In case you're (or anyone is) interested... Here's the best list I can find; most can be found on "fanfiction.net."
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P.N. Elrod
Raymond Feist
Terry Goodkind
Laurell K. Hamilton
Robin Hobb
Anne McCaffrey *
Dennis L. McKiernan
Robin McKinley
Irene Radford
Anne Rice
Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb
Lynn Flewelling**
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Mercedes Lackey
David Webber
not an author, but a property... Archie Comics
* - it has been brought to my attention a few times that Ms. McCaffrey has changed her policy on fanfic, however, she doesn't want any fanfic on 'slasher' sites, and since the vast, vast majority of fics on this comm are slashy, i still think the best way to comply with her wishes is to forbid fics from her books. sorry!
** - Lynn Flewelling asked people personally not to write fanfic
~From: http://community.livejournal.com/fic_on_demand/325.html
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Basically, I believe the authors have specific copyrights that bar people from using their characters, except in certain circumstances that have nothing to do with fanfic, roleplaying, or anything like that. I imagine the reasoning is that they are using the characters as characters, as part of a creative process, and so that kind of crosses over to the author's creative process...and is likely to clash with it. So some are prickly about that, some aren't.
And if you think that's an unreliable source...I beg to differ. Those fanfic people know their stuff.
