He's not calling it a fan art contest, but I'm pretty sure it is

John Connolly, author of a number of very excellent books including The Book of Lost Things, has launched an art contest to find someone to do a set of art cards that will be given away with copies of his new book. The contest: Design your own cover to your favorite novel of horror or the supernatural. What fun, eh?? So get out there, all my artistic friends!

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Aaaaand the last ones are up!

Reveals are up over at mini_fest and happy_trekmas, so the last of the four fics I wrote for December fests can now be unveiled! (I know, I know, you've all been waiting, haven't you??)

nursedarry, whose fault it is that I'm here on LJ at all (smooches her), persuaded me to write for happy_trekmas this year. I wrote "Walk Beside Me", a series of missing scenes (all canon-compliant, natch!) that show the growth of the friendship between James T. Kirk and Spock. You can read it on the fest's LJ site or over on AO3. Rating is G, word count is 4156, and it's TOS all the way, no rebootin' AU here, nosiree bub.

For mini_fest this year I tried a pairing I've never done before (Severus and Petunia) and wrote a story called "A Part of Yesterday." One commenter was kind enough to say that "you made me like the horrid Petunia" :) It's angsty, of course, and bittersweet, but I enjoyed writing it very much since it was something I'd never done before, and I'm pleased with the way it came out. You can read it on the fest's LJ site or over on AO3. Rating is Teen/PG-13, word count is 6651, and it's entirely canon-compliant, so don't expect a happy ending.

(I've also now got my hoggywartyxmas spoof of "The Night Before Christmas" posted on AO3.)