Media References to Fanfic, the week ending 12/1/12
The Salt Lake Tribune’s Ben Fulton reported on the evolution Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings’s Beautiful Bastard, and explained why Utah Prof. Anne Jamison has seemed such an advocate: after tracking down a print-out of the book, she contacted Hobbs to meet for coffee. She’s since maintained a working relationship with the author, helping her and Billings run Beautiful Bastard through plagiarism software to ensure the book wouldn’t be a mere retread of [earlier Twilight fic] The Office.
In the Department of Irony Department, L. A. Biz’s Gina Hall reported on Universal Studios’ efforts to block porn parodies of Fifty Shades. Oddly enough, the book, itself sprang from fan fiction that branched off from the "Twilight" series, meaning that "Fifty Shades" was actually derivative of another popular property. But memories are short in Hollywood. According to International Business Times, Many sources have questioned how valid the suit is, as “Fifty Shades of Grey” was itself adapted from the popular “Twilight” trilogy, and it was first written as a fan fiction, using characters and depictions from the already published series. And InsideCounsel’s Julie Beck wrote It was only a matter of time before someone in the pornography industry tried to capitalize off of “Fifty Shades of Grey,” the best-selling “Twilight” fanfiction-turned kinky e-book that probably everyone you see on the subway with an e-reader is secretly reading. Universal Studios bought the film rights to the books, which have sold more than 40 million copies combined, earlier this year, and while we wonder how they plan to make an adaptation that isn’t porn, they are certainly not going to stand for anyone else doing so.
A piece in The Gaurdian on the women who dominated publishing in 2012 began with Justine Jordan writing of E.L. James Four years ago a dissatisfied TV executive was inspired by Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels to start writing steamy online fan fiction about the leading characters in which sparkly-skinned vampire Edward and bold virgin Bella were made over as an entrepreneur and a college graduate. If the narrative of the first Twilight books was powered by heavy-breathing abstinence and the revelation that good vampires wait until marriage, online forums were where readers could let rip.
In “50 shades of conflict” for Vancouver Sun, Denise Ryan wrote the book, which had its genesis as Twilight fan fiction, is a literary joke, (there's far better erotica out there), it has struck a chord. Well, duh.
In a piece for Huffington Post UK, James Christie wrote about his relationship with fictional vampires and their actors: For fun, I wrote a fan-fiction short story about Dru, and for no reason I knew at the time, found that strange connection some writers have with a character.
And Publishers Weekly named E. L. James its Publishing Person of the Year, with Rachel Deahl writing This year, we were treated to a whopper: it was about a wannabe novelist who took her small romance tale from an experimental work on a fan fiction Web site… and then you gotta pay.
In a piece about Girls for The Age, Helen Razer wrote The fusion of adult literacy with an almost childlike single-mindedness can produce great results. From product reviews to the elaborate world of fan-fiction to the obsessions of microblogging platform Tumblr, niche commentary is alive, well and occasionally instructive.
In the Mackay Daily Mercury there was a mention of the Australian Literature Review's fan fiction competition, which gives writers the opportunity to write their own chapter in the Chester Lewis story, a collaborative novel.
From the Tasmania Examiner: THEIR "bromance" made news and sparked a deluge of internet fanfiction during the latest season of MasterChef - and now Andy Allen and Ben Milbourne have teamed up for a new book.
Hindustan Times’s Poonam Saxena wrote A television show's fandom - the real thing - is usually global and not restricted to the country where the TV show in question originated. It finds its voice on the Internet - through passionately maintained blogs, imaginative fan fiction, on dedicated fansites etc. It can be obsessive.
In a piece about the attraction of boy bands, most notably One Direction, for New York Times, Maura Johnston wrote The varying personalities of boy bands’ members could be seen as a testing ground for attraction, and the resulting fantasies projected on the idols can be chaste or X-rated. You don’t have to search for long to find virtual reams of fan fiction devoted to teen idols getting into Cinemax-appropriate high jinks.
For Washington Post’s The Style Blog, Caitlin Dewey wrote, of Suzanne Collins’s new picture book, “Year of the Jungle” boasts markedly less star potential and, sadly, fewer opportunities for fan fiction, forum meltdowns and tributary cakes.
Finally, for WhatCulture.com, Colin Dray wrote a love letter to Mass Effect fanfic: Fan fictions have long been a way for those most enamoured with a text to try to engage directly with the work, to project their own identity into the material through the most overt possible act of homage - carving out their own imaginative space within a universe they admire. But there are many other reasons for undertaking this form of intellectual reappropriation - not all of them merely an attempt to exist within a beloved imaginative landscape - and there are many surprising works of fiction that can emerge from the pursuit.
