An Update on "Fifty-One Shades"
Monday, March 26A comment on GoodReads on my Fifty Shades of Grey parody, Fifty-One Shades:
I wonder if Mr. Shaffer isn't a little envious about the fact the E.L has a major publishing deal for Fifty Shades of Grey. Even if his idea was conceived for the pure fun of it, E.L is still laughing all the way to the bank.
Who said I was writing for the fun of it? I write to get rich, bitch! When I started writing and serializing Fifty-One Shades on March 9, I wrote:
New episodes posted every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, until a publisher hands me a fat stack of Benjamins and offers to publish it. Then I'll take it down, change the characters' names to "Edward" and "Bella," and hide from my fans in my new McMansion in a gated community in Beverly Hills.
In addition to completing the first draft, I've also spent the past two weeks fending off publishers.
At first it was easy to tell them to leave me alone. I'm an Artist. My Pure Vision will not be sullied by the dirty hands of commerce. Unfortunately, as the size of the McMansion that publishers dangled in front of me became progressively larger and more ridiculous, my Artistic Integrity slowly evaporated into the California sun...
I'll be suspending the excerpts on this site until I have a chance to review the offers on the table and make a decision about the direction I want to take Fifty-One Shades (now titled The Fifty Shames of Earl Grey).
Thank you to the readers who have been following the story, commenting, rating it on GoodReads, and spreading the word about Chris Gray and Anna Steal. Their story will continue, in some form. Stay tuned...
Read more at Deadline New York and PublishersWeekly.
Reader Comments (5)
The hell you say!!! I can't wait that long, lol :)
Do. What. You. Have. To. Do.
Woot Andrew! And I just read the PW article. Just hurry it up please. Don't make us wait long. This needs to be on my Kindle. So you weren't kidding when you tweeted last week about needing to decide on a pen name. God, half the time I don't know if you're full of shit or not. I still think James Meyer would be perfect. Or Stephen James. Or maybe JM Andrews.
Stefen James for sure. That would be perfect!
I had to laugh at the Goodreads comment.
E.L. might be laughing all the way to the bank, but more and more people are laughing at her poor writing skills and her inability to make a supposedly dominant character stop gasping.
I didn't get past the first 88% of the first book - couldn't stomach reading the rest but I really hope Ana had the balls to learn how to pull her own feminine hygiene products out by the end of the series. TMI? probably, sorry. But WTF?
*gasp*
My inner goddess will go sulk elsewhere because clearly I am jealous of E.L.'s popularity, it couldn't have anything to do with paying a heap of money for a shit book.