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Q&A Can fanfics be bestsellers? [closed]

Fanfiction is somewhat of an uncharted territory, which few actual writers/critics take serious note of or are very enthusiastic about. It has been long asked and established whether publishing fan...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Soha Farhin Pine‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

Question fiction fan-fiction
#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T09:57:02Z (about 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/39383
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar Soha Farhin Pine‭ · 2019-12-08T09:57:02Z (about 5 years ago)
Fanfiction is somewhat of an uncharted territory, which few actual writers/critics take serious note of or are very enthusiastic about. It has been long [asked and established](https://writing.stackexchange.com/questions/29976/is-fan-fiction-publishable) whether publishing fanfics is even legally possible at all. Yes, it is possible as long as the work in question doesn't violate copyrights and the plot line isn't too dependent on the original novel it was inspired from. But have there been cases where works that count as fanfiction to some degree have been literally successful and turned out as bestsellers?

Of course, I understand that it isn't very fruitful or wise for a budding writer to work in this genre. One will just be wasting their time and talent. I just feel that having examples of the exceptional bestseller fanfics at hand would be useful for all of those writers out there.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2018-10-12T21:38:15Z (about 6 years ago)
Original score: 13