And, from Lone Star Ball (a Texas Rangers community), with relevant pic: Today's slash-fic topic: Jean Luc Picard, Don Draper, a ballgame and a bottle of wine... go! - Alex Trautwig.
In the Department of Irony Department, L. A. Biz’s Gina Hall reported on Universal Studios’ efforts to block porn parodies of Fifty Shades. Oddly enough, the book, itself sprang from fan fiction that branched off from the "Twilight" series, meaning that "Fifty Shades" was actually derivative of another popular property. But memories are short in Hollywood. According to International Business Times, Many sources have questioned how valid the suit is, as “Fifty Shades of Grey” was itself adapted from the popular “Twilight” trilogy, and it was first written as a fan fiction, using characters and depictions from the already published series. And InsideCounsel’s Julie Beck wrote It was only a matter of time before someone in the pornography industry tried to capitalize off of “Fifty Shades of Grey,” the best-selling “Twilight” fanfiction-turned kinky e-book that probably everyone you see on the subway with an e-reader is secretly reading. Universal Studios bought the film rights to the books, which have sold more than 40 million copies combined, earlier this year, and while we wonder how they plan to make an adaptation that isn’t porn, they are certainly not going to stand for anyone else doing so.
A piece in The Gaurdian on the women who dominated publishing in 2012 began with Justine Jordan writing of E.L. James Four years ago a dissatisfied TV executive was inspired by Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels to start writing steamy online fan fiction about the leading characters in which sparkly-skinned vampire Edward and bold virgin Bella were made over as an entrepreneur and a college graduate. If the narrative of the first Twilight books was powered by heavy-breathing abstinence and the revelation that good vampires wait until marriage, online forums were where readers could let rip.
In “50 shades of conflict” for Vancouver Sun, Denise Ryan wrote the book, which had its genesis as Twilight fan fiction, is a literary joke, (there's far better erotica out there), it has struck a chord. Well, duh.
In a piece for Huffington Post UK, James Christie wrote about his relationship with fictional vampires and their actors: For fun, I wrote a fan-fiction short story about Dru, and for no reason I knew at the time, found that strange connection some writers have with a character.
And Publishers Weekly named E. L. James its Publishing Person of the Year, with Rachel Deahl writing This year, we were treated to a whopper: it was about a wannabe novelist who took her small romance tale from an experimental work on a fan fiction Web site… and then you gotta pay.
In a piece about Girls for The Age, Helen Razer wrote The fusion of adult literacy with an almost childlike single-mindedness can produce great results. From product reviews to the elaborate world of fan-fiction to the obsessions of microblogging platform Tumblr, niche commentary is alive, well and occasionally instructive.
In the Mackay Daily Mercury there was a mention of the Australian Literature Review's fan fiction competition, which gives writers the opportunity to write their own chapter in the Chester Lewis story, a collaborative novel.
From the Tasmania Examiner: THEIR "bromance" made news and sparked a deluge of internet fanfiction during the latest season of MasterChef - and now Andy Allen and Ben Milbourne have teamed up for a new book.
Hindustan Times’s Poonam Saxena wrote A television show's fandom - the real thing - is usually global and not restricted to the country where the TV show in question originated. It finds its voice on the Internet - through passionately maintained blogs, imaginative fan fiction, on dedicated fansites etc. It can be obsessive.
In a piece about the attraction of boy bands, most notably One Direction, for New York Times, Maura Johnston wrote The varying personalities of boy bands’ members could be seen as a testing ground for attraction, and the resulting fantasies projected on the idols can be chaste or X-rated. You don’t have to search for long to find virtual reams of fan fiction devoted to teen idols getting into Cinemax-appropriate high jinks.
For Washington Post’s The Style Blog, Caitlin Dewey wrote, of Suzanne Collins’s new picture book, “Year of the Jungle” boasts markedly less star potential and, sadly, fewer opportunities for fan fiction, forum meltdowns and tributary cakes.
Finally, for WhatCulture.com, Colin Dray wrote a love letter to Mass Effect fanfic: Fan fictions have long been a way for those most enamoured with a text to try to engage directly with the work, to project their own identity into the material through the most overt possible act of homage - carving out their own imaginative space within a universe they admire. But there are many other reasons for undertaking this form of intellectual reappropriation - not all of them merely an attempt to exist within a beloved imaginative landscape - and there are many surprising works of fiction that can emerge from the pursuit.
And, from Lone Star Ball (a Texas Rangers community), with relevant pic: Today's slash-fic topic: Jean Luc Picard, Don Draper, a ballgame and a bottle of wine... go! - Alex Trautwig.