Thursday, October 15, 2009

Whee! It's a Contest!

I was going to hold off on doing this contest thingy, but I'm feeling all Scrooge-after-the-ghosts-have-left. I want to give something away. No, it's not Christmas dinner.

Anyway, some of you may remember me talking a lot about the Mucus Shovel Fairy a while back. Kiersten first mentioned her in one of her tweets, something about how she was so stuffed up that she felt like she'd been hit in the face by the Mucus Shovel Fairy.

"Oooh." I tweeted back. "I wanna write a story about that. CanIcanIcanI?"

(Total aside: Are you friends with me on Twitter? I'm @carrharr. We should totally be friends so you can give me story ideas too.)

To make this long and tedious story into a short and tedious story, I wrote "Revenge of the Mucus Shovel Fairy." It's now available in the Shadows and Light anthology. You can buy it, or you can win a copy right here on this very blog! I'll even sign it, because I'm kewl like that.

Mucus. Shovels. You know you can't resist.

So how do you win? Simple. Give me your best alternate titles for Twilight. The more ridiculous, the better. (I kinda like ridiculous things. Hmm... you don't seem surprised.) Post them in the comments, as many as you want. And yes, you can enter even if you've won one of my other contests, because the Mucus Shovel Fairy is universal. You have until noon EST next Thursday. That would be October 22, 2009 for those of you in a time warp, or doing the Time Warp in which case why didn't you invite me because I find that dance very funny.

Bring me your sparkly, your marble-faced, your klutzy highschoolers yearning to be loved by stalkerish vampires. Set them loose in the comments. Win kewl stuff.

You know you want to.

Oh, and I'm planning to post the winner on the 23rd. Unless I get struck by lightning between now and then, in which case all bets are off.

57 comments:

  1. Vampires and Werewolves and Control Issues, Oh My!

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  2. Just off the top of my head...

    My Sparkly Boyfriend

    I'm in Love with a Vampire

    Blush

    I'll have to think about it more, and get back to you...

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  3. Hi Carrie :)
    Thanks for the chance to win.
    The Undead Stalker & Beautiful Introverted Bella
    :)
    All the best,
    RKCharron
    xoxo

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  4. Here are some altered titles from real books that I think would be more suited to Twilight...

    Too Great Expectations: How to Make Sure No Guy, Ever, is Good Enough. Ever.

    Mopey Dick: Good God, Man, Being Immortal isn't THAT Bad!

    Sense and Senselessness: He Smells Her, She Fan-Girl-Stalker-Level Loves Him.

    The Chronicles of Hormone-ia: The Lion, The Lamb, and The Wardrobe (or: Um, Edward? Why are you in my
    closet?)

    I'll be back, I'm sure. This is just too much fun.

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  5. Sara, yours are excellent!

    Um... now all of mine sound lame. I guess I'll give it a go anyways.



    There Are Infinite Ways to Say Gold

    Romantic Face-Touching

    My Girlfriend Smells

    Sparkles Forever

    Reasons Why Everyone Should Move to Forks

    This Book is Why I'm on "Team Jacob"

    Pervy, Dead, Old Men Like to Watch You Sleep

    "I Love You" "But I'm too Dangerous"
    "I Don't Care, I Love You" "But I'm too Dangerous"
    "I Don't Care, I Love You" "But I'm too Dangerous"
    "I Don't Care, I Love You" "But I'm too Dangerous"
    "I Don't Care, I Love You" "But I'm too Dangerous"
    "I Don't Care, I Love You" "But I'm too Dangerous"
    "I Don't Care, I Love You" "But I'm too Dangerous"
    "I Don't Care, I Love You" "But I'm too Dangerous"

    Guide to Parenting: Give Your Children Enough Attention or They'll Fall in Love With the First Guy They Talk to, Even if He's Dead

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  6. Clumsy, dateless, and desperate

    Just not that hungry

    Did you get into my glitter again?

