Alright, dear readers, it's contest time! I've always wanted to do something like this, and now I finally am. I'm giddy with excitement.

This constant is going to be about creativity, something none of you lack.

There are three options are far as entries go. Hence, there will be three first prize winners.

Option one!

Create an original character that you think would fit into one of my Lucian stories – Berlin After Dark, Lucy and the Future King, The Prince of Thieves, Stolen Skin, and Standing Alone. Whoever you create must be believable within the universe of the story. You wouldn't create a centaur for Standing Alone or Berlin After Dark, but you could for the other three. Also, this character cannot just show up. They have to know one of the main or supporting characters personally.

I want details. I want to know everything about their appearance, personality and history. You could be the character if you wish, or you could create someone entirely new.

You can either write out a character sheet, which goes as follows.

Name: Jane Doe

Age: 18

Height: 5'7"

…

How they met or know one of the story characters: Met Lucy at school and called her a brat.

And so on, and so forth. Or you can write a small vignette, in which you write a very short story, maybe no more than a paragraph, that describes you character fully and the incident with the corresponding story character.

Whichever character who I feel is the most original and believable will be written into the universe they are based off of as a main or supporting character for an entire chapter. This will be no cameo appearance. They will directly influence the plot, and possibly appear in further chapters. I want real thought and effort going into your creation.

Option two!

You must write out the plot for one of my stories, or a new story, in which a main character is killed in a matter that is believable, and will emit an emotional response from the other readers. For a new story, it can be any character you want, as long as their death affects me and the readers emotionally. You can make us cry or laugh, sneer or chuckle, but it must make sense.

For an existing character, you can kill anyone, except for the following characters: Lucy, Caspian, any member of the immediate Pevensie family (including George and Mary), Glozelle, Prunapismia and Gwen. Every other character is fair game.

You don't have to write out the scene in which they die, but I want every little detail that you can give me.

The death that appeals most to me will be written into either a current story or a new one, whichever option the entry chooses. This, of course, will affect the path of the story, so be careful in your selection.

As for the method of the killing, be as creative as you want. Just know that I will not pick anything too gory or gratuitous. There will be no gore porn. Murder is fine, however, as are natural causes. The only other stipulation for this chapter is that you have to write out the character's last words in complete sentences. They don't have to be speaking to anyone in particular, but they have to say something.

Option three!

Give me a plot for a completely new Christmas special that is not based on any of my stories. It must be a completely original one-shot, and it must take place in a modern, alternate universe. All of the characters must be human, meaning no supernatural or Narnian creatures. You can turn some of the more human characters completely human, such as Glenstorm and Mr. Tumnus, but they must be human.

The story must be a romance story about Lucy and Caspian, and it must have a happy ending. It also must contain physical affection between the two of them, meaning this is the one option in which you can suggest not only a lemon, but even some light fetishes as well. Nothing too hardcore, of course, but maybe ice cubes, light bondage, outdoor sex, even some not-so-violent, ahem, anal play. Teehee! But I want nothing painful or bloody. It must be loving and sensual.

Lucy and Caspian can be any age between sixteen and thirty-four, but the age difference between the two will be based on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, meaning Caspian will be five years older than Lucy. I also want this story to be thoroughly saturated with Christmas themes – Christmas cookies, Christmas trees, boughs of holly, the works.

If you choose, it can be based on one of these popular Christmas movies/stories – The Nutcracker, A Christmas Carol, Bridget Jone's Diary, or Remember the Night. It cannot, however, be a carbon copy. You can draw elements from it, but I am not rewriting any of these stories with Lucy and Caspian in place of the original characters.

There are two more parameters for this story – it must be snowing, and on Christmas Eve, the heating goes out. You can, however, use a fireplace.

I will write a one-shot based on the most romantic and appealing plot.

If you haven't notice, in each of the options, I will be writing out the winner's idea. But there are more prizes! Each of the winners will have the option of choosing one of three other prizes. They will get to read either the final chapter of Lucy and the Future King, the epilogue of Lucy and the Future King, or the first chapter of a new, mysterious project.

There are some rules, however. You can choose to enter the contest with all three options, but for each one, you must write a separate review for each entry. Any reviews containing more than one idea will be immediately discarded. You can write out more than one idea, increasing your chance of winning, but each idea must be written in a separate review.

I will reveal the winner of the first option in the next chapter of Lucy and the Future King, the winner of the second in the next chapter of Berlin After Dark, and the winner of the third in the next chapter of The Prince of Thieves.

Have a ball, my friends, and get cracking.