FanLib: All The News That's Printed To Fit

[stewardess]

I've been tracking press on FanLib since May, 2007. Most of it is mind-numbing market speak at BusinessWire, a website you pay to host your press release in hopes someone will discover it. I ignore these, because how many times do we need to hear about The L-Word fanisode

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[jedinic]

"With our 'L-Word' event one of our winners went on to get an agent," Williams said. "One of our other winners got a book deal with another major publisher.

Any idea who these people are? (I suspect they were operating independently of Fanlib when the deals came through.)

[stewardess]

The L-word fanisode web site may have more info:

lword.fanlib.com

Getting an agent means nothing. It could be the fanfiction writer's mom.

That article makes it sound as if FanLib is the only way for a fanfiction author to make their work available online. Frakking nuts!

[stewardess]

P.S. Can you imagine having FanLib on your writing resume? Gah!

[angelofsnow]

I was having a bad day. And then I found this lovely post chock full of Fanlib wank and it cheered me right up. Mimbo and Fanlib continue to be an endless source of wildly stupid and thoughtless misunderstanding of business, the internet, and the nature of fan fiction. This is the most entertaining thing I've read all day.

Does Mimbo seriously believe that Fanlib has a "sweet spot"?

[stewardess]

Does mimbo seriously believe that Fanlib has a "sweet spot"?

I think his sweet spot is green. :D

[elements]

They're advertising that BSG contest on Facebook - my jaw dropped today when I saw the ad on my homepage. It was weirdly tiny and low production-values for FB ads, too.

[stewardess]

But was it worse than the pinata ad? :D

http://community.livejournal.com/life_wo_fanlib/23617.html

[elements]

They would have to try very, very hard to be worse than the pinata ad :D.

[unlikely2]

Thank you for an interesting and informative post.

[stewardess]

You are very welcome!

[angiepen]

"It's that happy medium between traditional 'professionally-generated' content and the totally user-generated content," which can veer from the racy and sophomoric to the transgressive and controversial.

So in other words, Chris is looking to make money off of content which lacks both the polished skill of professional writing and the raw sex-n-romance of fanfiction. :D I wish him luck. [snicker]

Angie

[stewardess]

Hee! Yep, that about sums up his business "plan."