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Photo Prompt 45

August 8, 2011 by Icy Sedgwick Leave a Comment

Latest prompt, ready and waiting. If you want to use the prompt, all I ask is that you include a link to this entry and a credit to me for the photograph, and that you post a link to your story in the comments box below so I can see what you’ve come up with! […]

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Friday Flash – A Hero Comes Along

August 5, 2011 by Icy Sedgwick 40 Comments

I’ve taken this story down as it’s now out for submission!

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Are digital magazine subscriptions the future?

August 4, 2011 by Icy Sedgwick 10 Comments

I came across this post on the io9 blog, and actually went “SQUEE!” when I read the announcement. It seems that the seminal fiction magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, is going digital. It’ll be available for the Kindle, with both a stripped down free option, or a subscription to all of the […]

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Western Whodunnit Dust and Death available now

August 3, 2011 by Icy Sedgwick Leave a Comment

Do you remember those Choose Your Own Adventures books from when you were a kid? You were dropped into a narrative scenario, and the choices you made at the end of each page determined the course of the story. Well, they’re back. Sort of. Here we have the online version! Read the story, and click […]

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Review Policy

August 2, 2011 by Icy Sedgwick 2 Comments

You may have noticed that I’ve reviewed a fair few works of fiction lately. Most of them are by writers that I talk to online, and whose work I want to champion. Sometimes I’ll review books by writers I don’t know, and sometimes I review books about writing – I’m tricksy like that. Now, I […]

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Photo Prompt 44

August 1, 2011 by Icy Sedgwick 1 Comment

Latest prompt, ready and waiting. If you want to use the prompt, all I ask is that you include a link to this entry and a credit to me for the photograph, and that you post a link to your story in the comments box below so I can see what you’ve come up with! […]

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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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