Wow!!! I was just reading Colin and Michele’s blog and discovered this post about 23-year-old Chilean journalism student Francisca Solar whose fan fiction has just been published by Random House!!! How amazing. (Note to Tiana and Jandalf, my favourite fan fiction writers: you two should be next!!!) .
Here is the BBC report, and it includes the following comment:
The Decline of the High Elves became a massive online smash, generating 80,000 views and positive reviews from Harry Potter fans around the world.
The published version is titled “La Septima M”:
Here’s a youtube video of Francisca speaking about the journey she took from writing the fan fiction to publishing it: