eating cucumbers without permission...

John Lydgate is the worst medieval offender that I can think of off the top of my head. For the prologue to his Siege of Thebes, he wrote himself into Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

And so while the pilgrims were
At Canterbury, well lodged one and all,
I don't know what to call it,
Luck or Fortune -- in the end
That led me to enter into that town

John Lydgate is the worst medieval offender that I can think of off the top of my head. For the prologue to his Siege of Thebes, he wrote himself into Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

And so while the pilgrims were
At Canterbury, well lodged one and all,
I don't know what to call it,
Luck or Fortune -- in the end
That led me to enter into that town

First time I've ever heard of an established author doing something like this.

First time I've ever heard of an established author doing something like this.

Searchable index to fan art/fiction around the Web. Really great feature-set, but I wonder how easily it's going to scale.

Searchable index to fan art/fiction around the Web. Really great feature-set, but I wonder how easily it's going to scale.

Copyright concerns the right to control duplication of both exact original expression and derivative works based on previously existing exact original expression. It does not involve "ideas" per se. ...

Copyright concerns the right to control duplication of both exact original expression and derivative works based on previously existing exact original expression. It does not involve "ideas" per se. ...

Henry Jenkins has the best summary; the short is that the founders made a terrible mistake by trying to establish a business based on exploiting a demographic they don't understand.

Henry Jenkins has the best summary; the short is that the founders made a terrible mistake by trying to establish a business based on exploiting a demographic they don't understand.

Getting students to insert themselves into the stories they're reading:

In the winter, our characters go visiting: each girl chooses a climactic moment from a favorite novel and writes herself into the story, in the third person, as one of the main characters. Neil Gaiman's Coraline becomes Coraline and Caroline, in which twin sisters face off together against the "other mother"; the feral cat clans of Erin Hunter's Warrior series flourish under the leadership of newcomer Snowfur, known in real life as Camille. (Student: "Should the same things still happen in the story?" Me: "I don't know -- will they be the same with you there?")

Getting students to insert themselves into the stories they're reading:

In the winter, our characters go visiting: each girl chooses a climactic moment from a favorite novel and writes herself into the story, in the third person, as one of the main characters. Neil Gaiman's Coraline becomes Coraline and Caroline, in which twin sisters face off together against the "other mother"; the feral cat clans of Erin Hunter's Warrior series flourish under the leadership of newcomer Snowfur, known in real life as Camille. (Student: "Should the same things still happen in the story?" Me: "I don't know -- will they be the same with you there?")

Nonjon's excellent Firefly/Harry Potter crossover is now complete (~300,000 words).

Nonjon's excellent Firefly/Harry Potter crossover is now complete (~300,000 words).