So! I'm a little late this year…. Usually I try to have this out on the 21st of December, but… Oh well. It's still 2014! I writing this at 7:30 PM on the 31st of December, so I'm on time!

But I'm being very rude, and assuming that everyone reading this knows what the deal is here. I'll fill you guys in:

This is a Sisters Grimm Fanfiction competition that I hold at the end of each year, in an effort to determine which SG fanfic published that year was the best! As 2014 comes to an end, it's time for us to decide which story was the best Sisters Grimm story of 2014!

And I'm here to collect your nominations.

BUT! I have some rules that I need to put in place for this round of the competition. They're very important, no, essential to this competition. In fact, I would go so far as to say that the rules are the essence of the competition! To ignore these rules would be to sit on this competition's head, smothering and crushing its skull with your bottom, like my year 5 teacher did to my classmate's matchstick triangular pyramid, which had sat atop her desk. Furthermore, to ignore these rules would put my rule-writing efforts to waste! You know, I used to be able to just copy-and-paste them from the previous year. But noooooo! FF had to come along and make it impossible to highlight the words written on any published story! NOW I HAVE TO TYPE EACH WORD BY HAND!

So yeah. Please read the rules, I guess

Here they are:

Rule number:

1: The fanfiction that you nominate MUST be of the Sisters Grimm category on this website

2: The fanfiction that you nominate MUST have been published this year (it tells you in the little blurb section).

3: When you nominate, you must include the story title and the author.

4: Every fanfiction that is nominated and abides by the rules will be forwarded on to the first round of voting, regardless of how many times it is nominated, or what I think or it.

5: You may nominated your own fanfiction.

6: You may nominate as many fanfictions as you like. Preferably no more than 9, though, because 9 is a aesthetically pleasing number.

7: Nominations must be submitted via a comment on this chapter, or a PM to me.

8: Nominations will be closed in 10 days, on the the 10th of January 2015. I'll update this on the 11th or 12th.

Those are the rules! Aren't they great? They're pretty great.

Oh! And a note to all authors:

If your story is nominated, I'll send you a PM on the 10th of January, unless it is the only story you have that can be nominated for this, in which case I'll probably send you a PM shortly after I have collected your story's nomination. If you've disabled your PMs, I'll submit a comment on one of your stories. Probably the one you've last updated. Who knows.

Thanks for reading all of this, guys. I'm guessing a lot of you have a couple stories in mind, that you think deserve to win. So nominate away!

Also, it'd be helpful if you guys could get the word out that this has started. You could do that by commenting on the forums, or PMing your friends, or mentioning it in an update of your story. Just so that we have a lot of community participation.

I think that's about it really…

Nominations end on the 10th, and I'll see you guys again on the 11th or 12th!

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and good luck to everyone!

Thanks,

Ellie.