![]() Her fic is an example of alternate universe fanfiction, that change one or more elements of the source work's canon. “I set out to rewrite their honeymoon and have it be this super fun, smutty sloppy thing,” Billings says. “He bruises she’s pregnant with his demon baby that kills her, and I felt a little bit betrayed by it because I expected her to take care of Edward.” Her friends encouraged her to turn her frustration into fanfiction she wrote a million words of fic that year. “I enjoyed the books more than I expected to, but when I got to Breaking Dawn, I felt like Stephenie Meyer had…created this hero of Edward that you’re rooting for, and then just had all of his fears come to fruition,” Billings, 42, explains. Like most fanfiction authors, Hobbs and Billings were motivated to write out of love and dissatisfaction. Their latest book and first standalone novel, Dating You/Hating You, hits bookstores on June 6. ![]() According to Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Christina Lauren have approximately 2.5 million books (print and digital) in circulation. ![]() Nearly nine years after Hobbs published her fanfiction The Office, which she rewrote with Billings, the duo now has 20 books and 14 consecutive New York Times bestsellers under their belt. ![]()
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