The fanfiction written on a notes app that's become a bestseller with a seven-figure film deal
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The fanfiction written on a notes app that's become a bestseller with a seven-figure film deal
"The thing is, the author behind the doorstopper dark fantasy novel, Alchemised, is no unknown debut: SenLinYu, 34, started off writing Harry Potter fanfiction that blew up online during the pandemic, racking up more than 20m downloads. Her Draco and Hermione (Dramione) fanfic, heavily inspired by The Handmaid's Tale, has now been rewritten with third-party IP necessarily removed and published traditionally as Alchemised."
"At the beginning of Alchemised, published last Tuesday, we meet Helena Marino, a prisoner of war held captive on the dilapidated estate of Kaine Ferron, a former classmate who is tasked with scouring her mind for lost memories. Set in a world of necromancy and alchemy, the three-part novel traces the twisty, obsessive relationship between the pair, while exploring war trauma and picking at the borders of good and evil."
"And its billing as dark fantasy is no understatement: Sen's website lists 12 content warnings, extending to human experimentation, medical torture, eugenics, cannibalism and necrophilia. I was never wanting to write a relationship that was supposed to be aspirational While Alchemised is often lumped in with romantasy in media coverage, Sen, who goes by they/them pronouns, has never really thought of it as a romantasy, or a romance. They don't read much romance,"
A viral Harry Potter fanfiction writer reworked a Dramione story into a 1,040-page dark fantasy novel, removing third-party IP and securing traditional publication and a lucrative film-rights deal. The book opens with Helena Marino, a prisoner of war, held on Kaine Ferron's dilapidated estate while he searches her mind for lost memories. The three-part narrative inhabits a world of necromancy and alchemy and follows a twisty, obsessive relationship that interrogates war trauma and moral ambiguity. The novel carries explicit content warnings for human experimentation, torture, eugenics, cannibalism and necrophilia and resists simple romance categorization.
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