What's this 'band fiction' crap anyway?

In the 1960s, band fiction was passed privately among interested fans, often simply as some typewritten sheets of paper. By the early 1980s, band fiction was appearing in print—in the Duran Duran fanzine UMF, for instance. By the late 1990s, it had made its way to Internet mailing lists. Today, band fiction can be found all over the Internet: personal websites, website archives, live journals, Yahoo! Groups, message boards—everywhere.

Band fiction is both product and part of an ongoing conversation between (mainly female) fans of a band or style of music. It's not the result of our conversation; it's an extension of it, a place we go when the language of nonfiction is not maleable enough to convey our thoughts and ideas. Sex is often a topic of our conversation, but so are love, loss, hope, insecurity, frustration, joy, disappointment, ego, failure, success....

Those who write band fiction use their favorite bands to tell others what they think—not only what they think of the bands they're writing about but also what they think of themselves, their culture and their world.

Band fiction comes in all sorts of flavors--science fiction, horror, fantasy, erotica ("het"), gay erotica ("slash"), westerns...you name it! If you haven't read band fiction, give it a try! If you haven't written band fiction, we encourage you to give that a try, too. Visit the ibfwa.org's Useful Links section for sites that can help you get involved in the band fiction community as a reader or a writer.

If you find that band fiction is not your cup of tea...no biggie. I don't like mysteries; I have friends who won't have anything to do with horror. The world of fiction is vast; go find what you do enjoy.

Important:
Neither Rockfic Press nor the authors are associated with any of the bands or musicians mentioned in the books available from this site. Neither the bands nor the musicians endorse these books. These books have been published without the bands' and musicians' involvement or permission. Also: these books are entirely fictional and not meant to reflect the actual actions / feelings / associations / etc. of these bands and musicians, past or present. These books have been written solely for entertainment.

"Surely, the range of free expression would be meaningfully reduced if prominent persons in the present and recent past were forbidden topics for the imaginations of authors of fiction."