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It originated as a story on Wattpad where it won a Watty Award for "Most Popular Teen Fiction" in Wattpad's annual writing contest. [77] By 2012 it had amassed over 19 million reads on Wattpad and, in 2013, was published by Penguin Random House . [ 78 ]
Jonah Mae Panen Pacala also known by her pseudonym as Jonaxx, is a Filipino author, [1] born on 23 January 1991 and hailing from Cagayan de Oro, Philippines.She is currently the most followed Wattpad author worldwide with over 5 million followers [2] and is widely known as the "Wattpad Queen" and "Pop Fiction Queen". [3]
The term fan fiction has been used in print as early as 1938; in the earliest known citations, it refers to amateur-written science fiction, as opposed to "pro fiction". [3] [4] The term also appears in the 1944 Fancyclopedia, an encyclopaedia of fandom jargon, in which it is defined as "fiction about fans, or sometimes about pros, and occasionally bringing in some famous characters from ...
Todd's writing was initially inspired by the music and fandom of One Direction, and the singer Harry Styles is a model for the protagonist in her After series, Hardin Scott. [3] She started by writing stories on her phone with the Wattpad app in 2013, publishing a chapter almost daily for over a year.
Huang is the daughter of Chinese expats. As a child, Huang's mother encouraged her to write stories as a way to practice English as a second language. [5] Later, Huang wrote as a hobby and posted stories on Wattpad.
The author of an alternative universe story thus can use the same characters, but send them down different paths to achieve a completely different plot. AU stories are also sometimes used in official, though typically non-canonical, story lines, written by the creators of the original canon material.
For example, a news story about the New Kids on the Block can use the mark "New Kids on the Block" to identify the band. [20] Nominative fair use is often particularly relevant to fanfiction, since a fanfiction writer's use of trademarked names, settings, etc. to identify characters, story settings, etc. will generally meet the three ...
After is a 2014 young adult romance novel written by American author Anna Todd under her Wattpad name Imaginator1D and published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. After is the first installment of the After novel series. A film adaptation of the same name was released on April 12, 2019.