{"id":8542,"date":"2020-09-26T14:52:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T14:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=8542"},"modified":"2020-09-27T03:59:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T03:59:18","slug":"hidden-legacy-books-1-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/hidden-legacy-books-1-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Legacy: Books 1-5"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I first saw this series<\/a> announced, I pretty much immediately dismissed it as the authors<\/a> slumming with a stab at generic paranormal romance.<\/p>\n

Now having read it on whim I see I was right about that (at least for the the first 3-4 books). What I was not expecting however was that it’s also Kate Daniels<\/a> fanfiction. Who does that? What kind of author makes fanfiction of their own successful work and then tries to pass it off as a new work that required ‘belief’ to get it off the ground? Your editor “believed in the story”? No shit they did; you already wrote it years ago!<\/p>\n

The funniest thing about this is that’s not even the full extent of the reuse. It also splices in the setting from Kinsmen<\/a>… another of the authors’ series, albeit an apparently less successful one. The audacity of the entire project is just staggering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I first saw this series announced, I pretty much immediately dismissed it as the authors slumming with a stab at generic paranormal romance. Now having read it on whim I see I was right about that (at least for the the first 3-4 books). What I was not expecting however was that it’s also Kate Daniels fanfiction. Who does that? What kind of author makes fanfiction of their own successful work and then tries to pass it off as a new work that required ‘belief’ to get it off the ground? Your editor “believed in the story”? No shit they did; you already wrote it years ago! The funniest thing about this is that’s not even the full extent of the reuse. It also splices in the setting from Kinsmen… another of the authors’ series, albeit an apparently less successful one. The audacity of the entire project is just staggering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[480,20,29,30],"class_list":["post-8542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-hidden-legacy","tag-ilona-andrews","tag-paranormal-romance","tag-urban-fantasy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}