Books Are Dead: Another Twilight Fan Fiction Makes Bank
Indie romance novelist Sylvain Reynard has inked a “substantial seven-figure deal” with Penguin Group’s Berkley imprint for Gabriel’s Inferno and Gabriel’s Rapture.
The book began as Twilight fan fiction, telling the story of “a sinful exploration of sex, love, and redemption” between a Dante scholar and his graduate student. Reynard had published with Omnific Publishing, a publisher “nurturing talented amateur writers into professional published authors. [Twilight Fandom Publishing House, similar to TWCS.]
Knight Agency president Deidre Knight and co-agent Melissa Jeglinski represented Omnific Publishing in the deal with senior editor Cindy Hwang. Berkley [*sob*] will print 500,000 trade paperback copies of each book.
Omnific Publishing president Elizabeth Harper [Psymom, creator of the Twilighted fan fiction site] had this comment in the release: “These books transcend the stereotypical romance and take readers on a deep and moving journey that will stay with them forever … We believe that romance readers, who are primarily women, are intelligent, creative, sensitive, and complex, and books like these honor these qualities in those readers.” [Bella and Edward meet, Edward is controlling and misogynistic but quotes a lot of literature and art while they have copious amounts of sex. Therefore, it's "intelligent".]
Like Fifty Shades of Grey, the series began as Twilight fan fiction. As Anne Jamison notes on her blog, the book began as The University of Edward Masen by Sebastien Robichaud. Follow this link to watch a fan-made trailer for the original fan fiction.
The story has since been removed from the web.
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So, once again, someone writes a fan fiction, changes the names and gets an obscene book deal. This one upsets me so much because I loved the Berkley Imprint. One of my favorite authors publishes on that imprint and now I can't, in good conscious, purchase from them anymore. This is so repugnant.
Dear REAL Authors reading this (and I know you're out there, I've seen some of you say so on Twitter): You should all be incredibly angry about this. Any real author should be. Please start making your voices heard with publishers. It might keep happening anyway, but they should know they have something to lose (and I want to keep buying your books).
The book began as Twilight fan fiction, telling the story of “a sinful exploration of sex, love, and redemption” between a Dante scholar and his graduate student. Reynard had published with Omnific Publishing, a publisher “nurturing talented amateur writers into professional published authors. [Twilight Fandom Publishing House, similar to TWCS.]
Knight Agency president Deidre Knight and co-agent Melissa Jeglinski represented Omnific Publishing in the deal with senior editor Cindy Hwang. Berkley [*sob*] will print 500,000 trade paperback copies of each book.
Omnific Publishing president Elizabeth Harper [Psymom, creator of the Twilighted fan fiction site] had this comment in the release: “These books transcend the stereotypical romance and take readers on a deep and moving journey that will stay with them forever … We believe that romance readers, who are primarily women, are intelligent, creative, sensitive, and complex, and books like these honor these qualities in those readers.” [Bella and Edward meet, Edward is controlling and misogynistic but quotes a lot of literature and art while they have copious amounts of sex. Therefore, it's "intelligent".]
Like Fifty Shades of Grey, the series began as Twilight fan fiction. As Anne Jamison notes on her blog, the book began as The University of Edward Masen by Sebastien Robichaud. Follow this link to watch a fan-made trailer for the original fan fiction.
Click to viewThe story has since been removed from the web.
Source
So, once again, someone writes a fan fiction, changes the names and gets an obscene book deal. This one upsets me so much because I loved the Berkley Imprint. One of my favorite authors publishes on that imprint and now I can't, in good conscious, purchase from them anymore. This is so repugnant.
Dear REAL Authors reading this (and I know you're out there, I've seen some of you say so on Twitter): You should all be incredibly angry about this. Any real author should be. Please start making your voices heard with publishers. It might keep happening anyway, but they should know they have something to lose (and I want to keep buying your books).