The new EL James book “Grey” shot to the top of Amazon’s best-seller list ahead of its June 18 release on the promise it will flip the perspective of her hard-sex “Fifty Shades” story from innocent Anastasia Steele to kinky Christian Grey. But her hordes of fans may not realize it’s not the first time James has explored her massively popular trilogy from Christian’s point of view. The new book, due out on Christian’s birthday, began like the previous three novels, as “Twilight” fan fiction using Stephenie Meyer’s original characters, hot vampire Edward Cullen and clumsy innocent Isabella Swan.James wrote about 50 pages as an “outtake” from Edward’s point of view for a fundraiser that benefited a charity in 2010 as she toiled in the FanFiction.net “Twilight” community of writers under the pen name Snowqueens Icedragon.
“Some material in the book is drawn from that previous work,” acknowledged Paul Bogaards, a spokesman for the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group that includes the “Fifty Shades” trilogy’s imprint, Vintage Books.
