Fan Fiction On French TV

Fan Fiction On French TV

France 4 TV aired a documentary on Fan Fiction with clips of an interview with me about my writing of the Bantam Paperback STAR TREK LIVES! and my Star Trek fan fiction, the Kraith Series.

http://www.france4.fr/emission/fanfiction-ce-que-lauteur-oublie-decrire

The general subject is about the problem of copyright when individuals spin off fanfic, and the focus is the book I have an article in, titled Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1939529190

You can find the Kraith Series up for free reading here:
http://www.simegen.com/fandom/startrek/kraith/

REVIEWS of the TV Documentary:

http://www.lemonde.fr/televisions-radio/article/2016/04/18/les-ecrivains-n-ont-plus-le-dernier-mot_4904054_1655027.html

http://teleobs.nouvelobs.com/la-selection-teleobs/20160412.OBS8351/ne-ratez-pas-fanfiction-ce-que-l-auteur-a-oublie-d-ecrire.html

http://next.liberation.fr/livres/2016/04/27/fans-et-auteurs-a-la-fois_1449074

Writers should note how well edited this documentary is.  It covers a lot of ground, brings the participants to life, and portrays accurately the character and motivations of fanfic writers and readers.

This is difficult editing.  The interview with me, which ran about 3 hours, reduces to clips of a few seconds, but note how the articles reviewing the presentation mention me.  There are other articles that were published that are no longer available online (yes, all in French).

Plans are to create the English subtitles for this documentary and distribute it more widely than just in France -- but also note, France itself is NOT a small audience!

Public attitudes toward fan fiction have changed.  So ask yourself, what attitudes will change next?

What will you do when/if fans of your books write and post fanfiction in your universe?
Here is a page with links to many fanfic stories in my Sime~Gen Universe, some of which are now professionally published in updated versions, re-edited.
http://www.simegen.com/sgfandom/rimonslibrary/

Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com
http://amazon.com/author/jacquelinelichtenberg

Holiday sales could launch e-book readers as mass-market must-haves - washingtonpost.com

I've been in a lengthy and detailed discussion in the Romance Community boards at Amazon on the future of copyright
http://www.amazon.com/tag/romance/forum/ref=cm_cd_ef_tft_tp?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=FxM42D5QN2YZ1D&cdThread=Tx3IP0OQ9RHT7W0&displayType=tagsDetail

Where I alerted them to the following from the Washington Post

Holiday sales could launch e-book readers as mass-market must-haves - washingtonpost.com

Which is all of direct and immediate interest to me because my Dushau Trilogy is now available on Kindle, and Molt Brother and its direct sequel City of a Million Legends is on fictionwise.com as multi-format ebook, and my Vampire Romances Those of My Blood and Dreamspy are in POD available on Amazon.

There's a publisher and a few writers on this Romance Community thread interacting with readers. As I've been saying on the Alien Romance blog,
http://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2009/11/doubleblind-by-ann-aquirre.html
there is an intimate relationship between the writer, art, and the reader. The writer must choose which of all the stories in her head that she must write.

Writers have more stories than they can write in a lifetime. They must choose, and market is an important element in that choice.

The Washington Post story on ebook readers and the growth of that market is something all writers must take into account.

Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://www.jacquelinelichtenberg.com