at Readercon this weekend went to a fanfic panel -- fabulous! Four were writers -- in both fanfic and traditional publishing formats so that they could legitimately comment and one was an academic and great fanfic reader. Her name is Erin Kissane -- might hunt her up on this topic. Also a panel on writing from other languages and one from other cultures. diane could give you background -- I'm being nuts trying to put together and service for the Gulf Oil spill.