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[anniehow]

Did you know that there are not one, but TWO published books, available through Amazon, that are re-retellings of Pride & Prejudice where Mr Darcy is a vampire (sorry, in one he's actually a VAMPYRE!) and (I stopped counting at FOUR) sequels involving various previously unseen dashing Darcy relatives, including one where his charming american

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[love_jackianto]

'Now, someone please explain how fanfiction on the internet is still something to be done anonimously on the internet, that you should be ashamed of outside of fandom, and in a legal gray area. Damn it. We don't even make money out of it, fercristsake!'
I think that we don't make money off of it IS the reason. To most people who don't write fanfic it's just a strange hobby. There is also the nasty connotation that because most of it is written by women it has to be inferior (i.e. badly written)- which is false reasoning on so many levels. I've read fanfic that is so much better than some of the tripe that gets published and one of my favorite fanfic authors is a man.

[anniehow]

I didn't know about the written by women = inferior, but it would explain a few things.

[love_jackianto]

Yeah it would. And I can't count the remember of times I've heard someone complain about how someone told them to stop writing fanfic and go make money off their writing. If all it took to make money off writing was writing itself I publish a book of drabbles and wait for the checks to start rolling in.

[dotfic]

What gets me are people who sniff and dismiss fanfic as crap -- and then will turn around and read all the pastiches that get professionally published, or think that media tie-in novels are of inherently superior quality -- or inherently inferior quality.

Good writing = good writing.

[anniehow]

In Japan many professional manga authors get selected from the ranks of the amateur... who often get visibility by doing fanworks at dedicated festivals. Public perception isn't very favorable (but then, neither it is to "proper" mangaka) but it's LEGAL. The publishers know that it ultimately benefits them to have active fans.

[anniehow]

It's the shaming that gets me :(

[caffienekitty]

I think they get away with the Austen ones because the Copyright has run out on those. I think. Don't quote me.

[anniehow]

But it's the attitude that gets me. *grr*