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[PWNN]

"Past the tacky waterbed, strobe light, and blacklight posters inside his "Room of Doom," he brings Anna, a naïve college student into his twisted world of, well, mostly naughty dialogue and light spanking"

First three chapters found here: http://www.evilreads.com/fifty-one-shades

[PWNN]

Double Crap I'm in the wrong forum. Sorry.
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[Nicole]

OMG that was hilarious!
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[Yulie]

The fans will chase after me with pitchforks, but this is hilarious. I especially loved the Kristen Stewart poster and the cartwheels, I can just picture it - like a gymnast sticking her landing!

This is real, right? It wasn't an April 1 prank?

[xina]

I saw this a few days ago. LOL...it is funny. So...the haters and head-on-a-platter bloggers. Will they want a lawsuit between Meyer and this guy too? And he will publish it!! Oh nos...
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[PWNN]

Very real. You can also download the first 3 chapters as an epub on Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/ebooks/download/13548945-fifty-one-shades

The interview at Romantic Times (for which he writes reviews) is pretty good and gives more background on the book. It's supposed to be published this summer. I first saw the deal listed at Publisher's Weekly.


http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/book-news/deals/article/51246-fifty-shades-of-grey-parody-makes-the-rounds--.html

What's the best way to celebrate a publishing phenomenon that began its life as fan fiction? With a literary parody, of course. On the heels of Vintage acquiring world rights to E.L. Grey's much-covered 50 Shades of Grey trilogy, and Universal snapping up film rights, a satirical take on the erotica series, called Fifty Shames of Earl Grey, is now circulating among book editors.

The comedic work, by author Andrew Shaffer (who is known to many in the publishing world for his alter ego on Twitter, @evilwylie), grew out of an experiment, of sorts. Shaffer, who has a reputation in the Twittersphere for refreshingly snarky comments about the book business, is also a reviewer of romance and erotica books. After he read about the excitement the book was generating among suburban women in The New York Post, Shaffer read the novel itself, which he described as the "Plan 9 From Outer Space of erotic romance." Amused by how bad the novel was, Shaffer started live-tweeting excerpts from the work, mocking its, er, literary merits.

Shaffer said he was drawn to 50 Shades of Grey for two reasons: the first was James’s backstory as someone who had become a self-published sensation in a seemingly short period of time. The second draw was the trashy element of the work itself. "I've read hundreds of professionally published romance novels," he said, “most of which were as good, or better, than Fifty Shades of Grey." That this book, which began as Twilight fan fiction, was the one to find crossover success, fueled his desire to do a satire.

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He’s also acutely aware of the meta nature of what he’s doing—writing a parody of a novel which, itself, is a variation on another novel—and he’s celebrating that fact. "I was upfront about my intentions to ‘sell out’—I posted that once I sold the book to a publisher I would change the characters' names to Edward and Bella and hide out from my fans in a McMansion in Beverly Hills. Of course, this all just parodies EL James' path to success, so maybe what I'm really doing is an extended piece of performance art?"
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[Yulie]

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[willaful]

I read the parody (it's hilarious) before started 50 Shades and now that book reads like a parody to me...
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