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  7. Pride and Prejudice and Sparkles

    The Why Haven't You Been Eaten Yet Chronicles

    The Sappy Vegetarian Vampire Diaries

    I Shouldn't Be Alive: The Bella Swan Story

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  8. Okay, just so you know... my daughter does the time warp at least once a day--this makes me love her more. :)

    and now for my titles:

    It's like the fifties, but with vamps

    My dad's pretty clueless

    Lover, Stalker, Same Thing

    It's not love if he doesn't want to eat you

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  9. Vamps vs. Werewolves: The Untold Bella Swan Story

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  10. OMG, these are GENIUS, there's no way I can compete... but I'll try anyway.

    544 Pages of Wholesome Sexual Tension

    Because Buffy Had Too Much Backbone

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  11. I LOVE the Time Warp.

    (Side Note: I am following you on Twitter. I suck at the whole "being the muse" thing though. I sowwy. *hangs head*)

    Yes, you have successfully tempted me into entering this contest with mucus shoveling fairy tales...I cannot hope to resist...so here are my Twilight-Alternate-Titles:


    "I'm Plain, Clumsy And My Parents Don't Care About Me But Every Guy Wants Me For Some Ungodly Reason That My Tiny Little Brain Can't Comprehend"

    Too long? Alright how about:

    "Bella Dies: The End"

    "He Watches Me Sleep: The Creepiest Love Story Evah"

    "Looking Back, I Should Have Gone Out With Mike"

    "I'm In Love With My Dog"

    "Necrophilia: All The Kids Are Doing It!"



    I wanted to think up more, but those took all the brain power I had...*sniffles*

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  12. 'Come a Little Closer, Baby, even my Breath Smells Good.'

    'Skip to Page 213 if you want to Read about Something Happening'

    (the last one doesn't have to be the title, but it should be clearly printed on the cover somewhere)

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  13. OMG, this is way too fun! Everyone else's entries are way better than mine, but here goes...

    The Undead Creep and The Klutzy Sheep

    Chagrin Happens

    The Lion Lay Down with the Lamb... And Ate It

    Mary-Sue and the Sparkly Stalker

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  14. When I first read your post, I thought you wrote, "Marcus the Shovel Fairy" which I thought was really cool. Then I realized you wrote, "Mucus Shovel Fairy," which is a different kind of cool. Maybe I should write the Marcus story? Or add Marcus as a character in my NaNo novel?

    Congrats on getting your story in the anthology.

    Now for Twilight titles (some are obviously for later books or the whole series):

    Emo

    Sparkly Vampires Rule, Smelly Werewolves Drool

    Edward Loves Bella, Bella is Emo Over Edward, and Jacob is Just, In. The. Way!

    Everyone in This Book Has Issues, Which is Why You TOTALLY Have to Read It

    First Love, True Love, Dead Love, and Sparkles

    Klutzy Girl Finds True Love and Grows Fangs

    Forks, With Fangs

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  15. Hehehehe, too much fun.

    Giving Eddie the Forks
    La Push Off
    Overcast & Underdead
    The Tofu Human
    Scent of a Wuss

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  16. Global Warming is making my Sparkly Skin even more Sparklesome.

    I may be a Vampire, but I so do Daylight.

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  17. "Undead and Underage: The glitter makes it romantic!"

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  18. Vampires: Really Their Just Cold Teddy Bears

    Vampires: They're Just Like You and Me, But Also Like Blood

    Vampires: Misunderstood Unless They Want To Kill You

    Vampires: You Only Wish You Were One

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  19. I don't think I can compare to some of the previous titles, but here goes:

    Low Self-Esteem (and How the Undead CAN'T Fix It)

    Sign of the Sparkles (or How Edward Discovers He's Gay in Book 5)

    Gourmet Dining in a Recession (or One Body, Three Meals)

    The Apple Has Nothing To Do With Anything (or The Rest of the Book Doesn't Make Sense, Either)

    This is so fun!
    emilove.richardsonATgmailDOTcom

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  20. Okay, such a great contest idea. Love the entries so far. The first titles I thought of:

    "What? I can't hear you. My heart is beating too loudly...Again (another reason you should turn me into a vampire)."

