the same after 50 Shades was a hit. A BUNCH of other Twilight fics were pulled and published, but eventually the trend died down, and I imagine that will happen this time too.

[violet_crumble9]

Shamelessness

[pseudonygma]

If it's on ao3 they have several different formats for you to choose from. If you get it as an epub, you can open it with your internet browser, select all, copy & paste onto the word editor of your choice. I know in MS Word, you can ctrl+f and make it replace any "Warren" with "Rain" and it'll automatically scan the entire document and do it for you.

[theoryofwar]

It's not fanfic, it's from Amazon and on my Kindle. I'm going to see if I can figure out Calibre, which I think I'll be able edit with. If not, I'll just type it all out, I'm that desperate to edit it

edit: guess I'm typing it out since it won't open 😭 good thing I did Mavis Beacon for fun as a kid