Children’s Book and Trouble with Elle Fanning

Hello to all book enthusiasts!

I want to share an unusual story and perhaps you can provide some good advice. My acquaintance, a children’s book author, decided to create a website for her new book from web-developers. This is her second book, and she is currently working on illustrations for it. After some time, the developers called and said there was a good domain for her website, and she needed to confirm the purchase. She confirmed the purchase (I should mention that, being a girl, she isn’t particularly savvy with websites), and a little later, it turned out that this domain belonged to a movie in which Elle Fanning starred and was likely stolen or used by bad people.

Since children’s movies with Elle Fanning are part of her inspiration, she paid for the restoration of this website and decided to keep it for the fans.

The problem is that she spent all the money she had planned to allocate for publishing the book. Now the website for Elle Fanning’s movie is up and running, and it is not threatened by bad actors, but the children’s book remains on the table and will not be published. And it’s very sad because it’s a good book…

Now it seems there are several solutions to the problem: contacting Elle Fanning or someone from her team (has anyone tried this?), reaching out to the fans of the movie and Elle for support (is there an official fan club for her?).

Ideally, the solution seems to be the following: 1. The website gets to Elle Fanning or her team. 2. The book goes into print, and financing is secured. In the second matter, crowdfunding or something similar might be a possible solution, but this is a new and unexplored question.

We need good advice and assistance with this matter.

by Kushnir_RA