Thanks to the success of 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' a reimagined version of 'The Office' called 'Beautiful Bastard' will. Twilight fanfic is considered the most.

The Office, which reimagined the Edward Cullen-Bella Swan relationship as a steamy love/hate romance between a boss and his assistant, was one of the pioneers of the Twilight fanfic genre, generating more than two million downloads, before being taken offline by the author in 2009. Beautiful Bastard, a reworked version of The Office written by Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings under the pen name Christina Lauren, is scheduled for publication on Feb. A sequel, Beautiful Stranger, will be released on May 28, 2013.

Simon & Schuster’s Gallery imprint bought the rights to the story in a pre-emptive situation for what insiders describe as a “substantial” advance. The pair are represented by Holly Root of the Waxman Leavell Literary Agency. Beatiful Bastard is the first project to make the leap from fanfic directly to traditional publishing without an intermediary step. In the past year, similar Fifty Shades of Grey-like adult erotic/romance novels like Sylvain Reynaud's Gabriel's Inferno, have earned seven-figure advances as publishers try to replicate the unprecedented success of E.L. James’ erotic hit. Fifty Shades of Grey, the breakout erotic hit that has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, originally started as a Twilight-based fanfiction story titled 'Master of the Universe.” But its success online was preceded by The Office.

' The Office paved the way for Fifty Shades and a thousand other imitators. It turned fanfiction's 'porn without plot' into porn as plot, peopling Twilight's basic plot structure with sexually voracious, assertive and snarky adults,' says Anne Jamison, a professor at the University of Utah, who studies fanfic.

Beautiful Bastard tells the story of the whip-smart Chloe Mills, an intern at a company who is about to earn her MBA and embark on successful career, but finds her herself caught up in a steamy love/hate relationship with her “exacting, blunt inconsiderate” boss Bennett Ryan. Ucertify Guide For Oracle Exam 1z0-047 Pdf on this page. Dimensiones Culturales De Hofstede Pdf. The book is being pitched with the tag: “An ambitious intern. A perfectionist executive.

Flashtool For Xperia Neo V Mt11i Hard. And a whole lot of name calling. Discover the story that garnered over 2 million hits in under a year.” While the authors say the novel “stays to true to the original story,' only about “20 percent” of the original The Office story remains, as the pair have substantially reworked it for traditional publishing. The Office was originally written by Hobbs in 2009 and then taken offline the same year when the story’s instantaneous popularity felt “crazy” and “a bit overwhelming.” In 2010, Hobbs, a junior high counselor, teamed with fellow fanfic writer Billings, a neuroscientist, to pursue new writing projects together.