"An album of songs selected by E. L. James was released on 11 September 2012 by EMI Classics under the title ""Fifty Shades of Grey: The Classical Album"", and reached number four on the US ""Billboard"" classical music albums chart in October 2012. A ""Seattle P-I"" reviewer favourably wrote that the album would appeal both to fans of the series and to ""those who have no intention of reading any of the Grey Shades"". The ""Fifty Shades of Grey"" trilogy has inspired many parodies in print, in film, online, and on stage. In November 2012, Universal Studios attempted to prevent"
"E. L. James Erika Leonard (née Mitchell; born 7 March 1963), known by her pen name E. L. James, is an English author. She wrote the bestselling erotic romance trilogy ""Fifty Shades of Grey"", ""Fifty Shades Darker"", and ""Fifty Shades Freed"", along with the companion novels """" and """"; and under the name Snowqueen's Icedragon the Twilight fan fiction ""Master of the Universe"" that was the basis for the Fifty Shades trilogy. The combined novels have sold over 125 million copies worldwide, over 35 million copies in the United States and set the record in the United Kingdom as the"
"company Stampin’ Up! UK and the cards were auctioned on eBay during May 2014. E. L. James Erika Leonard (née Mitchell; born 7 March 1963), known by her pen name E. L. James, is an English author. She wrote the bestselling erotic romance trilogy ""Fifty Shades of Grey"", ""Fifty Shades Darker"", and ""Fifty Shades Freed"", along with the companion novels """" and """"; and under the name Snowqueen's Icedragon the Twilight fan fiction ""Master of the Universe"" that was the basis for the Fifty Shades trilogy. The combined novels have sold over 125 million copies worldwide, over 35 million copies"
"list of the highest-earning authors with earnings of $95m which included $5m for the film rights to ""Fifty Shades of Grey"". On 1 June 2015 James announced the upcoming release of ""Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian"", which was released into stores on 18 June 2015. ""Darker: Fifty Shades Darker as Told by Christian"" was released November 28, 2017. James was one of the British celebrities, including Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch and Rachel Riley, to design and sign her own card for the UK children's charity Thomas Coram Foundation for Children. The campaign was launched by crafting"
"of films debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List. Released on June 28, 2016, this Ghosts from Our Past is a tie-in book to Ghostbusters (2016). Shaffer is listed as a co-author even though the other two authors, Erin Gilbert and Abby L. Yates, are the fictional characters in the Ghostbusters film. Andrew Shaffer Andrew Shaffer (born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States.) is an American author. Under the pen name ""Fanny Merkin,"" he authored the ""Fifty Shades of Grey"" parody ""Fifty Shames of Earl Grey."" His other books include ""Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love"", and ""Literary Rogues:"
"a ring and Ana accepts. Outside the Greys' mansion, Jack Hyde secretly watches the party; he is the one who sabotaged Christian's helicopter and he has sworn revenge. The novel reached No. 2 on the ""USA Today"" best seller list and is considered by ""The Guardian"" to be No. 11 on the Top 100 Bestselling Books of All Time in the United Kingdom. In March 2014, the producer for the eponymous film adaptation of ""Fifty Shades of Grey"", Dana Brunetti, had said there were, as of then, no solid plans to make a sequel. That film was released on 13"
"principal characters renamed Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele and removed it from her website before publication. Meyer commented on the series, saying ""that's really not my genre, not my thing... Good on her—she's doing well. That's great!"" This reworked and extended version of ""Master of the Universe"" was split into three parts. The first, titled ""Fifty Shades of Grey"", was released as an e-book and a print on demand paperback in May 2011 by The Writers' Coffee Shop, a virtual publisher based in Australia. The second volume, ""Fifty Shades Darker"", was released in September 2011; and the third, ""Fifty Shades"
"around the world, of which around 300,000 in Italy, with the aim of supporting the process of growth in digital for books. In 2012 Mondadori publishes Fifty Shades of Grey, the first volume of the erotic trilogy by debut London author E L James, rapidly followed by the two other titles, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. The trilogy sees in Italy the same kind of unprecedented success it gained in the English-language world: with more than 3.3 million copies sold in Italy and 130,000 downloads of the electronic version, the three volumes reach first, third and fourth position"
