If you didn't make it up--you didn't even make the characters up--why are you making money off of it?

See, this is my problem with the whole post-Ludlum Bourne thing. At least that guy can write a bit will, though! *head shake*

The thing sucks, but Phobos did say it does have it's own universe, ripped off as it is.

On the other hand, it's a bad story based off a badfic. I can't see how this could get worse.

All of those not-sherlock-holmes stories that popped up after the short stories became popular. Just that this is not-Twilight.

It was originally intended to be a fanfic, however, it was eventually published as its /own/ universe. As such, I am in favor of treating it as a stand-alone series, despite its former status.

Also, let me just say, I never want to see a Twilight/He-Man crossover.

Ever.

/Ever./

But since it is published and intended to be read as its own universe, it must be protected like any other stand-alone 'verse.

That doesn't stop it from being ridiculous and possibly on the same level as Twilight, however.

Really? Just...really? How can this happen! I'm...I'm just going to go crawl into a corner and cry now.

It started as a fanfic. However, they changed the details and it got published, so now it is a separate work.

It has become its own universe. You could spork the original fanfiction, but not the work it later became.

That is how I see it.

IMO, it's an original universe, albeit not a good one. And now I'm seriously considering sporking it.

Personally, I think that it's Twilight knockoff...
Yeah, I think it would best if we treated this as a badfic and sporked this thing to the moon.

If it started as a fanfic, then it's a fanfic. Anything written based on it is fanfic.

What. The. Deuce.

Seriously?! If I thought I could pull it off, I'd be sending all my crappy Potterfic and Hetalia-fic to publishers. But alas...

It says a lot about Twihraka that all you have to do is change the names and get rid of the vampires, and you have a completely different (and still totally embleer) romance novel.

Someone needs to spork it. It's based on a badfic (Book!Edward, as far as I can tell, has no interest in BDSM), and a badfic with the names changed is still a badfic, ne?

If Jay and Acacia weren't in retirement, they ought to do it.

Actually... That would be kind of a cool story. The new members of the PPC pull the legendary Jay and Acacia from retirement to take on one last mission... 8D

And this is why some forms of literature should not be rewritten and published.

If the series had indeed began as fanfiction, then subsequently altered for the general public, hen I think it was done poorly for one critical reason: the underpinning tones and ideologies.

In fanfiction, IMO, it's relativly fine to, say, have these strange fantasies and whatnot about relationships and how they would turn out, etc. But if an author is writing for the general public, then that needs to entail the maturity and responsibility that can be expected of such a writer; real world experience needs to come to the fore here. Unfortunately, this doesn't appear to be the case.

As for your questions, I cannot provide solid answers on this one. Perhaps someone with more experience within the PC could answer?

...obviously the answer is "change all the names".

Minor thing with the Dear Author review: sometimes Kindle just randomly italicises whole pages for no reason. I don't know why. If it appears in the PRINT edition, then yeah, we have a problem.

Also, I did post a thread a while back about fanfics of fanfics. Can't remember what happened to it.

So we have a book, that is a disguised badfic of another book, that is itself believed to be poorly written (and IMHO a badfic itself)?

Dammit. Just... dammit.

My stand fot is that since it's a only slighty re-written fanfiction it doesn't have the "officially published" protection that even Twilight has, so it's killable and bad enought to be killed. With fire. Then bombs. Then NUCLEAR bombs.

And then Sun Crush the hell out of it. Just to be freaking sure this thing is dead.

If Stephanie Meyer decides to sue the hell out of it, it will be the only time you will see me AGREEING with her.