Hotarla: That's the funny thing.. he's suppose to be a mental doctor.. not sure which one.. psychologist, psychiatrist... not sure...
Like.. how the heck are you in the mental health care profession when you concentrate more on the physical D:<
Light: I didn't know she was against fanfiction, but that reminds me of the fan email I had sent her and the response I got back. I kinda wish I still had a copy of it..
Anyway, I had sent her an email praising her books and then just hating how the movies had butchered everything especially Queen of the Damned.
The response I had gotten pretty much agreed with me and had stated it was why non of her books would be getting a movie ever again. That she hated what had been done to her characters and their stories.
As someone who use to write fanfiction, and now writes my own original stories, I kinda get why an author wouldn't like fanfiction.
I'm the type of person who wouldn't want name changes to happen when works are being localized in other languages (ex: Usagi - Serena, Mamoru - Darien), I wouldn't want such a minor change like that to happen in any of my own stories if I ever published. I dunno how I'd feel about fanfiction though... I use to write fanfics myself so I think it'd be hypocritical of me to deny people from writing fanfics of my stuff if I ever published.
I looked up the fanfiction issue stuff. Seemed she sent Cease and Desist letters out to people and websites. Rumors of harassment and doxxing went around, but no actual evidence of it that I can find. There's no sign of her actually suing people though. Seems the fans that didn't respect her wishes merely went underground and posted fanfics in a similar manner to how pirates share stuff they've pirated. The internet was still young back then so archiving and saving proof of this stuff wasn't really big back then. Now it seems like everything is being archived in some shape or form.
Saw that her publisher was the one who pushed her to do legal action. The thing I read makes me feel that they played on her over protectiveness of her books and characters. If they hadn't pushed her to go that far, she probably would have just asked FF.net and others to just not host fanfics of her works like other authors have. Heck, if they hadn't brought it up, she probably would have continued to ignore them.
By 2012 she regretted how she handled things, she still didn't like fanfiction of her works but she understood that fanfiction was how some people got into writing and would eventually move on to their own original works. "Live and Let Live" is what she said in an article with metro. She said she was scared that fanfictions would block her. What she meant by block I don't know, but it may be referring to her publishers saying that fanfiction would cannibalize any e-book they published (As Merrick was going to be a e-book exclusive at the time).
At this point in time, who knows.
I remember that she hated how Hollywood butchered her stories when they turned them into movies, and yet AMC now has bought the rights to 2 of her series and is going to make a tv series based on them. I hope Christopher Rice keeps them in line now that Anne isn't there to work on the scripts.
https://youtu.be/oxo_SygM6lQ
trailer for Interview. o3o