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Apr. 22nd, 2006 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingJohn Scalzi sez: "The 2006 Stupidest FanFic Writer Award Gets Retired Early"
Get this. Idiot fanfic writer writes novel-length Star Wars book.
Idiot fanfic writer thinks "Hey, I own a vanity publishing company for poetry! Why don't I publish this?"
Idiot fanfic writer sticks unauthorised Star Wars fanfic up for sale on Amazon.com (among others)
Idiot fanfic writer than *defends* her decision to publish.
Click Scalzi, he's got all the details.
My favourite part of all this? The tags that customers have placed on it on Amazon. "bad fanfic (3), only living brain donor (3), the stupid it burns (3), a bigger mistake than Jar-Jar (1), weapons-grade stupidity (1), the goggles (1),"
Awesome.
Get this. Idiot fanfic writer writes novel-length Star Wars book.
Idiot fanfic writer thinks "Hey, I own a vanity publishing company for poetry! Why don't I publish this?"
Idiot fanfic writer sticks unauthorised Star Wars fanfic up for sale on Amazon.com (among others)
Idiot fanfic writer than *defends* her decision to publish.
Click Scalzi, he's got all the details.
My favourite part of all this? The tags that customers have placed on it on Amazon. "bad fanfic (3), only living brain donor (3), the stupid it burns (3), a bigger mistake than Jar-Jar (1), weapons-grade stupidity (1), the goggles (1),"
Awesome.