Actors Emma Watson (L) Maggie Smith (M) and Daniel Radcliffe (R) on the set of the film "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." Harry Potter is one of the most popular subjects of fanfiction. The ...

If you’ve ever read a fanfic, you know the high. (And if you’ve never read a fanfic, what are you doing with your life?) That unbelievable euphoria that ...

When Emma Kidwell started working on new content for Marvel’s Midnight Suns, she turned to her fanfic roots. She isn’t the only one following the rules of fan-written stories to develop fresh ideas.

What once was a steamy Reylo fan fiction has now found its place as a movie adaptation on Amazon with its premiere set to debut this September.

It’s been a month since Netflix’s K-Pop Demon Hunters took the internet by storm, thrusting us into a world of, well, demon-hunting K-Pop music. The fever is not subsiding; at the time of writing, the ...

It’s widely accepted conventional wisdom that when it comes to creative works—TV shows, films, music, books—consumers crave an optimal balance between novelty and familiarity. What we choose to ...

Of the 12.5 million works currently hosted on the fan fiction hub Archive of Our Own, SenLinYu’s Manacled ranks as the second-most-read on the entire site—but you won’t be able to read it there for ...

Everyone who reads both books and fanfiction knows there’s a clear difference in reading speed. While a 500 page book might take a week to get through, reading at “fanfiction speed” can allow a reader ...

“I’m a person who prefers to underpromise and then, hopefully, overdeliver,” author SenLinYu tells me on a sunny June afternoon. Seven years ago, when Sen was a stay-at-home parent composing a ...

Party games are one of the go-to gaming options when it comes to groups of friends looking to play together — especially during the last year of the COVID-19 pandemic. From titles like Super Mario ...

In a major coup for the fanfic-to-film pipeline, SenLinYu’s Alchemised has landed a seven-figure adaptation deal, per The Hollywood Reporter. The book, set for publication September 23, began its life ...