LJ Smith makes vampire lemonade via Kindle Worlds

[fjtorres]

"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."

http://www.mhpbooks.com/fired-vampir...s-for-revenge/

Fired from the series she created before she was done expressing her vision, LJ Smith is using the kindle worlds channel to release her stories as "fanfic", letting readers decide which arc is canon.

...as Romano lays out, a contract with a big company like Alloy means that they own the intellectual property, and they typically seek out “young, inexperienced writers who get seduced by the lure of working with a powerful entertainment arm, and don’t realize what it means not to own the property you’re working on.” And when Alloy decided they wanted the Vampire Diaries books to be more like the TV show, they cut the author loose in favor of a ghostwriter who, per Smith, barely knows the books and the world she’s built in them.

With Kindle Worlds offering opportunities to work for-hire creating fan fiction, though, Smith seized on the opportunity to continue writing the books she loved. While the service has restrictions on what can be published — writers have to adhere to guidelines set by the rights holders, and they won’t run any smut — Smith has found them easy enough to comply with. As Romano puts it, “you won’t find any of the more racy or edgy kinds of fanfiction on Kindle Worlds’ color-within-the-lines model of fic writing: but then Smith created the lines to begin with.”

Whatever works, no?

[gabby98]

Good for her
it'd serve them right if/when the true fans of the series choose lj's version over the misc version