2013 January 6, Christina Wilder, “Why Pulled-to-Publish Fanfiction Does Not Work”, in The Book Lantern[1]:
There’s a new get-rich-quick scheme at play, and it’s called pulled to publish fanfiction.
2015, Katharine E. McCain, "Canon Vs. 'Fanon': Genre Devices In Contemporary Fanfiction", thesis submitted to Georgetown University, page 4:
[…] and, as I will argue in Chapter Five, these differ significantly from the pulled-to-publish (P2P) novels like After and Fifty Shades of Grey.
2016, Monica Flegel & Jenny Roth, "Writing a New Text: The Role of Cyberculture in Fanfiction Writers’ Transition to 'Legitimate' Publishing", Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 10, Issue 2, July 2016:
In answer to questions about fan policing of pulled-to-publish fanfiction, she notes: […]
2017, Kacey Whalen, "A Consumption of Gay Men: Navigating the Shifting Boundaries of M/M Romantic Readership", thesis submitted to DePaul University, page 10:
While not all or even most m/m romance novels are pulled-to-publish stories, the close connection between slash fiction and m/m romance allows us to see how each genre might inform each other as readers and authors begin to cross over.
