P.N. Elrod

P.N. Elrod is an American novelist specializing in urban fantasy. 
Elrod was a filkwriter and frequent LoCer to zines, also to fanzine editor. She was part of the Quantum Leap and Blake's 7 where was treasurer for the fan club O*R*A*C.
She was Convention Guest of Honor Syndi-Con in 1997.
==Pro Works and Fan Club==
==Archives Which Ban Fanworks Based on Elrod's Work==
Elrod specifically requested that fanworks based on her pro books be banned at FanFiction.Net. Other archives followed these constraints. 
* .moon
* Wormhole Crossing
* Freedom of Speech Fan Fiction Archive
* The Archive at the End of the Universe
==Stated Reasons About Why Elrod is Against Fanfic==
P.N. Elrod wrote and published fanworks (mainly Blake's 7, some Quantum Leap) in the late 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s. In 1992, she forbade fans to write fanfic based on her own pro books. 
Elrod's Blake's 7 fanzines were still being sold in October 1995, as per an ad in Tarriel Cell, a Blake's 7 zine.
 
Some excerpted statements regarding the topic, see statements and quotes below for more context.
* She wrote fanfic a long time ago."... and when I did write it the most cool computer available was the TRS-80 from Radio Shack." – (2008) 
* She wrote fanfic before she understood copyright."As for fanfic, I don't write it--not since I learned about the copyright thing." – (2008) 
* She doesn't want fans to get in trouble with her lawyers, and she will personally alert these lawyers."I will, however, defend my own copyrighted work and will cheerfully rip the lungs out of anyone using any of MY characters in a fan story. Whatever is left gets tossed to the tender mercies of the Berkley Publishing Groups lawyers." -- from Open Letter to The Neutral Arbiter from Author P.N. Elrod (1993)
* She jokingly advocates violence against perpetrators."I PROMISE that I WILL positively rip the lungs out of anyone using MY VAMPIRE FILES characters in a fan story. The criminals (and copyright infringement is a criminal offense) will wish that Jaws/the Alien/the Predator had got to then first rather than me! If there's anything left after I'd done, the remains/will be locked in an elevator and forced to listen to Muzak while being consumed by starved, rabid, flesh-eating mega-scorpions." -- Open Letter to FYI from Author P.N. Elrod (1992)
* Literary fanworks are different than media fanworks, mostly because media companies are big and can afford it."Granted, it is crazy, but there IS a difference between a literary character and a media one. Mostly it's because media giants know that zines are too small to bother going after, but underpaid writers (like me) can't afford to be that generous." -- from Open Letter to The Neutral Arbiter from Author P.N. Elrod (1993)
* There were... ah... gaps."I'd written only one zine story back in the mid-1970s. I wrote no more until getting hooked on B7 and that was long after signing my contract with Ace." -- comment in The Neutral Arbiter #6 (September 1992)
==Elrod's Comments About Fanworks==
===1991 ===
Regarding Blake's 7 avatars, and the planning of a fourth Issue of Avon: On-Line: 
 
Fanzines as a place to learn and as a writing workshop:
===1992 ===
In June 1992, Elrod wrote about her attempt to write one of her own characters in "The Vampire Files" in a crossover with Quantum Leap, and how writing for zines made her a better writer: 
From a letter to The Neutral Arbiter printed in September 1992: 
====1992: Elrod's Open Letters====
Despite her fanac, Elrod was one of several pro authors who either brought the hammer down on or clarified their views on fanworks based on her books around the end of 1992. This was due to The Marion Zimmer Bradley Fanfiction Controversy. Some other authors who joined Elrod in 1992: Marion Zimmer Bradley, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Anne McCaffrey, and Mercedes Lackey.
From the September 1992 Open Letter to FYI from Author P.N. Elrod: 
The January 1993 (written, however, in 1992) Open Letter to The Neutral Arbiter from Author P.N. Elrod:
=== 1993 ===
=== 2006 ===
Elrod's post Fan fic - sí! Public Domain - sí-sí-sí!!!, see that page for some comments to it. 
 
From Elrod's website (likely 2006):
=== 2008 ===
[Elrod]: 
===2010 ===
==Zines That Elrod Published, Edited, Wrote For, Assisted With==
* three issues of Avon On-Line (plus one still planned as of January 1993) (edited, wrote fanworks for this Blake's 7 zine)
* Blake's Barf Bag (edited, wrote filks for this Blake's 7 zine)
* Good Guys Wear Fangs (wrote a [[Quantum Leap crossover using one of her original characters, Jack Fleming)
* The Machiavelli Factor (assisted in the second edition of this Blake's 7 zine)"... my next thanks are due to Pat Nussman and Pat Elrod who helped me trace Lillian Sheperd to obtain her permission to produce a new edition." – from the editorial in the 1996/98 edition of The Machiavelli Factor 
* got permission in 1991 to reprint The Quibell Abduction, a Blake's 7 zine, as a part of the fourth issue of Avon: On-Line, but that issue was never printed
* a 1970s zine story (fandom unknown, but this was likely Star Trek, perhaps Man from U.N.C.L.E."I'd written only one zine story back in the mid-1970s. I wrote no more until getting hooked on B7 and that was long after signing my contract with Ace." -- Elrod's comment in The Neutral Arbiter #6 (September 1992)
* Elrod utilized Blake's 7 avatars in her pro books.
==Fan Comments==
===Regarding Elrod's Original Fiction===
===Regarding Elrod's Fanfic===
=== Regarding Elrod's Views on Fanworks===
====1997====
====2006====
Excerpts from a September 2006 discussion at Fanthropology: 
====2012==== 
====2014====
====2017====
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Professional Authors
Category:Science Fiction Authors