"Andrew Shaffer Andrew Shaffer (born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States.) is an American author. Under the pen name ""Fanny Merkin,"" he authored the ""Fifty Shades of Grey"" parody ""Fifty Shames of Earl Grey."" His other books include ""Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love"", and ""Literary Rogues: A Scandalous History of Wayward Authors"". He is the founder and creative director of Order of St. Nick, a greeting card company. He resides in Portland, Oregon. Shaffer attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop for a summer semester and studied comedy writing at Chicago's The Second City. He reviews books for RT Book Reviews,"
"process of writing another book in the ""Fifty Shades"" series due to popular demand from her fanbase. Later that same day she posted an image on her Instagram account that confirmed that the novel would be titled ""Grey"", that it would be told from the perspective of Christian Grey, and that she had deliberately chosen its publication date in order to coincide with Grey's birthday. Pre-order sales for ""Grey"" have been extremely strong, which led many retailers to order large quantities of the book in order to meet release day demand. An editor for ""The Bookseller"" also commented that ""Grey"""
"warnings regarding their content"". In February 2015, the Malaysian Home Ministry banned the ""Fifty Shades of Grey"" books shortly after banning its film adaptation after permitting them for three years in local bookstores, citing morality-related reasons. A film adaptation of the book was produced by Focus Features, Michael De Luca Productions, and Trigger Street Productions, with Universal Pictures and Focus Features securing the rights to the trilogy in March 2012. Universal is also the film's distributor. Charlie Hunnam was originally cast in the role of Christian Grey alongside Dakota Johnson in the role of Anastasia Steele, but Hunnam gave up"
"Darker"" and ""Fifty Shades Freed"", released in 2017 and 2018 respectively. 21-year-old Anastasia ""Ana"" Steele is an English literature major at Washington State University’s satellite campus near Vancouver, Washington. When her roommate, Kate Kavanagh, becomes ill and is unable to interview Christian Grey, a 27-year-old billionaire entrepreneur, for the college newspaper, Ana agrees to go in her place. At Christian's Seattle headquarters called Grey House, Ana stumbles her way through the meeting. Christian, who is that year's WSU commencement speaker, takes an interest in her; soon after, he visits the hardware store where Ana works. He agrees to Ana's request"
"classical precepts. Such criteria, however, waned with the rise of modernism and later postmodernism. There is no correlation between literary merit and product sales. The erotic romance ""Fifty Shades of Grey"" has sold over 125 million copies worldwide despite being poorly written according to literary critics. In comparison, John Steinbeck's ""The Grapes of Wrath"" has been critically acclaimed for its symbolism, plot, and character development, and has sold only approximately 14 million copies. At the trial of James Joyce's novel ""Ulysses"" in 1921, though not required to do so by law, Quinn the lawyer for the defence decided to produce"
"fastest selling paperback of all time. In 2012, ""Time"" magazine named her one of ""The World's 100 Most Influential People."" The novels were subsequently adapted into the films ""Fifty Shades of Grey"", ""Fifty Shades Darker"", and ""Fifty Shades Freed"". Erika Mitchell was born on 7 March 1963 in Willesden, Middlesex to a Chilean mother and a Scottish father who was a BBC cameraman. She was brought up in Buckinghamshire. James was educated at the independent Pipers Corner School and at Wycombe High School, a state grammar school for girls in the town of High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, followed by the"
"list of bestselling children's books in April 2009. Subsequent novels in the series include ""Hourglass"" and ""Afterlife"", which were published in 2010 and 2011, respectively, and the spinoff ""Balthazar"", which was published in 2012. According to her website, Gray lives in a 100-year-old purple house in New Orleans. Claudia Gray Claudia Gray is the pseudonym of Amy Vincent, an American writer of paranormal romance young adult fiction, best known for the ""Evernight"" series and her Star Wars novels, """", """", ""Leia, Princess of Alderaan"" and Star Wars: Master and Aprentice. Gray's novel, ""Evernight"", was published in May 2008 by HarperCollins."
