Comments | iphignia939: best. day. ever.

iphignia939

best. day. ever.

Jan 15, 2014 21:46

Hey, do you remember when LJ Smith got fired from writing The Vampire Diaries novels? Like, by her publishing company? (The last two trilogies have been ghostwritten by I *think* Aubrey Clark, who also ghostwrote the new Secret Circle novels, which are awful ( Read more... )

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littlerhymes January 15 2014, 22:20:41 UTC

What?! Ok, that's amazing. Everything has come full circle. THE SNAKE EATS ITS OWN TAIL.

iphignia939 January 17 2014, 03:48:25 UTC

Oh my God, if you go to her website and read the blurbs, it gets EVEN BETTER.

gryphonella January 15 2014, 22:55:31 UTC

SHUT. UP. Absolutely best day ever!!!!

iphignia939 January 17 2014, 03:48:35 UTC

Oh my God, if you go to her website and read the blurbs, it gets EVEN BETTER.

the_jackalope January 16 2014, 14:13:54 UTC

But if it's written by the original creator does that make it fanfiction that becomes cannon?

iphignia939 January 17 2014, 03:50:49 UTC

It does not! Because - sadly, I learned all this when she got kicked off the books - Alloy Entertainment has the rights; she basically did work-for-hire stuff under her own name, and that property was developed into a TV show. She doesn't have the rights to either TVD or TSC. Any of her other works, however, she *does*.

the_jackalope January 22 2014, 14:21:46 UTC

Oh that I knew. It's just if the creator is writing fanficiton of her work, because of reasons that make no actual sense, doesn't that still make her work cannon. She's the creator of the work, the world and characters came from her, so even if it's official fanfiction, isn't it sort of unofficial cannon?

It's till kind of awesome though.