

- A PicTease is teasing your readers with a picture, your banner, a word cloud, or a polyvore to entice them to read your upcoming chapter.
(Note: We reserve the right to turn down any submitted picture for any reason.)
- A Teaser Unplugged is teasing your readers with a song, via a YouTube video of the song, to entice them to read your upcoming chapter.
- A FanFlick is a video that is like a movie trailer only it is for a FanFic. Anyone can submit a FanFlick for a story. It is a great way to get new readers for your own story, or tease readers into reading a story you loved.
- A Reader Teaser is a teaser that is submitted by a reader, which can also be the author. It teases a story that has already been posted, whether it is still in progress or complete. If a picture or a song reminds you of a fic that you read last week or last year (and it is still posted), you can share it here. It’s a great way to spread the fic love.
- The PicTeasers are due weekly by Sunday, 11:59 pm CST, and will be posted every Monday. The Teasers Unplugged are due weekly by Wednesda, 8:00 pm CST, and will be posted every Thursday. The FanFlicks can be submitted anytime and I will post one or two every Friday, in the order I receive them. The Reader Teasers are due weekly by Friday, 11:59 pm CST, and will be posted every Saturday. I usually try to schedule all of the posts by 9:00 CST, but sometimes real life gets in the way and it may be later in the day.
- Teasing on the PicTease gets your story visible to a lot of people. Before moving to TwiFicNews our highest visit day was 1,556 hits on a Monday and 2,728 hits for the week and we average about 2,000 hits a week. I also tweet the author’s twitter account (when available) with the title of their story, the chapter being teased and the link to the PicTease site every Monday after the teasers are live.

I’ve been around the Twi-Fandom since February 2009. I troll around the interwebz searching for all things Twi-Related, more specifically Twi-FanFiction related. I have written a few one-shots, but while writing for the Inspiration is Key contest, I got to thinking. Music is what has always inspired my writing, but visually I’m driven to read. The banners and blinkies for stories often get me to click and read. So I thought, what if there was a place where weekly authors could visually tease their next chapter? I knew how much everyone loved The Fictionators – Teaser Mondays and I thought perhaps people will enjoy being visually teased as well —- and the PicTease was born.
My first Monday PicTeasers were posted on February 1, 2010. I had 10 teasers that week. The PicTease has grown since then with a teaser submission high of 44 on January 31, 2011. I get very giddy when I hear someone tell me they found a story they love from the PicTease, or when an author tells me someone found their story on the PicTease.
Sometime this fall, I was talking to Kassiah about an idea I had for the PicTease. I thought, “wouldn’t it be cool if you could actually search for teasers via their title, the author, the genre, or even a character?” There are so many different author blogs out there, so many of them dedicated to promoting their latest story, very often with pictures or teasers. How cool would it be if you came to PicTease one Monday and saw a picture that really caught your eye for the 23rd chapter of a story and thought, “I’d love to see all of the piceasers for this story, right now, in one place.” Kassiah said she thought that would be a cool idea and asked if I’d like to merge with TwiFicNews. Of course, I jumped on that offer without even needing to have one single second to think about it. What an honor to be partnered with TwiFicNews. Thank you Kassiah!!!!
Around the middle of December I started moving the posts over to this site. Since originally the teasers were posted in one post per week, I couldn’t just copy and paste those puppies. I had to make a new post for every teaser. So, my 52 posts ended up being 1,151 new posts….whewwww typing that made me tired…hehehe. I’ve uploaded 1,151 new pictures to the site as well. I know sometimes loading all of the pictures might be slow, but bear with us, we are working on that.

If you’d like to get your story visually teased, submit a PicTease here
If you’d like to get your story musically teased, submit a Teaser Unplugged here
If you’d like to share a teaser for a story you love, submit a Reader Teaser here
Is there a trailer you would like featured on Friday FanFlicks? Submit here
If you’d like any of the PicTease buttons on your site or in your siggy get our button codes here
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Disclaimer: PicTease at TwificNews aims to enhance the Twilight Fanfiction Community, not give cause for any source of contention on any front. All stories and characters that fall under the Twilight Universe and the rights to said universe are owned by Stephenie Meyer. All other publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners. No copyright infringement is intended.
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