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So the author of a fanfic I enjoy decided to pull it down to rewrite it into a novel. I know they're well within their rights to do so, but I find myself a bit...irritated? (I'm being unreasonable, I know.)
Also, I'm not sure how well an author can take a story written in an established universe and just... write everything about that entire universe out of it. (There's probably some comment about that one famous novel to be made here.)
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I've read one novel (not that one) that's quite good, and from what I've heard started as fanfic. I can recognize some of the characters from the film it's based on, not just the protagonists, but several secondary characters as well, but the book works fine on its own. I guess it helps that it started as an AU (alternate universe, for those who don't read fanfic, in other words the story uses the characters, but not the setting -- so for instance a super hero may be a hockey player, and another super hero might work in a smoothie shop and struggle with his student loans).
I've also read a few original works which were published for free first, just like fanfic is, and then was rewritten and published commercially. I enjoyed seeing the change between the two versions, and liked being able to pay the author for their work
There's an article about one of them here. (It's Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell, a space opera with romance and political intrigue.)