October 8th, 2012
entertainmentweekly: 50 Shades of Beautiful? 16-year-old Emily Baker just inked a deal with Penguin to publish a fanfiction story about a teen who finds herself caught in an intense love triangle with two of the boys from One Direction. Just like 50 Shades of Grey, the names in Baker’s original story — which has already been scrubbed from the Internet — will be changed in order to avoid copyright infringement. Apparently, one of the boys is now named Shaq. SHAQ. More on Baker, her book’s title, and her ardent fan base here. This is bullshit! My sister and my friend Jake should have gotten totally rich off their Hanson and X-Files (respectively) fan fiction from the late 90s, god dammit. Why weren’t publishers hip to teen ramblings on Angelfire 15 years ago?

entertainmentweekly:

50 Shades of Beautiful?

16-year-old Emily Baker just inked a deal with Penguin to publish a fanfiction story about a teen who finds herself caught in an intense love triangle with two of the boys from One Direction.

Just like 50 Shades of Grey, the names in Baker’s original story — which has already been scrubbed from the Internet — will be changed in order to avoid copyright infringement. Apparently, one of the boys is now named Shaq. SHAQ.

More on Baker, her book’s title, and her ardent fan base here.

This is bullshit! My sister and my friend Jake should have gotten totally rich off their Hanson and X-Files (respectively) fan fiction from the late 90s, god dammit. Why weren’t publishers hip to teen ramblings on Angelfire 15 years ago?

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[fan fiction] [One Direction] [Hanson] [The X-Files]
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