Playing in Jane’s sandbox
Alert Janeite KelleyB sent us a link to an article from the Wall Street Journal Online about fan fiction. (As a longtime fanfic writer, we are always amused by the way journalists act like this is a new phenomenon; really, hasn’t everyone heard about it by now?) The article mentions Pamela Aidan, author of the Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman trilogy, though not by name. (And we believe the “copy editor from Brooklyn” would be Cassandra Claire of the hilarious Very Secret Diaries of Lord of the Rings fame.)
September 18th, 2006 at 10:58 am
I saw the articel too, and couldn’t help but wonder WHY authors such as Aidan were mentioned, but not named!!! What a snub!
September 18th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
I used to think that fan fiction was only written by obsessed lunatics. Now I realize that I am an obsessed lunatic.
September 18th, 2006 at 5:22 pm
It’s almost like they didn’t want to give them any power by naming them.