I found them in the bargain bin of my college bookstore, read the backs, and immediately purchased them (this was just before I learned of the PPC as well). I haven't read them, though, because I want to read them in order, but I don't have the first book yet. In retrospect, I should have asked for those for Christmas...Anyway, the series sounds like pure awesome-sauce to me, and I can't wait to start reading them.

all of five fanfictions for the series (and none of them warrant sporking)

I should hope not; I wrote one of them. There are a few more TN fanfics on Jasper Fforde's own site. (Yes, a published author who hosts fanfics of his fandom)

As far as I remember the books, Jurisfiction does not deal with fanfiction. It deals with what goes on in the book world. Fanfiction takes place outside the book world. For fanfiction to have an effect on canon characters in Jasper Fforde's universe, book characters would have to be introduced to fanfiction by someone who can travel into books and tell them about it.

I've always figured that there was an annex to the Well of Lost Plots, accessible by one door on the third floor. I had a little scene in mind where Thursday finds the door one day and asks about it and is told the Bayou of Fanfiction is behind that door, and Jurisfiction doesn't go there. "They have their ... own law enforcement operation."

... is that Jasper Fforde forbids people from writing fanfiction based on his books. So unfortunately the whole thing is a non-starter. It's still a great idea, though.

It's been tangentially looked at before, actually (which is the only way it could be). Agent Quen, from the Department of Personnel, was asked to look into the possibility of cooperation. Her only comment on the matter (she hasn't reported any success - or failure) is here.

hS, encyclopaedia of trivia

... without wishing to dampen your enthusiasm (and it does sound like a fun series) we have a fairly official policy of not recruiting canon characters, no matter how well they'd fit into our little organisation.

THAT SAID, there would be nothing at all against someone inventing an Agent who was from that continuum, provided they weren't a canon character :) And that could be a lot of fun, with the agent talking about differences in procedures and so on and so forth :D