It's an interesting idea — allowing both the original authors and fan
fic authors to profit — but, has unfortunately been met with a lukewarm reaction.
Most fan
fic authors would jump at the chance to legally write for their beloved franchise, but with a possibility of getting paid and perhaps even recognition from the creator?
To some extent, self - published literary novels do get marginalized, if for no other reason than that (not all of course, but) many lit
fic authors come from traditional publishing and / or academic backgrounds.
More people are open to reading self - published literary fiction — and more wonderful lit
fic authors are self - publishing, which is fantastic for everyone.
Twilight Vampires from fiction or characters and story lines from a popular TV series, for example), the fan -
fic author has no rights to their work.
Not exact matches
It will be interesting to see if this book is going to dominate the bestseller list for the next few months or if it will spawn any fan -
fic that will put an unknown
author's name on the map.
This allows the original
author and the fan -
fic one to share royalties, sadly Kindle Worlds never took off and is is relegated to the type of obscurity that Kindle Scout enjoys.
If you ask ten
authors how they feel about fan fiction — for those of you unaware, it's the writing and publishing (not necessarily with monetization) of content that stars existing characters or celebrities, but comes from its
author's own creative process — you might find them evenly split on whether or not fan
fic is a compliment to their writing, or basically not worth using to wrap up your used chewing gum.
Then, of course, we had the usual submissions challenges — writers not reading guidelines or submitting work that was well - written but didn't conform to the flavor of weird spec -
fic that we were looking for (for some reason, many
authors wanted to write about Noah despite clear guidelines to avoid it).
The Indelibles are primarily YA
authors, but they also are branching out into adult and MG
fic.
Amazon has just figured out how to make fan fiction legal, and get the original creators paid for it, the
authors of the fan
fics paid for it, and themselves paid for it.
Marketing and launch for a non
fic title would, I imagine, be completely different and depend upon
author platform.
The
authors surveyed 70 folks whose cats had been diagnosed with
FIC and as a control, surveyed 95 cat owners whose cats were patients at the same veterinary hospital, but had never shown signs of urinary tract problems.