‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ by E. L. James

I love a bandwagon. So I jumped on Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James without hesitation.

There’s a few reasons people are getting in a tizz over this book and I’ve done my best to sum them up –

Firstly, FSoG started as fanfiction. Fanfiction is broadly defined as stories about characters or settings written by fans of an original piece of work. Works of fan fiction are rarely authorized by the original work’s author or publisher. They are also almost never published. Which is why the publishing world is getting their knickers in a twist over FSoG. Continue reading