"and the ability to review the stories directly on the site, became popular quite quickly. One popular example of modern fan fiction is E. L. James' ""Fifty Shades of Grey"". This series was originally written as fan fiction for the ""Twilight"" series of books and movies and played off the characters of Bella and Edward. In order to not infringe on copyright issues, James changed the character names to Anna and Christian for the purposes of her novels, which is a practice known as 'pulling-to-publish'. Anna Todd's 2013 fan fiction ""After"" about the English boy band One Direction secured a"
"book to be reasonably priced. The book sold well. Preorders took the book to the top spot on Amazon.com's U.S. sales charts, moving ""Fifty Shades of Grey"" out of the top position. It reached the No. 1 position on Amazon.com's bestselling books list in August 2012 and January 2013. It spent three months in the top 100 books. It topped ""The New York Times"" Best Seller list in the ""Hardcover Advice & Misc."" category. and began at No. 1 on Publishers Weekly's Hardcover Nonfiction charts. It topped the Sunday Times bestseller list on 3 February and 17 February 2013. Publishers"
"line drawing of a naked man, which happened to be Simove. Simove apologised to the woman involved for the ‘unfortunate factory mix up’. In 2012, Simove launched 'Fifty Shades of Gray' a book containing totally blank pages in fifty different shades of grey. The back jacket of the book described the content inside as 'getting darker and darker as the book goes on'. Random House, publisher of E. L. James's 'Fifty Shades of Grey', sent him a cease and desist letter and Simove was no longer able to sell this title, although a publisher from the Netherlands approached Simove to"
"The Fiona Fitzgerald novels are in development to be adapted for a television series. Grey Eagle Films is an independent film production company developing the literary properties of Warren Adler. Grey Eagle Films has exclusive rights to all 53 Adler novels and 100 plus short stories with eleven projects in development: seven films and four television series. Jonathan R. Adler is the CEO and Michael Adler is the Head of Creative Development. Warren Adler Warren Adler (born December 16, 1927) is an American author, playwright and poet. His novel ""The War of the Roses"" was turned into a dark comedy"
"services to literature and philanthropy. J. K. Rowling Joanne Rowling , ( ""rolling""; born 31 July 1965), writing under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, philanthropist, film producer, television producer and screenwriter, best known for writing the ""Harry Potter"" fantasy series. The books have won multiple awards, and sold more than 500 million copies, becoming the best-selling book series in history. They have also been the basis for a film series, over which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts and was a producer on the final films in the series. Born in"
"utter psychopath."" In the US, ""The Washington Post"" also found little of the original series in the rewrite: ""Where Ana had bizarre quirks, a perplexing ""inner goddess"" who was an Olympic-caliber backflipper, and a general sense of naive wonder that lightened ""Fifty Shades"" and reminded readers not to take the story too seriously, there is none of that here. ""Grey"" is dark and unrelenting and far too serious, like Mr. Grey."" Fan reception for ""Grey"" has been positive and the book sold over 1 million copies in its first week of release. Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by"
"the UK the novel sold over two million copies. Sam Taylor-Johnson, the director of the film adaptation of the first installment of the book series, ""Fifty Shades of Grey"", confirmed on 6 February 2015 that both ""Fifty Shades Freed"" and the second book in the trilogy, ""Fifty Shades Darker"", will also be adapted for film. The film was released on 9 February 2018. In November 2015, Universal Studios announced that both films will be shot back-to-back with principal photography scheduled to commence in early 2016. Fifty Shades Freed Fifty Shades Freed is the third and final installment of the erotic"
"Stephenie Meyer Stephenie Meyer (née Morgan; ; born December 24, 1973) is an American novelist and film producer, best known for her vampire romance series ""Twilight"". The ""Twilight"" novels have gained worldwide recognition and sold over 100 million copies, with translations into 37 different languages. Meyer was the bestselling author of 2008 and 2009 in America, having sold over 29 million books in 2008, and 26.5 million books in 2009. ""Twilight"" was the best-selling book of 2008 in US bookstores. Meyer was ranked No. 49 on ""Time"" magazine's list of the ""100 Most Influential People in 2008"", and was included"
"The values of the Victorian era perpetuated purity and innocence. So this book offered a new perspective. In recent years, erotica has become the new norm, and is extremely popular. The most recent commercial success was ""Fifty Shades Of Grey"", describing in detail scenes of sadomasochism and other forms of kink. It sold over ""31 million worldwide"", and has been adapted into a film starring Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan. Magazines often portray sex in a very indirect way. As seen in advertisements throughout, sex is portrayed without anyone needing to say a word. However, in a lot of ways,"
