Potter fanfic writer launches first book

Solar wrote her Harry Potter fanfic at the age of 21

The debut novel from a Chilean writer who shot to fame after writing her own "fanfic" version of JK Rowling's Harry Potter stories has been released.

La Septima M - The Seventh M - is the first of three books that 23-year-old Chilean journalism student Francisca Solar was contracted to write by publishers Random House, following the online success of her unofficial sixth Harry Potter story, Harry Potter and the Decline of the High Elves.

Launched at the recent Frankfurt Book Fair, La Septima M centres on a mysterious series of suicides amongst young people in the fictional community of Puerto Fake.

"All the things I know about literature, about writing, I learned in the fan fiction world," Solar told BBC World Service's The Word programme.

"I owe it everything."

Online smash

Solar began her writing career when she found she was so disappointed with JK Rowling's fifth Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Order ff the Phoenix, that she wanted to write her own sequel to it.

The Decline of the High Elves became a massive online smash, generating 80,000 views and positive reviews from Harry Potter fans around the world.

All these people wrote to me about the fanfic and said they liked it more than the official sixth book

"When I read the fifth book, I was so disappointed - I'm a very critical reader, and I'm a huge fan, so the expectation of this fifth book was great," Solar said.

"I took the principle characters and I did a story that is more rich than Rowling's story, because you can have access to the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters.

"In the Harry Potter saga, you can only have access to Harry's feelings and thoughts. That is a partial view of the Potter universe."

She admitted she had never expected the global response to her work.

"Many people from all around the world have written to me, from the US, from the UK, from Asia," she said.

"All these people wrote to me about the fanfic and said they liked it more than the official sixth book [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]."

However, the editors at Random House insisted they did not want "another JK Rowling" and wanted something fresh - hence La Septima M, which will itself be followed up by two further books to complete a trilogy.

Fan fictions - fanfics - are one of the staples of internet sites dedicated to popular books, films and TV shows, although most do not generate a readership of more than a tiny handful of casual browsers.

Rowling wrote much of the first Harry Potter book in a cafe

The agency which discovered publishing sensation Harry Potter has created a literary award aimed at students.

The Christopher Little Literary Agency picked up JK Rowling's work after it had been turned down by several other publishers and agents.

Now it is offering a 1,500 prize and the chance of representation to students on the creative writing course at City University in London.

The agency said it wanted originality, talent and "not a Harry Potter clone".

Students in the final term of the MA in Creative Writing (Novels) will be asked to submit three chapters and a synopsis of the book they must write as a course requirement.

Patrick Janson-Smith of the Christopher Little Literary Agency said: "Considering the number of trees chopped down to feed this industry, real talent does not grow on them.

"We feel this is a practical way to seek out authors who are fresh and original, who have a particular voice and are not same old, same old."

The annual prize will be awarded for the first time before the end of this academic year.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6245333.stm

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wow, isnt that cool 👏 , maybe some1 from here could get their fan fics published

That is great! 👏 I would sure love to read that book!

i liked book 5, and I haven't read her fanfic., but tfs 😊

Ya it was posted at HPFF and i read about it on that site!
ISn't it great!?

thanx a lot for the news! That's s great...a HP fanfic writer published her own book! See...HP fanfic rocks!!! 👏 👏 👏

I did a google search for francisca and came upon her fanfiction.net profile page but her fanfic is in spanish or something like that. Here's the link: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/421524/

Ysh could be next!!! =D


That's really cool!!! Ysh have u read it? Spanish? 😕

Ysh could be next!!! =D


That's really cool!!! Ysh have u read it? Spanish? 😕

Wowww!!!! The first person who came into my mind when I read this was Vaish!!!! Aha Ysh? Just remember to include me somewhere as a villian!!!

So the story in in Spanish! Bad Luck! But I on't like it when the fanfic writer has said that she was dissapointed wuth the 5th book.

She has no right or even the moral responsibility to write fan-fics using the story idea from an author she critizises. It is not proper conduct, if you get what I mean. It does not matter however much good her story is-it is he morality that matters here.Anyone agrees?

Originally posted by: umrao_jaan

Wowww!!!! The first person who came into my mind when I read this was Vaish!!!! Aha Ysh? Just remember to include me somewhere as a villian!!!

So the story in in Spanish! Bad Luck! But I on't like it when the fanfic writer has said that she was dissapointed wuth the 5th book.

She has no right or even the moral responsibility to write fan-fics using the story idea from an author she critizises. It is not proper conduct, if you get what I mean. It does not matter however much good her story is-it is he morality that matters here.Anyone agrees?

I agree completely wiz u!!!!!!!!!! i mean wen i 1st started readin i was sayin 2 myself WOW HP books r so influencial zat even fanfics r becoming populaer worldwide.......... n zen to read zat coz she was dissapointed zat she wrote her fanfic n zat HER fanfic is better zan HP n z halfblood prince is nt total crap!!!!!

for me its unethical....... anyways i wish her all z best n wuld like 2 read her fanfic but still i sincerely thinks she shuld nt hav said zat!!!!!!!