pulled-to-publish

English

Verb

pulled-to-publish

1. simple past and past participle of pull-to-publish

Adjective

pulled-to-publish (not comparable)

1. (of a work of fiction) Previously published as fan fiction before being commercially released.
   • 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 July, Monica Flegel, Jenny Roth, “Writing a New Text: The Role of Cyberculture in Fanfiction Writers’ Transition to 'Legitimate' Publishing”, in Contemporary Women's Writing, volume 10, number 2:

     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.

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