"O’Malley’s book, ""The Rook"". The show will be shown on Hulu and a yet to be announced UK channel. In July 2016, it was announced that she had written an adult action thriller titled ""The Chemist"", about ""an ex-agent on the run from her former employers"". The book was released on November 8, 2016. Stephenie Meyer Stephenie Meyer (née Morgan; ; born December 24, 1973) is an American novelist and film producer, best known for her vampire romance series ""Twilight"". The ""Twilight"" novels have gained worldwide recognition and sold over 100 million copies, with translations into 37 different languages. Meyer"
"""Fifty Shades Freed"" (2018) began on February 9, 2016, in Paris and Vancouver. It was released in the United States on February 10, 2017. The film grossed $381 million worldwide against its $55 million budget, but received negative reviews for its screenplay, acting and narrative, though Dakota Johnson's performance received some praise. At the 38th Golden Raspberry Awards, the film received nine nominations; including Worst Picture, Worst Actor (Dornan) and Worst Actress (Johnson), and won two for Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel, and Worst Supporting Actress (Basinger). After Anastasia Steele leaves Christian Grey, he has nightmares about his abusive"
"heaped upon it by a number of notable authors including Fay Weldon and Joanne Harris. Fay Weldon, author of over 30 novels, wrote: ""I read Glass Geishas in one sitting, with a break for sleep. ""This does not usually happen. It's a terrific read."" Quinn then wrote the ""Ivy Lessons"", a Fifty Shades of Grey -inspired romance about a teacher and a student. The Ivy Lessons, was rejected by Quinn’s publisher. She consequently self-published the series through Amazon KDP and went on to sell over half a million copies worldwide, becoming a bestseller in the USA, UK and Germany. After"
"won a Marketing Week ""Engage Award"" in the ""Gaming and Entertainment"" section. Ashen released the book ""Fifty-Thousand Shades of Grey"" on 23 September 2012; it parodies the erotic novel ""Fifty Shades of Grey"". The title is literal, as the book simply consists of the phrase ""Shades of Grey"" repeated 50,000 times. In 2013, Ashen, along with Emma Blackery, Dan Howell (Daniel Howell) and Phil Lester (AmazingPhil), starred as a contestant in a re-make of the 1980s TV show ""Knightmare"" during the YouTube Geek Week event. , Ashen has produced over 710 videos, has over 1.3 million subscribers to his primary"
"copies worldwide by June 2015. It has been translated into 52 languages, and set a record in the United Kingdom as the fastest-selling paperback of all time. Critical reception of the book, however, has tended towards the negative, with the quality of its prose generally seen as poor. Universal Pictures and Focus Features produced a film adaptation, which was released on 13 February 2015 and also received generally unfavourable reviews. The second and third volumes of the trilogy, ""Fifty Shades Darker"" and ""Fifty Shades Freed"", were published in 2012. """", a version of ""Fifty Shades of Grey"" being told from"
"Shades of Grey Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron (2012, simply titled Shades of Grey originally) is a dystopian novel, the first in the ""Shades of Grey"" series by novelist Jasper Fforde. The story takes place in Chromatacia, an alternate version of the United Kingdom wherein social class is determined by one's ability to perceive colour. Chromatacia is a future dystopian society that exists at least five hundred years (although possibly more) after the collapse of our own society, identified as 'the Previous'. All life is governed by the laws set by Munsell, the supposed and revered founder"
"series. The ""Fifty Shades"" trilogy was developed from a ""Twilight"" fan fiction originally titled ""Master of the Universe"" and published episodically on fan-fiction websites under the pen name ""Snowqueen's Icedragon"". The piece featured characters named after Stephenie Meyer's characters in ""Twilight"", Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. As an example of changing views on the subject, author Orson Scott Card (best known for the ""Enders Game"" series) once stated on his website, ""to write fiction using my characters is morally identical to moving into my house without invitation and throwing out my family."" He changed his mind completely and since has"
"would rather not know this stuff. I'd rather do it because it's true and because I accidentally wind up creating something that falls into this pattern than be told what the pattern is."" Neil Gaiman Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (; born Neil Richard Gaiman, 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series ""The Sandman"" and novels ""Stardust"", ""American Gods"", ""Coraline"", and ""The Graveyard Book"". He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery"
"the Shades of Magic series; and a ""Blade Runner""-inspired book called ""Black Tabs"". V. E. Schwab Victoria Elizabeth (V. E.) Schwab (born July 7, 1987) is an American fantasy author best known for her 2013 novel ""Vicious"", the ""Shades of Magic"" series, and for her children's and young adult fiction published under the name Victoria Schwab. ""The Guardian"" called ""Vicious"" ""a brilliant exploration of the superhero mythos and a riveting revenge thriller."" It received a starred review from ""Publishers Weekly"", which also named the novel one of its best books of 2013 for SF/Fantasy/Horror. The American Library Association's Reference and"