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Cover of J&N: A Love Story.

Screencapture of Amazon.com listing of J&N: A Love Story.

J&N: A Love Story is a Twilight story written by Rachel Plotkin. It caused controversy in Twilight fandom when the author self-published the story and put it up for sale on Amazon.

[edit] Summary

According to the Amazon.com, product description:

An unexpected child's life with the werewolf who imprinted on her. Please note: This is an unofficial story based on the world created by Stephenie Meyer.[1]

[edit] Story History

At 110 pages in length, J&N: A Love Story is listed on Amazon.com as being published on May 28, 2009 by CreateSpace, a self-publishing company.[2] Rachel Plotkin's online blog states the publication date was May 18, 2009.[3]

On June 9, 2009, it appeared the book had been pulled from Amazon.com as links to the book listing no longer functioned. The author's YouTube video promoting it was also removed. [4]

[edit] Fandom Reactions

Amazon customer reviews of J&N: A Love Story, page 1.

Amazon customer reviews of J&N: A Love Story, page 2.

Screencapture of the author's website as of June 9, 2009.

Screencapture of the author's MySpace page as of June 9, 2009.

Fandom reacted with much of its typical negative response to fans attempting to sell fan-fiction for profit.[5] [6] The book and author were mocked on fandom_wank [7], but the post was deleted when it was discovered the author was apparently only 16 years old.[8]

Many apologies were written including the following from http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=141469&page=14

First off I want to apologize to all of you. This 'princess' (who is not 15 or 16 but my apparent youth may come in handy in my later years) did NOT and was not aware of the copyright rules at the time and making of my book. My single mother...is not a good influence and I was left alone to try and publish my book so I did not reaserch is properly...I would like to apologize to Stephenie Meyer (and I have written a formal letter to her publishers) asking for forgivness. I am truly sorry for making you...how shall I put this? Upset? Angry? Mad at my stupidity? Anyway, I am now completley focused on my own works and am working on querying (is that correct?) for agents. Again I am sorry. Thank you to those of you who do realize that it was a mistake and a large one at that but I retracted it AS SOON as I realized, so...I know that is a bad excuse, but it is all I have.

Best Always, Rachel