Yup. The books had been lauded to me because I'm "into Celtic stuff". It was actually about 2 and a half pages, as I recall -- by then, I knew that she had never been to either Scotland or Ireland, and also that she didn't know the difference between them. At that point I bailed, guessing that the rest of the book would be so full of similar howlers that I wouldn't be able to read it without cringing. I never reached the sadistic torture and graphic rape scenes. Just lucky, I guess.

I understand that, at the time she wrote the first one, she had never visited Scotland; and supposedly she's done so by now. Well, I've never been to either Belfast or Peru, but I took that as a mandate to be really picky with my research when I set novels there.

My own definition of fanfic doesn't extend to works based on mythology or legend or folklore, but that's just my definition. If the definition is extended to those sources, then yes, every single written version of any myth is fanfic, because an individual author put his own spin on something out of older source material. I could even denounce Aeschylus' version of Athene in the Oresteia as having written her OOC for his own ends. *g*