For you it might be actually valuable not to spearate things. If you wrote lots of Potterporn it might be different, but a lot of your fanfic has the structure and complexity of a complete novel so it can give readers a fiarly good idea of your capoabilities. Also, given that some of your work is extremely well-known in the fan world, whereas you're just starting out as a published author, I think that at least at first the fanfic is more likely to draw people to Knife than the other way around - and once Knife makes a name for you your fans will be happy to find they can read more.
Another interesting example is Diane Duane; her "fanfic" is under her real name but it's actually published stuff, Star Trek novels. But it was because I'd once been blown away by one of those that far transcends the usual ST novel that I first picked up her Young Wizards book. Mike Ford is another one in this category; when he died last year, a lot of the writings about him mentioned his ST novels in as glowing terms as his independent work.
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Date: 2007-07-26 07:46 am (UTC)Another interesting example is Diane Duane; her "fanfic" is under her real name but it's actually published stuff, Star Trek novels. But it was because I'd once been blown away by one of those that far transcends the usual ST novel that I first picked up her Young Wizards book. Mike Ford is another one in this category; when he died last year, a lot of the writings about him mentioned his ST novels in as glowing terms as his independent work.