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Free eBook Week

March 3, 2014 by Icy Sedgwick Leave a Comment

It’s Free eBook Week on Smashwords until Saturday 8 March, so I’m making two of my titles available. You can grab Checkmate & Other Stories, a collection of fifteen short tales, spanning fantasy, horror, sci fi and speculative fiction. Among other things, ‘Bleed Them Dry’ puts a new spin on vampires, talking corpses tell their side in ‘The Dead Do Listen’ and and a devilish game of chess goes wrong in ‘Checkmate’.

There is also Dead Man’s Hand, a collection of three interwoven stories surrounding the infamous Dead Man’s Hand of cards. In Part I, Edmund Rothers encounters a gambler with a grudge in nineteenth century Kansas. In Part II, one of his descendants discovers the perils of online gambling in the twenty-first century. In Part III, a legendary gunslinger learns the true extent to his legacy. The collection also includes the first chapter of the pulp Western novella, The Guns of Retribution, as a sample read.

Simply enter the code RW100 at the checkout to apply the discount. It would be lovely, but not essential, to get some reviews!

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Who is Icy Sedgwick?

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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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