Definitely an odd, yet interesting close to a great week.

Brit pop sensation One Direction are riding high: their appearances on Ellen and The Today Show will more than likely help their sophomore album, Take Me Home hit the #1 spot on next week’s Billboard charts (rumor has it they’ve shipped nearly half-a-million copies; in related news, Christina Aguilera’s Lotus apparently didn’t even get out nearly a fifth of that).

But sometimes, fame has a downside and this time, they only have their fans to blame: a young girl’s fan fiction story of the group has netted her a book deal.

16-year-old Emily Baker originally wrote the internet tale of her being involved in a love triangle with two members of the band and now, her writing has gotten her published with Penguin Books.

More after the jump.

Penguin Books, in a statement, said they had been trying to break into the world’s “current obsession with boy bands” and senior fiction editor Lindsey Heaven had been browsing through an online forum for fan fiction related to the group, when she came across Baker’s story.

“We at Penguin Children’s are delighted to be publishing Loving the Band“, she stated. “Emily’s novel is fresh, romantic, current and completely taps into today’s pop culture. Her love of a certain boy band is heartfelt and her passion feeds into every bit of her writing.”

The names will be changed for copyright reasons (obviously) but will still follow the main basis from the original writing: “[a] typical girl-meets-boy love story, except it’s girl-meets-band. It’s about a girl who lives in Scotland and comes down to London to visit her best friend. When she gets there she bumps into a boy band and hangs out with them, and eventually she finds out two of them – Shaq and Reily – have fallen for her.”

Apparently, this is not the first time this has happened: the craze behind 50 Shades of Grey was originally a Twilight-based fan fiction story before it was picked up entitled Master of the Universe.

So that means Bella and Edward were Anastacia and Christian… yeah, that’s not odd at all.

Loving the Band gets released in eBook form in November of next year.

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