Have you ever read a novel that you suspect was originally fanfic?

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Freeshadow

there is a difference for me between writing WITH the original authors permission be it by teaming or writing along the lines the author of the bookverse has set up for doing so and fanfic. I always regarded 'fanfic' as "let's trespass somebody else's bookverse and run our own barbecue unasked"

Some authors have nothing against fans writing in their bookverse and even encourage it.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by Freeshadow

there is a difference for me between writing WITH the original authors permission be it by teaming or writing along the lines the author of the bookverse has set up for doing so and fanfic. I always regarded 'fanfic' as "let's trespass somebody else's bookverse and run our own barbecue unasked"

again,

EDIT: Longer list of authors who approve than those who don't: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Professiona...anfic_Policies

EDIT: Since you obviously think fanfiiction is inferior, not sure why I bother.

[Luffy]

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52122096-manacled

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...nav_sb_ss_1_13

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by hildea

The only one that's typical modern fanfic was a hockey romance where I'd read a review mentioning that it started as a captain America/Bucky Barnes fanfic. I doubt anyone who only knew the films and comics would recognize the inspiration, though.

Where else would you go for the inspiration?

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Luffy

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52122096-manacled

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...nav_sb_ss_1_13

Are you sure you were just suspicious that these were originally fanfic?

[hildea]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

Where else would you go for the inspiration?

One fanfic subgenre is coffee shop fics. You put the original characters in an ordinary, everyday setting, like making them all employees and customers at a coffee shop instead of superheroes or whatever extraordinary they are in the original works, and play with how they'd act in that setting. Some of those fics are so different from the original works that it's pretty hard to spot the parts that are inspired by them. But someone who has read a lot of fanfic might recognise some coffee shop tropes.

In other fics, the inspiration is more obvious. Like the one where a poor artist finds a bottle with a genie who has been magically enslaved by an evil cult bent on world domination, and the artist and the genie defeat the cult together. Still pretty far from the original story of Captain America and Bucky Barnes, but enough left of the overarching story and the defining characteristics of the originals that it wouldn't be too hard to spot it even with the serial numbers filed off.

[Luffy]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Are you sure you were just suspicious that these were originally fanfic?

At first I thought Rowling was getting creative with pen names again.

[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by hildea

One fanfic subgenre is coffee shop fics. You put the original characters in an ordinary, everyday setting, like making them all employees and customers at a coffee shop instead of superheroes or whatever extraordinary they are in the original works, and play with how they'd act in that setting. Some of those fics are so different from the original works that it's pretty hard to spot the parts that are inspired by them. But someone who has read a lot of fanfic might recognise some coffee shop tropes.

"HULK ASKED FOR ALMOND MILK, NOT SKIM! *SMASH*"