Cover Story + A Peek Inside: The Curiosities by Maggie Stiefvater, Brenna Yovanoff & Tessa Gratton

Over at the Merry Sisters of Fate, a collaborative blog created by Maggie Stiefvater, Brenna Yovanoff, and Tessa Gratton, they have revealed the cover for their new book! The Curiosities looks amazing; it's a collection of the short stories that have been featured at Merry Sisters of Fate, which would be awesome all by itself, but the book also features little scribblings and illustrations by the authors. I just heard about this book for the first time yesterday and I can tell you, I am so excited to get my hands on it Fall 2012!!

The beautiful cover:

Synopsis:

A vampire locked in a cage in the basement, for good luck.

Bad guys, clever girls, and the various reasons why the guys have to stop breathing.

A world where fires never go out (with references to vanilla ice cream).

These are but a few of the curiosities collected in this volume of short stories by three acclaimed practitioners of paranormal fiction.

But The Curiosities is more than the stories. Since 2008, Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, and Brenna Yovanoff have posted more than 250 works of short fiction to their website merryfates.com. Their goal was simple: create a space for experimentation and improvisation in their writing—all in public and without a backspace key. In that spirit, The Curiosities includes the stories and each author’s comments, critiques, and kudos in the margins. Think of it as a guided tour of the creative processes of three acclaimed authors.

So, are you curious now?

And a little peek at an annotated page and some of the fun illustrations inside:

And a trailer!

Doesn't this look incredible? Often I would say I don't go in for short story collections, but this looks too fun to pass up and involves three amazing authors! Be sure to stop by the Merry Sisters of Fate site---they are giving away a few ARC copies of The Curiosites this weekend!

Elevensie Tessa Gratton's Cool Linger Contest!!

Tessa Gratton is running a cool contest at her blog! For those who haven't heard, Tessa is one of the amazing Elevensies, the 2011 Debut authors. Her book, Blood Magic sounds absolutely amazing and I can't wait to see a cover reveal for this one---it's sure to be awesome with a plot like that! She is also one of the three authors who writes short fiction on Merry Sisters of Fate, along with Brenna Yovanoff and Maggie Stiefvater.

So, while she doesn't have a copy of her debut book to share just yet, she does have one seriously awesome prize to give away: an ARC of Linger by Maggie Stiefvater!! And while this is awesome in it's own right, this completely one-of-a-kind copy is signed by Maggie in the back with the first line of Forever, the final book in the series!!! How cool is that??
Head on over to her livejournal to find out all the details on how to enter! One of the ways to enter is to posting one of the Epic Tessa cartoons, but you can also get an extra entry by drawing your own! So here is mine!! And the link to her site: http://tessagratton.com/