    "The Hunger Games"

    "Yes, I watch you sleep. Is that creepy?"


    I'll be back later to add some.







    I'll be back to submit more titles later.

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  21. Oops, I wrote the same thing twice. :) I guess I'll have to come back. LOL

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  22. I Love High School So Much I Keep Coming Back

    I'z Not So Gud At Skool Acsuly

    I've Been Looking For My True Love In High Schools All Over the World For 80 Years

    Pedophile: I May Be 80, But I'm Still 17

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  23. OMG - I cannot compete with these awesome entries!

    Lots of Sparkle, Hold the Fangs

    Vegetarian Vampires: the Ultimate Fast

    Forever Seventeen (But I'm Really 195)

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  24. Thought of another:

    I Can Haz Bella

    Mountain Lions and Irritable Grizzlies = Yummy

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  25. Vampires in the Mist: The Untold Story of Isabella and her year with the Undead.

    ooooor

    When Sparkles Attack: Vamping it Up and Wolfing it Down in Smallville

    oooor

    Sparkly Stalker Men and the Women Who Love Them: a Case Study

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  26. Sleepless In Forks or, How I Watched Your Mother While She Slept

    T-T-Touch Me (But Only In A PG-13 Manner)

    Sparkle Man

    Ochre and Sparkles: Beauty Tips for the Undead

    (My wife's dragging me to New Moon, but I extracted a promise that I get to make fun of the movie.)

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  27. "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Corpse"

    Actually that sounds more like a murder mystery... and it really has nothing to do with Bella.

    Oh, well. I can't stand her, anyway.

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  28. so this is me crossing over...from Twitter to Blogger. i just couldn't pass up the chance to enter your Mucus Fairies in the Twilight contest!

    off the top o' me noggin...(my entries:)


    "Fads Doth Fade"
    "Say No! to Garlic Bread"
    "If on a winter's night a Vampire..."
    "Zen and the Art of Sappy Vampire Novels"
    "I Can't Believe It's Not Twilight"
    "10 Things Undead About You"
    "Not Another Teen Vampire Novel"
    "The Vampire's Guide to Human Girls"


    yeah, i really don't have anything. participation is fun, though.

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  29. "No, No Sparkle Like This!"

    "Clumsy, it is so a flaw!"

    "How to control your girlfriend; tell her you’re a vampire!"

    "Guide to Abusing the Thesaurus"

    "When Dark Fae claim to be Vampires, and stalk emotionally unhinged girls."

    That's it for now, everyone elses were so good.

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  30. Glitter with a hint of Orca--I mean ochre :p (I'm channeling both you and Stephenie. O:))

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  31. Wow, these are great. Don't know whether I can compete, but have to throw in this suggestion:

    Ocular Smoldering: Treatise on the Symptoms and Progression of an Extraordinary Postmortem Health Phenomenon

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  32. Why Bite?: Tale of a Reluctant Vampire

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  33. Okay, I'm back.

    (Twilight) Lord of the Fangs: The Fellowship of the Vegetarians

    (New Moon) Lord of the Fangs: The Two Supernatural Creatures

    (Eclipse) Lord of the Fangs: The Return (and Subsequent Destruction) of the Antagonist (Thereby Negating a Need for a Fourth Book)

    Vampires of the Northwestern Seaboard: Dead Man's Chest

    Vampires of the Northwestern Seaboard: At World's End

    Okay, I'm really done now. Promise. Unless I think of something awesome.

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  34. "Why I can't stand the sight of Blood and other Cliches"

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  35. This is fun!

    Okay, here's mine:

    Once you have glitter, you never go back.

    My boyfriend sparkles more than your boyfriend.

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  36. Wow I'm late to this game, but gotta join. Amazing titles! Here are my humble contributions:

    Dude, Where's My Soul?

    A Room With a View...From the Shadowed Corner

    The Never Ending Story, or When's Bella Gonna Go Vamp Already?

