Newby
Hi, I'm Bob Denton
I'm new to Reddit. I joined because, next month, I have a series of formal book launches.
One of these is a work of Fact Fiction. It reimagines Oliver Twist and The Tale of Two Cities, but sets them in today's society. I assure you that no woke-dom has been applied! The Victorian verbiage and settings are gone, but Dickens' superb plots and characterisations are celebrated.
However, Fan Fiction is a somewhat Marmite activity - so first may I ask what the group's general attitude is to fan fiction?
Displaced and Denounced presents a Dickens biog, then transports the two novels into modern times and settings:
Displaced: Olive - depicts Olive Turner, lost within today's social care system, she knows that she deserves and wants more. Travelling to London she is lured into a Mittel-European crime gang. A number of opposing forces clash, and set up a dramatic denouement.
Denounced: A Tale of Two Courts - reimagines 'Two Cities', but set in today’s London and Tehran. It follows an Irano‑British language teacher caught between two judicial systems and their two cultures. London’s post-industrial, multi-cultural cosmopolitanism and Tehran’s theocratic, revolutionary fervour. Can he survive both?
I would also like to understand better the culture of the group. What works? What works most effectively? And, what should be avoided as taboo?
Bob