Literary agents soon took notice of the book's rising online popularity. "I will rewrite this thing, and create these iconic characters, Christian and Ana."Ĭhristian Grey and Anastasia Steele, the two protagonists of "Fifty Shades," are basically Edward Cullen and Bella Swan of "Twilight."Ī screenshot of the link to the first chapter of 'Masters of the Universe,' a fan fiction erotica book about an average girl named Bella Swan meeting the wealthy, handsome Edward Cullen. I’ve got a couple unpublished novels here," James' agent told the LA Times. " She took it down and thought, I’d always wanted to write. Many readers deemed James' stories too provocative for, however, and she was forced to remove some of them from the site. "It was one of tens of thousands, really hundreds of thousands, of stories written by this vast community of women who were inspired to write and share stories by 'Twilight ,'" Anne Jamison, author of "Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World," told CBC News. she just kind of flipped this switch in my head." Shortly after reading the books, James says she sat down and decided to write a book of her own. “We see new readers coming to the books every day, and the sales, two years after our initial publication, remain strong and steady."I just sat on my sofa and just read them and read them and read them," James told ABC back in 2012, referring to the books in the "Twilight" series. “The Fifty Shades trilogy struck a chord around the world that continues to resonate,” said Anne Messitte, publisher of Vintage/Anchor Books in the U.S., in a statement. Vancouver-based filming for the movie just wrapped last week, according to tweets from James and others associated with the project. The movie version, starring Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan, is scheduled for release on Valentine’s Day weekend 2015. The series has been translated into 51 different languages, including Hebrew, Thai, Icelandic and Mongolian. Sales have topped 1 million in France, Germany, Spain, Brazil and the Netherlands. and an additional 27 million copies in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth countries. By the end of 2012, sales had risen to between 65 million and 70 million copies.Īll told, the three books have sold 45 million copies in the U.S. Sales hit 10 million about six weeks later. The first book, Fifty Shades of Grey, was released in March 2012 (based on a self-published piece of Twilight fan fiction).
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