[ePub/YADS] Kindle Worlds

oakbark · Sep 12, 2013

Amazon has a franchise thing up they call Kindle Worlds. This is fan-fiction, where you write in someone else's world.. which can be a cool thing.

https://www.amazon.com/?tag=absowrit-20

Just wondering if someone done it and how it went?

Torgo · Sep 12, 2013

I'm really, really tempted to write some Barry Eisler fanfic, in which John Rain is sent to murder a publisher by an embittered author, but is won round by the indispensability of publishers and all the great things they do.

Koschei · Sep 12, 2013

For now, you can only submit to Kindle Worlds if you have a US bank account so I'm out.

bearilou · Sep 12, 2013

I've considered it. I'd love to write in a few of the Valiant Canon worlds but they are pulling from the newer run of comics, not the older set that I have so I'm out.

oakbark · Sep 12, 2013

Koschei said:
For now, you can only submit to Kindle Worlds if you have a US bank account so I'm out.

UGH.. that cuts me out too. Hope they expand the service.

Jess Haines · Sep 12, 2013

I haven't, but I know author Delilah Dawson has. You might try asking her.

HapiSofi · Sep 12, 2013

bearilou said:
I've considered it. I'd love to write in a few of the Valiant Canon worlds but they are pulling from the newer run of comics, not the older set that I have so I'm out.

Good god. A Valiant Comics fan. The few, the proud.

gingerwoman · Sep 18, 2013

Torgo said:
I'm really, really tempted to write some Barry Eisler fanfic, in which John Rain is sent to murder a publisher by an embittered author, but is won round by the indispensability of publishers and all the great things they do.

I thought you could only write for the worlds they've already bought the rights to? But I don't know much about it.

bearilou · Sep 18, 2013

gingerwoman said:
Torgo said:

I'm really, really tempted to write some Barry Eisler fanfic, in which John Rain is sent to murder a publisher by an embittered author, but is won round by the indispensability of publishers and all the great things they do.

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I thought you could only write for the worlds they already bought the rights to? But I don't know much about it.

It is!

In other news, I need to read some John Rain now.

Torgo · Sep 18, 2013

bearilou said:
It is!

In other news, I need to read some John Rain now.

I've read one John Rain novel. Just the one.

CrastersBabies · Sep 18, 2013

If someone does, post a link. I don't read fanfic, but I might if I knew someone who wrote it (from a board or whatnot).

It's an interesting way of writing. For me, I always felt like I'd have to be a super hardcore expert of a show, comic, movie to be able to write fanfic.

bearilou · Feb 5, 2014

Thread resurrection time! I figured it was better to do this than start a new thread.

Kindle Worlds is adding more to their line.

In other news...eeeeee Eternal Warrior is being added. *goes to dust off her EW*

ArachnePhobia · Feb 5, 2014

bearilou said:
Thread resurrection time! I figured it was better to do this than start a new thread.

Kindle Worlds is adding more to their line.

In other news...eeeeee Eternal Warrior is being added. *goes to dust off her EW*

G.I. Joe? G.I. Joe? I dunno about writing it but I so will be checking out what they're selling. :heart:

Marian Perera · Feb 5, 2014

ArachnePhobia said:
G.I. Joe? G.I. Joe?

Oh, that reminds me of the delightful G. I. Joe Mary Sue I read once, who was blind but who still went out to fight with the rest of them.

A reviewer asked if the Joes would tell Cobra, "Hey, our newest recruit is blind. So if you see her on a battlefield, can you make a little noise so she knows where to aim?"

ArachnePhobia · Feb 5, 2014

Queen of Swords said:
Oh, that reminds me of the delightful G. I. Joe Mary Sue I read once, who was blind but who still went out to fight with the rest of them.

A reviewer asked if the Joes would tell Cobra, "Hey, our newest recruit is blind. So if you see her on a battlefield, can you make a little noise so she knows where to aim?"

Speaking of, article didn't say what continuity (or continuities) they accept stories for. I'd assume IDW, but there are even several of those, and then there's the movies which are also still ongoing, so yeah.

heza · Feb 5, 2014

Am I reading this right? L.J. Smith, former writer of the Vampire Diaries, is now writing and selling Vampire Diaries fanfic through Kindle Worlds?

Huh.

rainsmom · Feb 5, 2014

Hahahahaha! Good for her! If word gets out, she'll likely make more money that way than she ever made doing the work-for-hire Vampire Diaries books. And I bet her fanfic will be accepted as cannon.

heza · Feb 20, 2014

Apparently, other people have caught on to Smith's antics, and it's news now.

Diana_Rajchel · Feb 20, 2014

Hm. I have written fanfic. I am also a major fan of Veronica Mars...I have really been considering some meta work based on Gossip Girl...

Old Hack · Feb 21, 2014

I did laugh when I read about the Vampyre Diaries writer. That's brilliant!

gingerwoman · Feb 21, 2014

So Kindle Worlds is self publishing? You have to pay for your own cover, self edit, and do your own formatting?

bearilou · Feb 21, 2014

gingerwoman said:
So Kindle Worlds is self publishing? You have to pay for your own cover, self edit, and do your own formatting?

Kindle Worlds is a publication submission platform where you choose a licensed World, read the Content Guidelines for that World, write your story, upload that story, create a cover using free images or your own image, and accept a publishing contract with Amazon Publishing. It’s simple and it’s fast. Every Kindle Worlds story will be featured on Amazon.com and Kindle devices and apps. Review the steps below to learn how to publish your story.

and then further down on the How It Works page:

Kindle Worlds Review
Kindle Worlds will review your story to make sure it follows Content Guidelines.
If it does, we will publish your story and notify you.
If it does not, we will let you know so you can edit and resubmit.

LOTLOF · Feb 21, 2014

So it's self publishing fanfiction in certain licensed worlds, and exclusive to Amazon.

It's a very specific and limited niche, but if you are already a fan of GI Joe, The Vampire Diaries, or Valiant Comics then you may be in luck.

K.B. Parker · Feb 21, 2014

I'm still waiting on Buffy...

LOTLOF · Feb 22, 2014

The day they license any of the following: Star Trek, Star Wars, Naruto, A Song of Ice and Fire, Wheel of Time, Marvel Comics, or DC Comics I will jump on this hard.

[ePub/YADS] Kindle Worlds

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