Oh, the fans are just mostly ungrateful and clueless beyond belief. The same make and model as the folks who complain about ff.net or livejournal. A fic archive or fandom discussion board is a free service - you shouldn't expect instantaneous groveling service unless you're willing to pay for it. Or at least volunteer to help. Or *something*. I must have tried once a year to get some help with archiving and forum maintenance and got nothing but cricket chirps in return - unless something went wrong, in which case I got alot of flames and complaints. Drove me nuts.
As for Mater herself - she's known about the fic for *years*. Since '95. She only cracked down and started throwing her lawyers around last year... gee, incidentally, at the same time she was about to venture into web publishing ala Stephen King. And suddenly she didn't want any competition out on the net. Things that make you go "hmmmmm".... >_<
(And I know one of those pages you pointed out mentioned the rumor about Mater throwing her legal hissyfit because she'd actually ripped off a fanfic for her newest work. The site called it just a rumor. But her latest book is a godawfully done piece of crap involving crossing over her vampire series with her witch series, in which the lovely young witch - who SCREAMS formula Mary Sue worse then any 13 year old's first fanfic - runs off with the vampire Louis. From '95 to now, I can point out at least 6 fics who have done more or less the same thing, one of them my own very first one, and all of them have done it better then that piece of tripe Mater put out on the market!)
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Date: 2001-04-17 04:35 am (UTC)As for Mater herself - she's known about the fic for *years*. Since '95. She only cracked down and started throwing her lawyers around last year... gee, incidentally, at the same time she was about to venture into web publishing ala Stephen King. And suddenly she didn't want any competition out on the net. Things that make you go "hmmmmm".... >_<
(And I know one of those pages you pointed out mentioned the rumor about Mater throwing her legal hissyfit because she'd actually ripped off a fanfic for her newest work. The site called it just a rumor. But her latest book is a godawfully done piece of crap involving crossing over her vampire series with her witch series, in which the lovely young witch - who SCREAMS formula Mary Sue worse then any 13 year old's first fanfic - runs off with the vampire Louis. From '95 to now, I can point out at least 6 fics who have done more or less the same thing, one of them my own very first one, and all of them have done it better then that piece of tripe Mater put out on the market!)