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Greetings! First off, I apologize if I put this in the wrong forum.
I wrote a fanfic a few years ago that was completely AU. The only part of the universe which I kept was the main characters names, their personalities and a relative of one of the MCs. Everything else was my own making.
I've heard of people turning a fanfic into a novel if the fanfic was very AU. They just changed the characters names, tweaked their personalities and then published the story as an original. My question is: If the fanfic was available online but I take it down and tweak the characters slightly, can it still be published if most of the story is exactly like the fanfic was? It has been online for a few years now.
Lastly, the story has graphic male/male sex scenes in it. Does anybody know of books which have been published with such content? Gay characters in books are becoming more common but is gay sex actually publishable?
Any thoughts would be appreciated!
I wrote a fanfic a few years ago that was completely AU. The only part of the universe which I kept was the main characters names, their personalities and a relative of one of the MCs. Everything else was my own making.
I've heard of people turning a fanfic into a novel if the fanfic was very AU. They just changed the characters names, tweaked their personalities and then published the story as an original. My question is: If the fanfic was available online but I take it down and tweak the characters slightly, can it still be published if most of the story is exactly like the fanfic was? It has been online for a few years now.
Lastly, the story has graphic male/male sex scenes in it. Does anybody know of books which have been published with such content? Gay characters in books are becoming more common but is gay sex actually publishable?
Any thoughts would be appreciated!