Tumblr crosspost (19 September 2019)

[anghraine]

An anon on Tumblr said:

is there any (professionally, like someone was paid for it) published P&P fanfic that, if not fully meeting your standards for excellence, is worth reading?

I replied:

I’m not the best person to ask, I’m afraid. I’ve only ever read a few (apart from ones that were initially posted as fic and then published later on). Pro fic tends to have a very different flavour than fandom-fanfic and I don’t much care for it.

Part of my issue is that I’m pretty laser-focused on Darcy/Elizabeth, so books about Caroline or whatever are not at all appealing, while I’m also super picky about AUs, esp when they’re professionally published. So there’s not much that catches my interest. Mostly I just re-read the handful I like on AO3.

Comments

[swingandswirl]

Have you read Sophie Turner's A Constant Love? It's a sequel, and one of my favourite P&P fics ever. There are sequels, too, and they're nearly as good.

[anghraine]

I haven't, as far as I recall. I thought it was recommended to me when(if?) it was posted online and I didn't care for what I read of it, but I could be confusing it with something else.