[ SECRET POST #5216 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5216 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 48 secrets from Secret Submission Post #747.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Self publishing is a thing.

[(Anonymous)]

+1, and the people who enjoy the BNF's other work will probably buy and enjoy it anyway.

[kallanda_lee]

Oh, it totally is. But depending on how they estimate their ability, they might try actual publishers first.

[(Anonymous)]

(Cozy Werewolf Anon) using your fanbase to support you self-pubbing something is extremely risky. Usually, it works best if the thing is an AU of the fandom they're a BNF in already. See 50 Shades (who abused AO3 marketing.) Cassie Claire (who abused and stepped on everyone.) After (I dunno the story behind this one actually.) And so on.

But honestly, not enough info given in the secret. There's nothing wrong with trying it. Just err... they better be a pretty huge BNF.

[(Anonymous)]

NA - Yeah, I've been reading fanfic voraciously for fifteen years and there's like...two or three fic writers whose original fiction I might look into if they were like, "Hey, I got published, check it out!"

Convincing people to make the leap from reading your fanfic to reading your original fiction is very, very difficult. No matter how beloved a fanfic author is and no matter how good their fanfic is, my guess is that 99% of their readers will not follow them to original fiction.

I just read Uprooted by Naomi Novik the other day (the first bit of her original fiction I've read), and I read it because my friend who is into fantasy fiction recommended it to me. I've been reading astolat's fanfic for like eight years, and that was way less of a persuading factor than my friend saying, "Hey, this is a good book, I think you might like it."

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah... honestly? I think the fanfic writers who mostly separate their fandom lives from their traditional publishing aspirations are usually more successful. Sure, they may throw in an OC or an OOC canon character to test out whether or not readers engage with them before they file the serial numbers off, but fanfic fanbases just don't carry over to original work most of the time.