In this Bite-Sized fandom special, the Not Another Teen Wolf Podcast team interviews Riana Elliott, the winner of Teen Wolf’s official fanfiction competition.

– Natalie and Donya introduce the interview, which took place the same weekend as New York Comic Con.
– Courtney talks about the variety of competitions and fan involvement offered from the Teen Wolf camp.
– We introduce Riana!
– She tells us about both her reactions to discovering the contest, and to finding out she won.
– We talk about her history with fandom and writing fic, as well as the inspiration for her prize-winning Teen Wolf fanfiction, “Side Effects.” (There are a few trigger warnings surrounding the subject of the fic.)
– Riana tells us about her future career ambitions – it’s a pretty interesting mix of ideas!
– We hear all about her prize – a trip to LA to meet Jeff Davis and the Teen Wolf writers.
– After there were issues at the office building where Jeff works, he invited Riana over to his house. No big deal. Whatever.
– She shares advice from the writing team for those interested in that industry.
– She also got to hang out with the make-up team and get some special effects make-up applied.
– She had a meeting with Holland and a non-meeting with Dylan.
– She tells us about the best thing she took away from the experience – and it wasn’t a bust of Tyler Posey’s head.
– Many lols were had over the idea of Riana trolling the fandom of the show she eventually wants to write.
– We get a brutally honest look at some of the bad aspects of fandom behaviour that this scenario unfortunately inspired.
– More pleasantly, cake.
– Continuing our new Non Sequitur question, Natalie makes the mistake of asking Donya about Downton Abbey. Donya then makes the mistake of asking Natalie about One Direction.
– Seriously, if you don’t want to hear us rambling about these topics for upwards of 15 minutes, just turn this off after the interview officially ends.
– Seriously.

If you’d like to reach Riana, you can do so here: Twitter / Tumblr
You can read “Side Effects” here.
You can also watch the videos MTV released about Riana’s prize trip here and here.

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