Playing in Someone Else's Sandbox: Appendix

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Authors Opposed to Fan-Fiction

The following writers/owners have expressly prohibited fan-fiction for their original properties:

• Anne Rice


• Archie comics


• Dennis L. McKiernan


• Irene Radford


• J.R. Ward


• Laurell K. Hamilton


• Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb


• P.N. Elrod


• Raymond Feist


• Robin Hobb


• Robin McKinley


• Terry Goodkind¹

For this reason, many fan-fiction archives will not accept stories that have been derived from the works of these authors.

Popular Fan-Fiction Archives

Fanfiction exists for virtually every fandom, and new archives spring up and vanish regularly.

General archives that comprise multiple fandoms include:

• Archive Of Our Own


• Fanfiction.net


• Fanfiction Archive


• Fictionesque.com


• Ficwad


• Lunaescence Archives


• MyFandoms.com

To find a fandom-specific archive, Google is your best bet.

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¹ “Content Guidelines”, Fanfiction.net, accessed July 3, 2012.