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clo_againIt still disappoints me when I idly wander onto the website of an author I like to check when her next book is out, and come across the traditional FAQ answer to "Can I write fanfic based on..."; NO NO NO EVIL DIE IN HELL YOU UNCREATIVE MORON. Disclaimers are admissions of guilt at their illegality! Disrespectful! Evil! Use your own characters!
It's just, sigh. I get the freakout, kind of. I do. But why some authors can say "Don't make money off it and I won't read it but go ahead, have fun!" while others feel the need to lump fans in with people who want to 'steal' the copyright for profit...
Also, uh. "The chances of a fantasy novel being made into a movie, even a bestselling fantasy novel, is close to nil." Maybe true but from someone who writes fantasy novels, that's a little defeatist. Aside from LotR and Potter, I can name at least five such recent films without even pausing for breath (Inkheart, Dark is Rising, Spiderwick Chronicles, Prince Caspian, Stardust and that's not even going near the farce that was Eragon, my incredible flailing excitement over Peter Jackson optioning the rights to Temeraire or other films out this year like Where the Wild Things Are and The Time Traveller's Wife). There's this huge surge of interest in fantasy right now that's wonderful. I guess I just would've expected a fantasy author to have more appreciation for that, rather than 'oh LotR and Potter were freaks of nature.'
I think I'll skip that new book. Tamora Pierce has a new book in my favourite series out next year; I'll go stalk the release dates for that instead.
I also have to add that even though I knew there were good films out this year, I didn't realise there were this many. And October is shaping up to be a thing of beauty with How to Lose Friends & Alienate People being released on the 3rd. This is far too awesome. Also Wikipedia is saying the third Cornetto film will be called The World's End but I don't know if I buy that. It doesn't sound right' or sounds too much like Pirates III. Something.
It's just, sigh. I get the freakout, kind of. I do. But why some authors can say "Don't make money off it and I won't read it but go ahead, have fun!" while others feel the need to lump fans in with people who want to 'steal' the copyright for profit...
Also, uh. "The chances of a fantasy novel being made into a movie, even a bestselling fantasy novel, is close to nil." Maybe true but from someone who writes fantasy novels, that's a little defeatist. Aside from LotR and Potter, I can name at least five such recent films without even pausing for breath (Inkheart, Dark is Rising, Spiderwick Chronicles, Prince Caspian, Stardust and that's not even going near the farce that was Eragon, my incredible flailing excitement over Peter Jackson optioning the rights to Temeraire or other films out this year like Where the Wild Things Are and The Time Traveller's Wife). There's this huge surge of interest in fantasy right now that's wonderful. I guess I just would've expected a fantasy author to have more appreciation for that, rather than 'oh LotR and Potter were freaks of nature.'
I think I'll skip that new book. Tamora Pierce has a new book in my favourite series out next year; I'll go stalk the release dates for that instead.
I also have to add that even though I knew there were good films out this year, I didn't realise there were this many. And October is shaping up to be a thing of beauty with How to Lose Friends & Alienate People being released on the 3rd. This is far too awesome. Also Wikipedia is saying the third Cornetto film will be called The World's End but I don't know if I buy that. It doesn't sound right' or sounds too much like Pirates III. Something.
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