• DOI:10.1177/1329878X1415200105
Corpus ID: 140471681

‘Let's Get a Bit of Context’: Fifty Shades and the Phenomenon of ‘Pulling to Publish’ in Twilight Fan Fiction

@article{Brennan2014LetsGA,
  title={‘Let's Get a Bit of Context’: Fifty Shades and the Phenomenon of ‘Pulling to Publish’ in Twilight Fan Fiction},
  author={Joseph Brennan and D. Large},
  journal={Media International Australia},
  year={2014},
  volume={152},
  pages={27 - 39}
}

• Joseph Brennan, D. Large
• Published 2014
• Sociology
• Media International Australia

The publishing success of E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey, a series with origins as Twilight fan fiction, has energised popular interest in the practice of writing fan fiction (or ‘fanfics’). Equally, however, the series' popularity has fuelled debate on the ethics of its commercial publication. This article highlights the divisive and polarising phenomenon of ‘pulling to publish’ in the Twilight fandom. ‘Pulling to publish’ refers to the process of rewriting and republishing for profit a work… Expand

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