The story of 50 SHADES OF GREY also involves an author who was able to find her audience, in part by starting her work at
a fan fiction site with 2 million users.
1 out of every 20 books sold last year was from E.L. James, who originally published on
a fan fiction site.
We had our first repeat guest on the show today, urban fantasy author Carolynn Gockel (writing as C. Gockel) from Episode 19, where we chatted about permafree books, getting started on
fan fiction sites, using Tumblr to promote, and where to buy sponsorships.
Pirates can lift books right off
fan fiction sites or Amazon, so why would they want somebody's first draft?
Self - publishers are winning followers by
fan fiction sites and blogs: Some time ago, people thought that the books being produced were so many for there to be enough people to read them.
A while back I spent an evening going through one of the big
fan fiction sites and many of the stories I picked at random were so bad that I could feel my brain melting as I tried to read them.
Another example of such mavens is the reader who hangs out on
fan fiction sites.
This has also happened at least once or twice to
fan fiction sites, although with less success at stamping out the practice which is not as purely derivative.
Not exact matches
About
Site - The Setup Wizard is a work of
Fan Fiction based on characters, locations, and events created by and creditied to J.K. Rowling.
For those of you who don't know, Valent Chamber is a pretty cool
site that features
fan fiction and original
fiction with black women as the main characters and more often than not in interracial relationships.
Visit to get the One Stop
site for TV Serials, Dramas, Reality Shows, Celebrities, Bollywood Movies and
Fan Fictions.
However, if you are writing
fan fiction of some sort, you can't sell it at a
site like this.
Amazon launched its Kindle Worlds
fan fiction platform just over a year ago, and the concept has been a great success for both the rights holders who license content to the
site and the
fans who adore the concepts and story lines of their favorite authors.
Beth Reeks, the nineteen - year - old student of physics, has been picked up by Random House after her romantic
fiction, The Kissing Booth, which she had published at the storytelling
site Wattpad, created a
fan following of over 19 million.
R. Casteel, as a
fan of science
fiction, I was wondering if you would be so kind as to post a positive comment for my friend, fellow author and member of this
site, E.G. Manetti.
Just look for «
fan fiction»
sites (Halo [bungie.org] is «wonderful»), or just about any
site [deviantart.com] which allows teenage girls to publish a «book.»
Last month, Amazon unveiled its plans to turn
fan fiction into a real business, signing on Alloy Entertainment (a division of Warner Bros.) to allow independent writers to sell
fiction based on shows like Gossip Girl and The Vampire Diairies on Amazon's
site.
When Amazon Publishing announced the creation of its
fan fiction publishing
site Kindle Worlds, one of its first and most vocal supporters was bestselling author Hugh Howey.
Pull - to - publish (P2P) is when a
fan fiction (fanfic) author pulls their work off a fanfic
site (like fanfiction.net) and publishes the story for profit.
The readers for literary
fiction aren't hanging around on book blogs and
fan sites and whatever.
While some of the most popular genres currently found on Wattpad's platform are romance, paranormal, and
fan fiction, the
site does host content in other areas as well.
At Crime
Fiction Lover, a «
site for die hard crime and thriller
fans» Shevez talks in an interview about how he came to write a book set in his home city.
Animorphs
fan sites and works of
fan fiction number in the thousands even today.
In other related news,
fan fiction continued to thrive on the
site, with 7.5 million new works of
fan fiction started in 2013.
«This list includes not only well - known fanfic
sites like FanFiction or Archive of Our Own, but also shows ways to find
fan fiction on social networks like Tumblr, or book discovery
sites like Goodreads.»
By incorporating content from the comprehensive Encyclopaedia of Science
Fiction — which the publisher has made available in its entirety online for free — along with a forum, and a blog, Gollancz has turned an online catalogue into a go - to site for science fictio
Fiction — which the publisher has made available in its entirety online for free — along with a forum, and a blog, Gollancz has turned an online catalogue into a go - to
site for science
fictionfiction fans.
In a manner similar to the
site's pre-existing self - publishing e-book platform, Kindle Worlds will allow writers of
fan fiction the chance to profit from something they'd probably be doing for free anyway, with or without an audience, albeit at a much lower rate than if they, say, changed the characters and settings from Twilight just enough to be legally discernible and then maybe added anal beads or something.
At the time, serials were most often found on the edges of the traditional book publishing industry, at
fan -
fiction sites and other niche communities.
Adding a forum for your readers to connect and discuss your work or putting up a section where users can submit
fan -
fiction based on your novels are some aspects you may want to add to your mature
site.
One example is Kindle Worlds, which is a paid
fan -
fiction site that Amazon set up a while back.
One
fan -
fiction site, then a self - published e-book with print - on - demand services, a raving review on a blog or two, and boom.
Several of these
sites host FanFic, or,
fiction based on the original characters, but written by
fans.
I invited Barney
fans to contribute to the
site and received some pretty amazing stuff: erotic
fan fiction, a
fan - made video game based on the cremaster cycle, and some very bizarre videos
The
site uses «source documents» such as disparate as a 1987 Disneyland ride, obscure
fan fiction, and even the definitive and thorough Star Wars encyclopedia.