centuryofsleep replied to your post“You ever download a free ebook preview and think “Wow, this reads like...”
Hee! Maybe it originally was, and the author wanted to make a buck on their porn?
I think it quite possibly was. Like I said, I'm tempted to spend the 99¢ to see if it's got other Glee characters in it (the main character could be a de-fandomed Blaine, I think, and someone that could easily be Quinn or Sue showed up). But it had so many punctuation errors, and the style was so short and choppy—and oh my god the clichéd characters and (beginning of the) plot.
That's kind of why I think it's a GKM fill, actually—it's so clichéd that it reads like a kink fill. I can pretty much picture the prompt even. Also it's badly edited enough that it has to have been relatively un-betaed, like many GKM fills—the author seems to have run spell-check over it, but doesn't seem to have found anyone who can make sure she has all her necessary commas, for example. When you're filling a prompt anonymously, that sort of thing happens fairly easily, particularly since LJ comments don't allow editing.
In fact I probably would buy the book, just to see if it outs itself as a fill, except that it's also offered in print, for a significant chunk of change. I have an issue with cheap ebooks being badly edited, but not too big of one—but I do have a big issue with someone asking quite a bit of money for something so poorly edited, even if it comes with the bonus of being on tree pulp.
