02-17-2024, 11:17 PM
https://theconversation.com/harry-potter...ook-223664
The upcoming publication of Alchemised, a fantasy romance book that began its life as the Harry Potter fan fiction story Manacled by Sen Lin Yu, is part of a relatively small, but curious trend of fan fiction (amateur fiction writing by fans) being rewritten and published as original work.
Perhaps the most famous is Fifty Shades of Grey, which began as Twilight fan fiction called Masters of the Universe in 2009, but there’s evidence it may date back to 2007.
The great success of Fifty Shades has turned publishers’ attention to the wealth of stories found in online fan fiction archives. These stories sometimes have huge loyal readerships. Manacled, for example, is a whopping 74 chapters long with three epilogues. It has a huge ongoing readership since it was published between 2018 and 2019, a readership publishers are hoping to tap into with Alchemised.
However, not all of those readers are ready to celebrate their favourite story going pro.
Okay... so what they're doing here is, they're taking a fanfic about a romance between Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy; removing all the elements that are directly connected to the Harry Potter series (e.g. changing the names of the characters); and publishing it as an original work.
This does fall into a legal grey area... others (such as E.L. James with Fifty Shades of Grey) have got away with it in the past, but it often means the original fanfic has to be deleted. Which does suck for fans of that fanfic... has anyone here read Manacled, and if you have, how do you feel about it potentially getting deleted and turned into this book?
The upcoming publication of Alchemised, a fantasy romance book that began its life as the Harry Potter fan fiction story Manacled by Sen Lin Yu, is part of a relatively small, but curious trend of fan fiction (amateur fiction writing by fans) being rewritten and published as original work.
Perhaps the most famous is Fifty Shades of Grey, which began as Twilight fan fiction called Masters of the Universe in 2009, but there’s evidence it may date back to 2007.
The great success of Fifty Shades has turned publishers’ attention to the wealth of stories found in online fan fiction archives. These stories sometimes have huge loyal readerships. Manacled, for example, is a whopping 74 chapters long with three epilogues. It has a huge ongoing readership since it was published between 2018 and 2019, a readership publishers are hoping to tap into with Alchemised.
However, not all of those readers are ready to celebrate their favourite story going pro.
Okay... so what they're doing here is, they're taking a fanfic about a romance between Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy; removing all the elements that are directly connected to the Harry Potter series (e.g. changing the names of the characters); and publishing it as an original work.
This does fall into a legal grey area... others (such as E.L. James with Fifty Shades of Grey) have got away with it in the past, but it often means the original fanfic has to be deleted. Which does suck for fans of that fanfic... has anyone here read Manacled, and if you have, how do you feel about it potentially getting deleted and turned into this book?
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