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Candice with an I ([info]supersyncspaz7) wrote in [info]fandom_lounge,
@ 2008-03-11 11:57:00
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Current mood:ecstatic

Libba Bray, author of A Great and Terrible Beauty (and its two sequels), shares her thoughts on fan fiction.


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[info]scifantasy
2008-03-11 06:05 pm UTC (link)
So:

Feel free to write fanfic.
Don't make money from it.
She'll never read it.

This is the best-case scenario for authors and fanfiction, as I see it.

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[info]velvet_mace
2008-03-11 06:07 pm UTC (link)
Nice! It's good to see more writers coming out pro-fanfiction.

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[info]thoms
2008-03-11 06:12 pm UTC (link)
Libba rocks!!!

Now I just need to figure out where I put my copy of the third Gemma book so I can read it. It's here somewhere...

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[info]phosfate
2008-03-11 06:43 pm UTC (link)
And now I know where Esme Squalor got her name.

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[info]mistressrenet
2008-03-11 08:06 pm UTC (link)
Hahah, yes!

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[info]puipui
2008-03-11 08:37 pm UTC (link)
I knew that one! But only because I read it online somewhere well after I'd started reading Lemony Snicket.

Same thing with all the dedications to Beatrice, I'd had no idea that was a reference until I saw a side conversation about Dante on FW once.

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[info]keri
2008-03-12 03:55 am UTC (link)
Did you know about Jerome already? For me, once I figured that one out, it was nothing to figure out Esme's name.

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(no subject) - [info]phosfate, 2008-03-12 02:27 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]keri, 2008-03-13 04:04 am UTC

[info]soupspooks
2008-03-11 06:46 pm UTC (link)
I approve of her thoughts on fanfiction. That's all I want, really. XD

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[info]brennalarose
2008-03-11 07:54 pm UTC (link)
I love this woman. I've never read anything by her, but I love her.

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[info]mistressrenet
2008-03-11 08:06 pm UTC (link)
She's going on my to-read list now.

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(no subject) - [info]thoms, 2008-03-11 08:20 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]chibikaijuu, 2008-03-11 11:28 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]chaimonkey, 2008-03-12 12:25 am UTC

[info]imp
2008-03-11 08:23 pm UTC (link)
I ♥ Libbra Bray. She's so made of awesome. (And everyone should read her books, because they're like... A Victorian era version of The Craft. Only BETTER.)

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[info]evilsqueakers
2008-03-12 07:41 am UTC (link)
You mean Skeet's not gonna go flying out the window? Woe.

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[info]mercutia
2008-03-11 08:33 pm UTC (link)
She's awesome. She wins the Lee Goldberg Award For Allowing Fans Creative Expression. And I'm almost tempted to make one, send it to her, and mail him a picture of same. Not gonna, but still.

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[info]julesnoctambule
2008-03-12 12:38 am UTC (link)
Doooo iiiiiit.

[/peer pressure]

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(no subject) - [info]mercutia, 2008-03-12 02:14 am UTC

[info]pfeffermuse
2008-03-12 02:24 am UTC (link)
So how long before LG denounces her and fanfic?

He's late this year; he didn't do one during the February sweeps.

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(no subject) - [info]thoms, 2008-03-12 08:04 pm UTC

[info]sticks
2008-03-12 12:14 am UTC (link)
Book three is out? I don't remember anything about books one and two except that they involved someone's dead mom, India, a boarding school, absinthe, an alternate reality, and anagrams of "I AM LORD VOLDEMORT"-esque proportions, but I guess I know what I'll be reading over Easter break.

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[info]keri
2008-03-12 03:59 am UTC (link)
It's quite a capstone book, and I feel it make the whole trilogy. My feelings/memories were fairly similar to yours all this last year, and then I read the final book and it was very much "so this is why the other two books were so worth reading!" only not quite that, since I've always felt they were nice bubblegum books, better than most but not as dear to me as others.

At any rate, it's quite good.

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(no subject) - [info]eilisliana, 2008-03-12 08:28 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]keri, 2008-03-13 04:05 am UTC
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[info]blue_penguin
2008-03-12 01:18 am UTC (link)
That may be the best possible attitude an author could have towards fanworks. I think Libba Bray has just gained back a little of the respect she lost from me when she thanked Cassie Claire in the acknowledgments of her second book. Yes, I know how petty that is of me.

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[info]squeakthemouse
2008-03-12 01:24 am UTC (link)
OMG, I saw that! I was wondering if it was the same CC...

She (LB) probably has little if any knowledge of the whole HP plagiarists bloohaha, or at least that was my rationale for forgiving her...

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(no subject) - [info]eilisliana, 2008-03-12 08:32 am UTC

[info]eleutheria
2008-03-12 03:20 am UTC (link)
Don't feel bad, I had exactly the same reaction when I saw CC thanked in Ellen Kushner's latest book. It was all "OMG I love this book!!!" and then :'( How the hell does she weasel her way in with such excellent authors?

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(no subject) - [info]mrbimble, 2008-03-12 06:34 am UTC
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[info]squeakthemouse
2008-03-12 01:22 am UTC (link)
I think I love her even more now, if that's possible.

It's depressing that her books are so underrrated whereas crap like Twilight gets movie deals (sorry, but my friend's a big Twilight fangirl, I hate those books, and I just wanted an excuse to say something bitchy about them).

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(no subject) - [info]eilisliana, 2008-03-12 08:24 am UTC

[info]highlander_ii
2008-03-12 01:36 am UTC (link)
That's very similar to Jim Butcher's view - 'do what you want, just don't tell me about it or send it to me.'

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[info]twoiskewl
2008-03-12 01:45 am UTC (link)
oh well her books are going on my reading list now I think

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[info]vorpal_blade
2008-03-12 03:22 am UTC (link)
Lee Goldberg, take note: This is how NOT to be a complete asshat.

Nice to see a published author with some perspective on this other than, "Everything I have written is too perfect for ANYONE ELSE to ever do my universe justice."

(Anne Rice, you should also be taking notes.)

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[info]evilsqueakers
2008-03-12 07:44 am UTC (link)
I don't even know who this lady is but, hey, she's got sense. That's a nice change in the world of authors.

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(no subject) - [info]supersyncspaz7, 2008-03-12 08:12 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]keri, 2008-03-13 04:10 am UTC
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