P.N. Elrod!

Project: A-Kon - Sunday - Authors has information regarding on of the panels where fans asked authors what they thought of fan fiction.  P.N. Elrod was one such author.  The following is an extract pertaining to those comments:

When Elrod was asked if she had a suggestion for those writers, she replied with the story of her experience with a fan who sent her a fan fic based on Elrod's Jack Fleming vampire-detective character. The fan may have thought she was paying a compliment to Elrod, but Elrod was angered, not liking any unauthorized use of her work. The authors noted that fan fic writers have graduated to professional work, but they warned those aspiring authors that never should submit a fan fic to a publisher - and they should avoid any tinge of plagiarism if they want to succeed.

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