This week, our co-worker in AMI's Marketing & Communications department, Cassandra Chaddock, schools us on fan-fiction basics. It's a strange world of boundless creativity with nothing holding writers back from creating the stories they and their readers want. Without the constraints of sales, editors and publishers, the fan-fiction community cranks out truly weird, wildly imaginative and often beautiful stories based on the IPs we all know and love. Behind their eccentricities, there's an undeniably endearing quality to fan-fiction stories.

From shipping wars to Wattpad, we take our time unravelling this often forgotten realm of the literature world.

Link to the book Jacob mentions:

The Fanfiction Reader by Francesca Coppa: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/32072607

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