4:17 pm - 02/21/2013
A debut author who graduated from the celebrated Iowa Writers' Workshop has a seven-figure book deal.
HarperCollins announced Wednesday that it will publish Erika Johansen's "Queen of the Tearling," a fantasy trilogy inspired in part by Barack Obama.
A person with knowledge of the negotiations said Wednesday the deal was worth seven figures. The person was not authorized to discuss financial details and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The 35-year-old Johansen says she heard then-Sen. Obama give a speech in 2007 and was inspired to create the series' idealistic heroine, 19-year-old Kelsea Glynn. The publisher is billing the books as a female version of George R.R. Martin's "Game of Thrones."
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BRB, dusting off my old fanfiction so I too can make millions
Seven-figure book deal for "Game of Thrones for women, inspired by Barack Obama"
A debut author who graduated from the celebrated Iowa Writers' Workshop has a seven-figure book deal.
HarperCollins announced Wednesday that it will publish Erika Johansen's "Queen of the Tearling," a fantasy trilogy inspired in part by Barack Obama.
A person with knowledge of the negotiations said Wednesday the deal was worth seven figures. The person was not authorized to discuss financial details and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The 35-year-old Johansen says she heard then-Sen. Obama give a speech in 2007 and was inspired to create the series' idealistic heroine, 19-year-old Kelsea Glynn. The publisher is billing the books as a female version of George R.R. Martin's "Game of Thrones."
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BRB, dusting off my old fanfiction so I too can make millions
In all seriousness though, I'm starting to think along the same lines as the OP - where is my shitty white-cock Inuyasha fanfic from years long since past? I need to cash that check - just gotta rename the character & I'm in business.
& I still have all my fic from ye olde days on a flash-drive. I still remember the day my mom found one of my fics, ... I got grounded from the computer for a YEAR ( all because I was writing oral sex scenes at the tender age of 9. )
Ah, memories.
Ser Christian of Grey, his sex dungeon and his mommy issues will look positively vanilla next to characters Joffrey, Roose and Ramsay.
The characters are pretty much 50/50 male/female and all of the best ones are the girls tbh
Why, what, idgi
I whole concept of "books for women" and how men don't like them and neither do "some women" and how that makes you into a particular kind of person who seeks out corniness and entertainment but not rly interested in being intellectually stimulated
I read all the fucking things, and so do most women whether it be classics, scifi or romance
I just...
It's 2013 people
TWENTY THIRTEEN
And wtf at the book being based on Obama, is he going to be the hero? The love interest? The special white girl protagonist's cool sidekick? So many questions...
no.