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  1. verushka70 Tue 11 Nov 2014 03:36AM UTC

    Ray Kowalski puts his hands on his head like he has a headache

    So I gathered from Googling. Being neither into Twilight (barely finished the first book, never read the sequels) nor Fifty Shades (stopped after the first few pages), I had not read any of those blogs. Hence the question and the Googling.

    Now that I know the backstory, I have even less interest (if that's even possible) in all things Fifty Shades. How very odious. Unfortunately, though the author may be the first fanfic author to engage in this kind of exploitation of fandom, I have a feeling she will not be the last.

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    1. scribblemyname Tue 11 Nov 2014 03:29PM UTC

      She's not the first either who filed off serial numbers and sold it. When City of Bones first came out, there was a lengthy LiveJournal post explaining its original distribution as a subscription-only OOC Harry Potter fic and the author's long history of charging for fanfic and CafePress fan items. By the time the second book came out, the LJ post disappeared and all you ever hear about any more are the other issues Cassandra Clare had with fandom, but I never forgot that first foray into researching her because the book cover and title intrigued me; I'd just written a drabble I called "City of Glass," and wondered whether it was a good title to use on a longer work.

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