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…that most meta of Irish holidays<\/a>, and certainly the most Dublinesque.<\/p>\n

So on this special day only (June 16, 2024),<\/strong> the urban fantasy novella <\/a>Herself<\/i><\/a> is naturally free to download!<\/p>\n

(If you are reading this after<\/em> June 16th, 2024, please note that the free-download offer is now over. The. book will be available again for free download on June 16, 2025.)<\/p>\n

\"HERSELF<\/a><\/p>\n

You can download it using this link<\/a> at the Ebooks DIrect store<\/a>. Just go through the checkout as if you were buying something: you won’t be charged.<\/p>\n

This 12,000 word novella also appears as part of DD’s short fiction collection Uptown Local and Other Interventions<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In this tale of a Dublin where the Fair People go about their lives like everybody else (or try to), a mortal ally with the Seeing gift discovers that the Good Folk are\u00a0 being targeted by a deadly threat of the modern world.<\/p>\n

Their only hope of survival: to raise the dead\u2014not in general: just one very<\/i> important dead person\u2014and discover whether he can save a vital part of Irish life from being destroyed forever. But will the cure be worse than the disease…?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

(ETA: for The Day That’s In It, and the week following June 16, we’ve also dropped the price on our Whole Store Bundle: 36 ebooks for $34.99<\/a>. … Just saying.) \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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