Twilight fans, I’m sorry, but it’s becoming clearer and clearer that there is a deep vein of crazy running through your fandom. Hot on the heels of LadySybilla and her unending spiral of batshit, you now have a second person trying to sell their Twilight fan fiction – and this one is on Amazon.
Seriously guys, when your creator has a history of pitching fits in the style of a 16-year-old BNF who’s not getting enough reviews? It’s probably not wise to gleefully infringe on her copyright. One can be written off as just a random nutter, but two? That’s stupid crazy. Meyer has money, she has lawyers, and I don’t doubt that they will cut you – and maybe everyone else who’s doing their Twilight fan fiction without asking money for it as well.
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6 responses so far ↓
1 Scoke // Jun 8, 2009 at 1:10 pm
I guess people are just getting confused, thinking they can write and publish fanfiction, because after all, Twilight was.
2 Dunc // Jun 8, 2009 at 3:09 pm
They’re not fanfic, though I’ve heard it often said that her writing is like fanfic… But that’s probably just another way of calling them amateur.
Gotta say I really feel for Meyer, though: These two make Lori Jareo look like Mother Teresa.
3 Scoke // Jun 8, 2009 at 3:40 pm
“…though I’ve heard it often said that her writing is like fanfic…”
That’s sorta what I was getting at with my comment. ;)
4 Doyle // Jun 8, 2009 at 4:31 pm
I’ve got to say that I’m pretty well surprised that this has happened again. There’s always the natural impulse to publish your work, especially if you’ve already received praise in a fandom so close-knit that it borders on masturbatory, but to actually attempt to capitalize on your fandom seems especially perverse.
That said, I do sympathize with Meyer for having to deal with this, even if she has a tendency to react like a big old baby. As a hack writer myself, one of the lesser perks of my chosen route in life is that I may someday have to deal with crap like this. The thought cools my blood by a few metaphorical degrees.
5 orangerful // Jun 8, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Do you think this naivete is because Twilight is because it’s a romance fandom? I feel like these fans are a new level of crazy from sci-fi fans. I mean, we’re nuts, but these people (I’m looking at your Twi-Moms) are just SCARY.
6 Dunc // Jun 8, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Orangerful: I think it’s just a matter of it being the new big popular thing, with a lot of people coming in ignorant of fannish culture. You saw similar things with Potter, though not on this level. (I’m fairly certain print-on-demand is way easier now than in 2001, for instance.)
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