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- ↑ "Guest post: Wizard's Tower Press | Galley Beggar Press". galleybeggar.co.uk. Archived from the original on 14 September 2016.
- ↑ Colin Harvey (26 May 2015). Winter Song. Wizard's Tower Press. pp. 273–. ISBN 978-1-908039-43-9.