It became the first instalment in the Fifty Shades novel series that follows the deepening relationship between a college graduate, Anastasia Steele, and a young business magnate, Christian Grey. Some feel that fan fiction is not supposed to be profitable, and that James betrayed the community and its values by signing a book deal with such a major publisher.Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2011 erotic romance novel by British author E.
Supporters of fan fiction have mixed feelings about the book's overwhelming success. Since its mainstream release in 2012, "Fifty Shades" has sold over 100 million copies worldwide and launched an entire genre known as "mommy porn." It has been translated into 52 different languages and the long-awaited film adaptation, which premiered on Valentines Day, raked in $94 million on its opening weekend - a Presidents' Day record. The series' humble origins are surprising given its record-breaking success. By the end of 2012, sales hit 70 million copies worldwide. T he book sold 10 million copies in six weeks. In March 2012, James signed a 7-figure contract with Random House’s Vintage Books. “There was already a buzz about the trilogy in early 2012, appreciation for the books had gone viral,” James’s literary agent Valerie Hoskins told Vanity Fair last week. "All of the Big Six (five now) publishers in New York City were very keen to offer for it.”
Literary agents soon took notice of the book's rising online popularity. "I will rewrite this thing, and create these iconic characters, Christian and Ana."Ī screenshot of the link to the first chapter of 'Masters of the Universe,' a fan fiction erotica book about an average girl named Bella Swan meeting the wealthy, handsome Edward Cullen. I’ve got a couple unpublished novels here," James' agent told the LA Times. " She took it down and thought, I’d always wanted to write. Many readers deemed James' stories too provocative for, however, and she was forced to remove some of them from the site. "It was one of tens of thousands, really hundreds of thousands, of stories written by this vast community of women who were inspired to write and share stories by 'Twilight ,'" Anne Jamison, author of "Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World," told CBC News. she just kind of flipped this switch in my head." Shortly after reading the books, James says she sat down and decided to write a book of her own. "I just sat on my sofa and just read them and read them and read them," James told ABC back in 2012, referring to the books in the "Twilight" series.
James started posting her own erotic take on the novels on, an online forum that allows fans to write stories based on the settings and characters in some of their favorite works. After reading the "Twilight" series, "Fifty Shades" author E.L.
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