Handbook for Mortals is an indie-published fantasy novel that appeared out of nowhere, reaching the top of the New York Times YA bestseller list before being revealed as a scam. Someone had placed ...

This article originally appeared in Vulture. Like Stonehenge or the works of Shakespeare, we’ll probably never know who was behind “My Immortal”—the massive Harry Potter–inspired text that is widely ...

The Harry Potter fandom has long been one of the biggest doorways into writing fanfiction. And while I missed out on the internet's proclivity for fanfic completely (I have never read or written any ...

If you avoid certain areas of the internet and didn’t catch the long-form Vulture article on the subject two years ago, then you probably have never heard of the Harry Potter fanfiction My Immortal.

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Aja Romano wrote about pop culture, media, and ethics. Before joining Vox in 2016, they were a staff reporter at the Daily Dot. A 2019 fellow of the National Critics Institute, they’re considered an ...