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Short stories make excellent writing samples

February 8, 2016 by Icy Sedgwick 4 Comments

short stories make excellent writing samples

I posted a few weeks ago that the newest Bloody Parchment anthology of short stories, Beachfront Starter Home, Good Bones was forthcoming. I can now announce that it’s available to buy! You can grab it from Amazon for the Kindle, or if you have an EPUB reader then head over to Smashwords. At £2.80 for twelve […]

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Has Tarantino has made the Western popular again?

January 9, 2016 by Icy Sedgwick 4 Comments

Sometimes the west is weird as well as wild. Grey O'Donnell is back in To Kill A Dead Man, trying to cover who - or what - roams the Colorado forest...

Looks like Quentin Tarantino might be making the Western popular again with the release of The Hateful Eight! I saw it last night and by God, it was marvellous, but I’ll be doing a video review so I’ll talk more about it then. That was more just a passing comment before I get to the […]

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The Best of Luna Station Quarterly is here!

July 18, 2015 by Icy Sedgwick 1 Comment

I’m pleased to announce I have a story in a new anthology! The Best of Luna Station Quarterly: The First Five Years  features FIFTY stories by women writers who have all appeared in Luna Station Quarterly, and it has an absolutely stunning cover by Hugo Award-winning artist Julie Dillon. My story is The Sought After Smile, a fantasy […]

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Forthcoming story in the Masks anthology

May 13, 2015 by Icy Sedgwick 2 Comments

I had two stories publishing in anthologies in 2014 (‘A Woman of Disrepute’ in Suspended in Dusk and ‘The Cursed One‘ in European Monsters), and I’m happy to announce I have a story in the forthcoming Masks anthology, compiled and edited by Dean M Drinkel with the UK-based KnightWatch Press. Inspired by Eleanor Rigby, the 1966 song by the […]

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Get Suspended in Dusk for FREE until Halloween

October 25, 2014 by Icy Sedgwick Leave a Comment

I posted a little while ago about having a story in a new anthology, Suspended in Dusk, edited by the lovely Simon Dewar, and featuring an introduction by Jack Ketchum. Isn’t that a fabulous cover? Well it’s been causing quite a buzz, earning some wonderful reviews over on Goodreads and Amazon! I’m really pleased to […]

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How to find inspiration in a graveyard

September 30, 2014 by Icy Sedgwick 4 Comments

cross bones graveyard

Asking people to visit a graveyard can sometimes be a hard sell. But a writer needs little persuasion. Writers know just how inspiring cemeteries and burial sites can be. Back in 2014, I had a short story included in the Suspended in Dusk anthology, published by Books of the Dead. I intended ‘A Woman of Disrepute’ to be […]

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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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