shadowkat: (work/reading) [personal profile] shadowkat Just
finished the popular new novel by EL James entitled Fifty Shades
of Grey. Last week, out of curiousity, I decided to try a free
sample of this novel on my Kindle. The nifty thing about Kindles
and e-readers is you can sample the first 50-100 pages of any
book for free.  What I knew about Fifty Shades was that it was a
risque S&M erotica novel based on a Twilight fanfic.  Vintage, a
division of Random House, has come forward and asserted that the
50 Shades series is wholly original fiction and that the author
has warranted it is original fiction, deviating substantially
from the original fan fiction known as Master of the Universe.
As numerous reports have outlined, 50 SHADES OF GREY grew out of
a multi-part series of fan fiction called MASTERS OF THE
UNIVERSE, based on Stephenie Meyer’s TWILIGHT novels, that James
(a pseudonym for London-based television executive Erika
Leonard) published online between 2009 and 2011 in various
venues, including fan