Whats the policy on Star Trek / Star Wars / fan-fiction material?
Well… it’s not strictly prohibited, but here are the issues. One, it’s technically illegal — copyright law gives ownership of “derivative” work to the copyright holder (thus Paramount, Lucasfilm, Asimov’s estate for Foundation stories, etc.). Two, this makes it nearly impossible to sell, except for rare opportunities like the Strange New World open anthology for Trek fiction, or pitching novel ideas to Lucasfilm, and so on (highly unlikely, as I said). But because it’s not utterly impossible, it’s okay to send through the group, but I would urge anyone doing so to note what they anticipate their market being. Targetting fan-fiction sites is definitely out. Critters is for professional and professionally aspiring writers, and aiming at fan-fic sites isn’t the way to get there. (Some pros have done fan-fic way back when, become pro, then become more or less embarrassed that their fan-fic exists, pops up on the web, etc.) So saying you’re writing fan-fic for its own sake will likely ge
