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HUGE NEWS--Valiant Joins Amazon's New 'Kindle Worlds' Fanfic Initiative

6/21/2013

 
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by Brian LeTendre

When Amazon announced their new fan fiction initiative Kindle Worlds recently, speculation immediately began as to how soon we'd see comic properties join the party. The prevailing theory was that DC would get in on the mix first, as WB-owned CW properties like Vampire Diaries were among the first licenses announced for Kindle Worlds.

Yesterday though, Valiant and Amazon dropped the bombshell that X-O Manowar, Archer & Armstrong and other well-known Valiant titles would be participating in Kindle Worlds.

To be clear, this means that you can write stories about the Valiant characters and be compensated for doing so. 

This is megaton news people, and I expect this to have a major effect on the comics industry moving forward. Make no mistake, Valiant is just the first comic publisher to jump on board with Kindle Worlds. There will be many more to follow, and I can envision this initiative becoming a recruiting pipeline for comic writers in the very near future.


We'll be talking a lot more about this going forward, and I can't wait to see who joins the initiative next. Fingers crossed that Marvel opens the doors for the Spider-Man 2099 epic I've been planning in my head for 20 years now.

TREVOR
6/20/2013 11:33:39 pm

Wow! I've been really impressed with Valiants books. Consistently good. I wish them all the luck in the world.

milkman (Ian)
6/21/2013 02:59:13 am

I know you, Trevor, have been a big fan of Valiant, would you pay for fan fiction of their books? I myself would be hard pressed to do so. I'm not sold on this idea, too many self published books are already poor in quality, I don't see that getting better with fan fiction. That said, if Marvel did let certain characters in on this, and Shang Chi was one of them, I'd probably write one.

TREVOR link
6/21/2013 03:22:48 am

I'm definitely not the audience for fan fiction of any kind. I am really interested in seeing where this goes. I know there is a fanfic community out there. If Amazon can get the rights for what those communities work in this should be a big success.

Brian
6/21/2013 11:09:26 am

I think the thing you have to remember is that 90% of comic books are fan fiction. Unless they are being written by their original creator, they are fan fiction. Dan Slott is writing fan fiction. Mark Waid is writing fan fiction. This is a chance for other people to get in on writing stories for some of these popular characters. Many of them will be crap, but I think you'll see some writers getting comic writing gigs out of the stories they create for Kindle Worlds.

TREVOR
6/21/2013 04:34:07 pm

I love the idea of pros just writing fan fiction. Good point.

milkman (Ian)
6/22/2013 03:35:15 am

well played. You make a good point. My only counter to that is I don't think there is a lot of good comics out there. I may be alone in that, but I just haven't been down with a lot of them. Even my beloved Hellboy and BPRD. But there are some. Waid seems to kill it in what ever he does.


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