Feature & Follow #19

Posted 9 November, 2012 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Feature and Follow / 0 Comments

YAY it’s Friday!

Gain new followers and make new friends with the Book Blogger Feature & Follow! If this is your first time here, welcome! You are about to make some new friends and gain new followers — but you have to know — the point of this hop is to follow other bloggers also. I follow you, you follow me.

The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee’s View and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it’ll allow us to meet more new bloggers!

What sets this Hop apart from others, is that our hosts feature two blogs. Every week they will each showcase a Featured Blogger, from all different genres and areas. Just remember it is required, if you participate, to follow both their featured as well as our lovely hosts as a courtesy. How do you follow someone? Well, if you have a preference, state it in your #FF post. A lot of blogs are transitioning to WordPress in which we do not have the luxury of GFC, so an RSS subscription is appreciated or if you want to, you can choose an email subscription, linky, networked blog or bloglovin. If you followed me by GFC on my blogspot blog, I’d love it if you can find another way to follow me now.

As you can imagine, this is a great way to get to know your fellow bloggers better, as well as a way to find new blogs, and be seen by more people yourself.

Now, on to this week’s question

Q: Do you mind books with similar ideas to other books? Similar concepts, backgrounds, re-tellings or pulled-to-publish fanfic?

Yes, I do mind in different degrees. I can get over similar concepts, if the characters, world-building and actual story / plot is different. An author has to be inspired, and sometimes, a concept is all it takes. The backgrounds, it depends on, if there was a new book to come out that had, let’s say the same background as in the Graceling Realm series, I would mind. A lot. Re-tellings, it depends on how it’s done. There have been a lot of fairy tale re-tellings lately, and I’m OK with those… to a point. If it messes too much with something I love, I’m out. And P2P fanfic is the biggest no-no ever in my book. Using another author’s universe and characters is OK when it is just for love, and sharing with other fans. However, actually earning money off another author’s hard work, after maybe only changing the character names is like stealing IMO.

What about you? How much similarity is too much?

Thanks for stopping by, have a fantastic Friday and a wonderful weekend!

Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms

About Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms

Linda is an English as foreign language teacher and has a Master's degree in English Language and Literature. She's an avid reader, blogger, compulsive one-clicker and a genre omnivore. Ever since she learnt how to read she has been seen with a book or two in her hands everywhere she goes.

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0 responses to “Feature & Follow #19

    • LOL Fifty Shames of Earl Grey is hilarious! And since it’s a parody, I feel differently about it than I do about other ways of inspiration.
      Thanks for stopping by 🙂 Have a wonderful weekend.

  1. I agree, in fantasy it matters a lot. If someone tried to sell a story to me with the Graceling setting, I would be quite peeved. Fantasy is all about coming up with new and awesome ideas, at least that’s what I enjoy when I read fantasy books! Great answer 🙂 And thanks for stopping by my blog, I’m following you back 😀

    • Thanks for stopping by Alison 🙂 I agree with canon fanfic 🙂 but the P2P just feels wrong to me, mostly because it was all out there for free, then the writer(s) decide to take it all of the interwebs to earn money.

  2. I wouldn’t be able to read a fantasy book that just borrowed a world from another book and slapped a different name on it. For me, the world-building is a huge part of what makes books in that genre unique, so copying and pasting is a big no-no there.

    Old Linky follower, new Twitter follower. Our FF

  3. I mind P2P fanfiction as well except in the case of Jane Austen retellings like Epic Fail and Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rock Star…not sure why that doesn’t bother me. Great answer! Old follower.

    Jennifer @ Feminist Fairy Tale Reviews

    • I bet you’ve been busy this weekend with loads of comments 😀 Thanks for taking the time to stop by here as well. Have a lovely week.

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