Oddly, I would feel funny about selling fanfic to fans (e.g. if I put a PayPal button on my website) but not at all funny about selling it to publishers. I think what it is, for me, is deciding at the outset whether you're participating in an exchange of goods and services, or participating in a community made of relationships, and not crossing the streams.
Sherlock Holmes fanfic is a pretty well-established tradition, though. Even Stephen King has done it. Not, admittedly, with porn ...
Oddly, I would feel funny about selling fanfic to fans (e.g. if I put a PayPal button on my website) but not at all funny about selling it to publishers.
Even though the publisher is going to turn around and sell it to fans for their own profit?
The first slash I ever read (I didn't know about zines then), sometime in the very early nineties, was Rohase Piercy's "My Dearest Holmes", published by the Gay Men's Press. Hrm, wonder what I did with my copy...
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Date: 3/25/10 12:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 3/25/10 12:48 am (UTC)Sherlock Holmes fanfic is a pretty well-established tradition, though. Even Stephen King has done it. Not, admittedly, with porn ...
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Date: 3/25/10 12:55 am (UTC)Even though the publisher is going to turn around and sell it to fans for their own profit?
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