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The Necromancer’s Apprentice is available now!

March 14, 2014 by Icy Sedgwick 12 Comments

Apprentice_eBook_smallNormally I’d use a Friday to post one of my Friday flash stories, but this week it’s rather different. Not only is it my birthday (wow, 825 already!), today also makes the day you can buy The Necromancer’s Apprentice! It’s a novella of which I am immensely proud, and I hope anyone who buys it enjoys reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. I do have to make a special shout out to Rob Diaz and Tony Noland for being my beta readers, Nerine Dorman for editing my work, and Daniël Hugo and Carmen Begley for creating such a fabulous cover!

You can currently buy the eBook from Amazon here, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo!

Blurb

Though Jyximus Faire lives in a crumbling tenement in the Underground City, he escapes the squalor daily to attend lessons in magic and sorcery at the prestigious Academy in the City Above.

But the pace isn’t fast enough for Jyx. He wants to learn everything—and he wants to learn it now. Then the dread necromancer general Eufame Delsenza sets her sights on Jyx; she needs a new apprentice, and Jyx fits the bill. When she tasks him with helping to prepare royal mummies for an all-important procession, he realises this might be a chance of a lifetime.

Will Jyx’s impatience lead to him taking his education into his own inexperienced hands, and can a necromancer’s apprentice really learn to raise the dead—and control them?

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  1. Tony Noland says

    March 14, 2014 at 12:58 pm

    Congratulations on the launch, Icy!

    Reply
    • Icy Sedgwick says

      March 15, 2014 at 8:55 am

      Thanks! I’ll be doing ‘proper’ promotion next month.

      Reply
  2. Larry Kollar says

    March 14, 2014 at 3:50 pm

    I got mine!

    Reply
    • Icy Sedgwick says

      March 15, 2014 at 8:55 am

      Hope you like it!

      Reply
  3. Chuck Allen says

    March 14, 2014 at 4:44 pm

    Congrats on the launch! I’m going to check it out now.

    And Happy Birthday!

    Reply
    • Icy Sedgwick says

      March 15, 2014 at 8:56 am

      Thank you!

      Reply
  4. John Wiswell says

    March 14, 2014 at 6:04 pm

    Rad, Icy! I linked this up on Reddit, too, since someone in /r/Fantasy was asking for fiction about necromancers. Uncanny, right?

    Reply
    • Icy Sedgwick says

      March 15, 2014 at 8:58 am

      Oooh that’s good timing!

      Reply
  5. David G Shrock says

    March 14, 2014 at 9:39 pm

    Excellent. Even better than a flash on Friday.

    Reply
    • Icy Sedgwick says

      March 15, 2014 at 8:59 am

      Hopefully I’ll be doing more in this setting.

      Reply
  6. Katherine Hajer says

    March 16, 2014 at 11:52 pm

    Congratulations on the launch! And many centuries of happy returns on the birthday.

    Reply

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  1. #FridayFlash - Wolfkin - Icy Sedgwick says:
    September 7, 2018 at 3:44 pm

    […] If you liked the sound of this Wolfkin, you can read more about them in my new novella, The Necromancer’s Apprentice. […]

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Icy is a folklore blogger and host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast. She is based in the north east of England, where she was born and raised amid the folk tales and legends of Tyneside and Northumberland. Icy is fascinated by history, cinema, art, and the occult, and griffins will always be her favourite mythical beast. She also writes dark fantasy novellas, Gothic short stories and the occasional weird Western, and she holds a PhD in Film Studies!

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