It’s like arguing over which member of One Direction is the hottest. The selling point of this book, therefore, can be summed up as follows: “We are proud to announce that we violated Bella Swan and Edward Cullen for money, but that tart EL James beat us to the punch, and now we want you to know that she copied us and we did it first!” Oh, and there are quotes from fellow “I sold my fanfiction too after changing all the names” writing buddies and gushing praises from Robert Pattinson groupies. To stave off the inevitable “ EL James copied Stephanie Meyer first!” comparisons, there is a blurb in this book from Anne Jamison from the University of Utah, which claims that The Office was actually the fanfiction and EL James is just an imitator of these ladies. You may have read that press release where these ladies were actually proud to announce that Beautiful Bastard is actually a shaved Twilight fanfiction previously called The Office. Christina Lauren is actually the pseudonym for the writing team of Lauren Billings Luhrs and Christina Hobbs Venstra.
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