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  38. Chicks Don't Want to Bang Nosferatu

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  39. (that was from PVPONLINE, BTW)

    SNARK

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  40. fun contest! I think all mine suck but I'll give it a try!

    Sparkle, Shine!

    I'm Not Crazy, My Boyfriend Is A Vampire!

    The Boy With The Topaz (and sometimes, black) Eyes

    The Care and Feeding of Mythical Creatures

    Stalking Is Sexy (No, really!)

    Deadly Scent

    What To Do When Your Boyfriend Thinks You're Food

    19th Century Love And Today's Teens

    How To Stalk A Girl and Get Her To Fall In Love With You

    Stalking Works!

    It's Not Creepy, It's Love!

    Purple Prose Forever

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  41. Ooh, oooh I thought of one more!

    Carlisle Cullen: Jedi Knight or Puppet Master

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  42. Not only did I not read each and every one of these (though the ones I've read are great), I haven't even seen this movie (believe me, that fact keeps me up at night), but I have a few:

    Stupid girl likes a guy that looks like those guys that like guys.

    Yikes! That's cold!

    Wait, what happened to cool, bad ass vampires that were, ya know, dudes?

    What happens when I'm 90 and he still looks 11?

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  43. "Cold is the new Hot"

    "Guide to statue cuddling"

    "From plotting your death to love at third...okay maybe fourth sight (who am I kidding, I didn't love you until I realized I really couldn't read your mind)"

    "A Travel Guide to Forks: read about ever tree in detail"

    BTW, no love lost SM. I read your first 3 books in 4 days. I was addicted.

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  44. here's my title, enjoy ;-D

    Mr. Sparkle Finds Some Bling

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  45. The Lovely Cheekbones.

    (It wasn't until I reread Twilight that I realized how often she mentions Edward's cheekbones.)

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  46. - Lord of the Undead Sparkles -

    She Sobbs(it)

    Fellowship of the Sparkly

    The Two Bella Fella's

    Return of the Angst

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  47. How about:

    Fangs or Fur

    lizzi0915 at aol dot com

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  48. Episode One: Phantom of the Supernatural Fetish
    Episode Two: Attack of the Janes
    Episode Three: Revenge of the Vic(toria)
    Episode Four: Hunky Guys on the cover of Star magazine Wars: A New Grope

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  49. Just because I sparkle doesn't mean I can't get it on!

    Oh wait.... How bout

    Bella meets Mr. Sparkle

    Or

    Forks ... it's better than Spoons....

    IDK...I don't do well at naming books. I would have just called it.

    Bella Swan

    LOL

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  50. Child's Play Part XIII: The Conception of Renesmee

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  51. I'm a bit slow off the blocks...

    Why Burn When You Can Sparkle.

    The Stalker, the Klutz, and the Heroin-Tainted Blood.

    Saying No to Blood: 101 Tips of How to Not Eat Your Lover, No Matter How Much She Wants It.

    The Watcher.

    The Need for Sparkles.

    Forks: The Tale of Dull, the Undead and the Sexually Repressed.

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  52. Oooh this is fun!

    The Trials and Tribulations of Mary Sue

    Blood and Sparkles

    Cold Hard Sun

    The Coldest Kiss

    A Sleepless Love

    Golden Butterscotch

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  53. When Sparkles Attack: a Love(ish) Story

    oooorrrr

    Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!: A Veganpire Cookbook

    ooorrrr

    Bella Dies at the End (Kinda)

    ooorrrrr

    The Hundred Year Gap: Dating Younger (Living) Women

    oooorrrr

    Veganpires: the Truth Behind the Legends of the Chupacabra

    oooorrrr

    I'd Rather Be Dead and Sparkly: the Morbid Obsessions of the Chronically Clumsy and Socially Stunted--A Character Study

    ooorrr

    How to Turn Sparkles, Veganpires, and Teenage Fantasies into a Cashcow

    ooorrrr

    Hot Fur and Cold Sparkles: The Chaste Harlequin Chronicles

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  54. I know the contest is closed by my dear friend Jason wants you to know that his wife calls the Twilight series "Sweet Valley High for Vampires"

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