Quote from: nexus on Dec 14, 2007, 04:46:56 PM
huge fan steve
was just curious
when you come on a board like this do you read any of the fan fictions and if so have you seen any you liked or wanted to expand on yourself,or even sat there and thought....i wish i thought of that?
lol
No, I don't read fanfic. (And I don't read books that people I don't know send me via email, for legal reasons.)
Even though the fans don't own the characters in the A, P, or AvP universe, they sometimes can get possessive, and I don't want anybody thinking I swiped something from them. Not that either of us have any rights -- it all belongs to Fox and even the books must be approved by them.
Ideas are cheap and folks tend to have some of the same ones at the same time. First novel I sold was about a mutant bacteria, and the editor told me she had gotten two other books with very similar themes the same week. The zeitgeist is out there, and if you have an idea, probably somebody in the world is also having that thought at the same time.
I piss off enough fans already, no point in making it any worse.