Anne Rice's Position on Reviews

[raingriffin]

Seldom do I really answer those who criticize my work. In fact, the entire development of my career has been fueled by my ability to ignore denigrating and trivializing criticism as I realize my dreams and my goals. However there is something compelling about Amazon's willingness to publish just about anything, and the sheer outrageous stupidity of

Comments

[jigglypuff]

I don't really like Anne Rice; she's always struck me as an egotistical bitch, especially with her anti-fanfiction status. Yes, she's within her rights to say no; but she should be encouraging her fandom, not telling them "No, bitches, you can't write about my characters". They're all lame, anyway. D:

[arcee8]

Yeah, I was dumbfounded when I found out that she didn't allow fanfiction. What a load of crap.

I mean, writing fanfiction was the basis of my own writing. If I didn't feel compelled by someone else's amazing story, I don't think I would have been inspired to create my own stories.

If someone wanted to use my characters in a story, I would be amazingly flattered.

[raingriffin]

Well, there are admittedly legal issues. However, writers like J.K. Rowling take a "you can write it, I just won't read it" attitude to keep them from getting sued. She's very flattered about people using her characters.

[arcee8]

Well, of course. If people started making money with my characters or started distributing stories with my characters and parading them around as their own, I would obviously have some issues with that, legal and otherwise.

[raingriffin]

Exactly. However, fanfiction writers pretty much always include disclaimers in their work, and so far I have never heard of someone claiming the characters as their own.

[arcee8]

When I was 14 or 15, I use to read stories on fanfiction.net all the time. That was when you could post your own original work before they created fictionpress.com; some girl had written a story with the EXACT same storyline as the movie Ever After.

I brought it to her attention and she denied it because she changed the names.

People can be so dense.

[raingriffin]

*headbang* Damn it.

[jigglypuff]

Although she does actually read it. XD

[raingriffin]

Pretty much, yes. The porn scares her. Sometimes, it scares me as well.