Thank you so much! We had some great entries!!!!

The randomly selected winner of the three prizes is…..

Caroline Sibley! Her story “Feel” is here at her tumbler!

Congrats, Caroline! Email me at tessa.gratton@gmail.com with your mailing address, and the three of us will send out your prizes!

Thanks again to all of our Watchers. You guys are the best. Don’t forget this week myself, Brenna, and Maggie will be posting OUR story responses to the same prompt from the contest. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday! A 3-in-1 week!

Hi all!

In honor of our new blog home, and to make up for that Week of Silence thanks to the attacks on LiveJournal a couple of weeks ago, we’re hosting a prompt contest!

All you have to do is write something original based on the prompt below, and post it to your blog or Facebook where other people can read it. It can be a story, a poem, flash fiction – anything you like! Link back here in the comments, and you’re entered!

We’ll randomly select a winner for THESE AMAZING PRIZES:

• A signed advance reader’s copy of THE SCORPIO RACES by Maggie Stiefvater
• A signed advance reader’s copy of THE SPACE BETWEEN by Brenna Yovanoff
• A signed hardback of BLOOD MAGIC by Tessa Gratton

The deadline is this Friday at midnight CST. We’ll announce the winner on Saturday…. and then next week, Brenna, Maggie and I will each post a story that WE write, based on the same prompt. Brenna on Monday, me on Wednesday, and Maggie on Friday, the way we used to post back in 2008 when The Merry Sisters of Fate first began!

Here’s your prompt, “The Turret Stairs” by Frederic Burton:

Have at it!

This is Merry Sisters of Fate: Fiction that Runs with Scissors.

Tessa Gratton, Maggie Stiefvater, Brenna Yovanoff

You’ve found the right place for the dark, the weird, and the disturbingly beautiful. From flesh-eating faeries and demons in love, to unearthly magicians and alternate histories, the Merry Fates explore the creepy shadows where monsters and magic touch our world. Sometimes contemporary and humorous, at other times tormented, romantic, or drawing heavily from fairy tales, there’s something for everyone in the short stories.

Every month, we offer three original short stories. Tessa tends toward the mythical and bloody, Maggie prefers her monsters with a heavy dose of angst and sarcasm, and Brenna lures readers in with delicate and dangerous sense of the macabre. On the fourth Monday, a guest author will offer a short story for your delectation!

Recently, we sold a collection of stories to Andrew Karre at Carolrhoda Lab for publication in 2012. The project will explore the way we write and edit our stories, including chats, emails, and commentary from readers. We’re very excited about it!

The name Merry Sisters of Fate comes from a traditional Irish reel.

New fiction appears every Monday!

Hi, all! Just a quick announcement:

Tomorrow (Wednesday) evening, at 9pm EST, all three of us will be chatting online with WriteOnCon!

For all the information you need, Follow this link!!!

Come party with us! Hee hee.

Thanks to everybody for playing in the contest! We had a lot of fun reading your quotations!

The winner, chosen randomly, is silvertwi!!!

Congrats! Email me at tessa dot gratton at gmail dot com with your address and I’ll get your signed, doodled copy of BLOOD MAGIC mailed out!

Because it’s the FIFTH week of the month, it’s CONTEST TIME!!!!!

We’re giving away a signed, doodled in copy of BLOOD MAGIC, which just came out last Tuesday. Ooooooo! Ahhhhhhh!

All YOU have to do to win is:

Write a sentence or phrase that epitomizes YOU – something zany and creative or twisted and funny, whatever you think suits you best. Imagine this is something you found skimming through Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. Comment to this post with it.

On Friday, we’ll choose a random winner and BLOOD MAGIC will be yours!!!

We can’t wait to see what you come up with!

Hi, and welcome to everyone who’s stopped by through LJ Spotlight! We’re glad to have you.

We post a short story here every Monday. The first of the month is Brenna, the second Tessa, and the third Maggie. On the fourth Monday we’ll have a guest author from the speculative YA community. If there are any Monday’s left in the month, we’ll hold a contest.

To get you started, the three of us have picked out some of our favorite stories from the last year or so.

BRENNA:

• Neighbors
• The Brimstone Dog
• Permanent Scars

TESSA:

• Date with a Dragon-Slayer
• The Vampire Box
• Inheritance

MAGGIE:

• Twelve Steps
• The Last Day of Spring
• Non Quis, Sed Quid

Enjoy!

Thanks for all the rad entries to our contest last week!

We love the lovin! Aw, yeah!

(Can you tell I’m sleep deprived?)

The winner of our BLOOD MAGIC arc is……

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kaymcgriff!

Congratulations, Kay!

Email me at tessa dot gratton at gmail dot com with your mailing address and we will send that arc to you!

For everyone else, thank you so much for participating. I promise there WILL be other opportunities to get your hands on my book in the next few weeks, over on my blog. >:D

Hey everybody! Since this is the 5th Monday of the month, we’re having a contest!

The prize?

AN ARC OF BLOOD MAGIC, BY YOURS TRULY.

This is the very first ARC I’m giving away, and we’re so excited to offer it here on Merry Fates first!

All you have to do to win is tell the world which of our stories is your favorite. On your blog, on Facebook, on Twitter – wherever people will see it!

Link us to your entry here in the comments, and you’ll get your name dropped in the hat. We’ll randomly draw and announce the winners next week when the three of us are together at a retreat. Assuming we aren’t buried in two feet of snow.

To get you started, you can use any of the tags over on the left side of the screen, or check out this post were we tell you which of our recent stories are OUR favorites: clicky, clicky!

Go! Spread the love! Win awesome prizes!

Hey, all!

The Merry Fates are taking the rest of 2010 off to recoup and party for the holidays, but we wanted to leave you with our awesome 2011 plans and also our favorite stories of the past few months to tide you over.

First of all, starting in January 2011 we’ll be offering FOUR stories instead of just three. The cool part though, is that story number four will always be written by a guest YA writer. It’ll go:

Week one: Brenna
Week two: Tessa
Week three: Maggie
Week four: incredi-guest!

(if there’s a week five in any given month, we’ll run a contest!)

Here’s the exciting line-up:

January – Beth Revis
February – Janni Lee Simner
March – Victoria Schwab
April – Carrie Ryan
May – Leah Cypess
June – Myra McEntire
July – Lucy Christopher
August – Elizabeth Scott
September – Jackson Pearce
October – Lauren DeStefano
November – Swati Avasthi

So that’s what we all have to look forward to! More stories, more authors, more fun!

And to get you through to January, here are six of our favorite recent stories:

JUDGEMENT by Brenna. “The first thing that happened wasn’t even that strange. It started to rain.”

THE BONE TENDER by Brenna. “When Brandon Rowe was eight years old, he hit a squirrel with a rock and broke its back.”

THE VAMPIRE BOX by Tessa. “We have a vampire living in our basement.”

DATE WITH A DRAGON SLAYER by Tessa. “Sean Hardy was a dragon slayer. It was a small dragon, only about the size of a barn, but still. He killed it.”

THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT by Maggie. “Yesterday, Mr. Colquitt knocked on our door and told my parents they were blowing up the moon.”

NON QUIS, SED QUID by Maggie. “She’d been dating the demon for about a year.”

Enjoy, and thanks as ever for reading!