Finn Longman
@finnlongman.com
Author (THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN trilogy; THE WOLF AND HIS KING) and medievalist specialising in the Ulster Cycle. #1 fan of Láeg mac Ríangabra.
🏳️🌈 they/them | siad/iad
📍Cambridge, UK
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https://finnlongman.com
🏳️🌈 they/them | siad/iad
📍Cambridge, UK
♿
https://finnlongman.com
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Finn Longman
@finnlongman.com
· Oct 15
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I write both YA and Adult fiction, with three books published and three forthcoming. You can find more information about most of my books on their dedicated pages — use the dropdown menu or c…
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Intro thread! I'm Finn, an author & medievalist. My books:
· THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN trilogy: a teenage assassin tries to live a normal life
· THE WOLF AND HIS KING (2025): a queer retelling of Bisclavret
· THE ANIMALS WE BECAME (2026): a queertrans take on Math fab Mathonwy
FinnLongman.com/books
· THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN trilogy: a teenage assassin tries to live a normal life
· THE WOLF AND HIS KING (2025): a queer retelling of Bisclavret
· THE ANIMALS WE BECAME (2026): a queertrans take on Math fab Mathonwy
FinnLongman.com/books
Convincing you to read THE WOLF AND HIS KING (90k) based on the punctuation I used in it:
- full stop [.] ~5350
- question mark [?] 257
- exclamation mark [!] 11
- ellipsis [ . . . ] 83
- en dash* [–] 476
- parentheses [()] 21 pairs
- comma [,] ~6540
- colon [:] 183
- semicolon [;] 251
*UK pub!
- full stop [.] ~5350
- question mark [?] 257
- exclamation mark [!] 11
- ellipsis [ . . . ] 83
- en dash* [–] 476
- parentheses [()] 21 pairs
- comma [,] ~6540
- colon [:] 183
- semicolon [;] 251
*UK pub!
no but let's make this a thing
Convincing you to read PAINTED FLOCK (99k) based on the punctuation I used in it
- period [.] 5984
- question mark [?] 540
- exclamation point [!] 98
- ellipsis [ . . . ] 207
- em dash [—] 472
- parentheses [()] 0
- comma [,] 6436
- colon [:] 79
- semicolon [;] 62
Convincing you to read PAINTED FLOCK (99k) based on the punctuation I used in it
- period [.] 5984
- question mark [?] 540
- exclamation point [!] 98
- ellipsis [ . . . ] 207
- em dash [—] 472
- parentheses [()] 0
- comma [,] 6436
- colon [:] 79
- semicolon [;] 62
convincing you to read THE LORD OF THE WOOD based on the punctuation I used in it
- period [.] 11,550
- question mark [?] 784
- exclamation point [!] 110
- ellipsis [ . . . ] 241
- em dash [—] 700
- parentheses [()] 51 pairs
- comma [,] 8,281
- colon [:] 73
- semicolon [;] 216
- period [.] 11,550
- question mark [?] 784
- exclamation point [!] 110
- ellipsis [ . . . ] 241
- em dash [—] 700
- parentheses [()] 51 pairs
- comma [,] 8,281
- colon [:] 73
- semicolon [;] 216
January 20, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Convincing you to read THE WOLF AND HIS KING (90k) based on the punctuation I used in it:
- full stop [.] ~5350
- question mark [?] 257
- exclamation mark [!] 11
- ellipsis [ . . . ] 83
- en dash* [–] 476
- parentheses [()] 21 pairs
- comma [,] ~6540
- colon [:] 183
- semicolon [;] 251
*UK pub!
- full stop [.] ~5350
- question mark [?] 257
- exclamation mark [!] 11
- ellipsis [ . . . ] 83
- en dash* [–] 476
- parentheses [()] 21 pairs
- comma [,] ~6540
- colon [:] 183
- semicolon [;] 251
*UK pub!
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It's a weird time to be trying to release a book in the US for the first time, but I guess we all need some medieval werewolves and queer yearning amidst The Horrors? Anyway, it's only a week until THE WOLF AND HIS KING comes out in North America, and the NA edition is VERY pretty:
January 20, 2026 at 3:27 PM
It's a weird time to be trying to release a book in the US for the first time, but I guess we all need some medieval werewolves and queer yearning amidst The Horrors? Anyway, it's only a week until THE WOLF AND HIS KING comes out in North America, and the NA edition is VERY pretty:
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Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to £6,600 per year this way.
For context: I published my 15th book last year. The advance I received for it was considerably less than £6,600.
For context: I published my 15th book last year. The advance I received for it was considerably less than £6,600.
Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.
January 20, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to £6,600 per year this way.
For context: I published my 15th book last year. The advance I received for it was considerably less than £6,600.
For context: I published my 15th book last year. The advance I received for it was considerably less than £6,600.
It's a weird time to be trying to release a book in the US for the first time, but I guess we all need some medieval werewolves and queer yearning amidst The Horrors? Anyway, it's only a week until THE WOLF AND HIS KING comes out in North America, and the NA edition is VERY pretty:
January 20, 2026 at 3:27 PM
It's a weird time to be trying to release a book in the US for the first time, but I guess we all need some medieval werewolves and queer yearning amidst The Horrors? Anyway, it's only a week until THE WOLF AND HIS KING comes out in North America, and the NA edition is VERY pretty:
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stock photo of an article attempting to explain the textual history of a very complicated work with multiple branches of transmission without giving a stemma
January 20, 2026 at 2:28 PM
stock photo of an article attempting to explain the textual history of a very complicated work with multiple branches of transmission without giving a stemma
The flat closest to mine has been empty since I moved in and it's been being renovated over the last couple of months. I'm very nosy, so every time I walk past I take a peek at how it's going. Devastated to report that today's progress was to put privacy film on the windows :')
January 20, 2026 at 2:08 PM
The flat closest to mine has been empty since I moved in and it's been being renovated over the last couple of months. I'm very nosy, so every time I walk past I take a peek at how it's going. Devastated to report that today's progress was to put privacy film on the windows :')
New shelf for the plant friends
January 20, 2026 at 12:40 PM
New shelf for the plant friends
In awe of people who actually manage to change their email address. It's been six years since I legally changed my name and longer since I socially changed it and I'm still maintaining email addresses in the old one because they've got accounts linked to them I can't detach, somehow.
January 20, 2026 at 9:05 AM
In awe of people who actually manage to change their email address. It's been six years since I legally changed my name and longer since I socially changed it and I'm still maintaining email addresses in the old one because they've got accounts linked to them I can't detach, somehow.
Might have done my tax return! But I'm scared of it so I'm not going to submit it until I've had time to look at the maths again another day, possibly with backup. 👍
January 19, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Might have done my tax return! But I'm scared of it so I'm not going to submit it until I've had time to look at the maths again another day, possibly with backup. 👍
Okay I'm actually doing my taxes now and boy I wish past me had written down whether I gift aided literally any of these charitable donations because there are quite a few of them and I have absolutely no idea
January 19, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Okay I'm actually doing my taxes now and boy I wish past me had written down whether I gift aided literally any of these charitable donations because there are quite a few of them and I have absolutely no idea
It's slightly painful and slow-going, but on the other hand, I was meant to be doing my taxes today, so now this document is nearly 10k.
Started my rewrite today so the 113k that was supposed to be line-edits and handed in a week or so ago is now... 5.5k in a new document. I mean it looks fairly similar to the first 5.5k of the old document. But not the same. Otherwise it would not be in a new document.
January 19, 2026 at 1:56 PM
It's slightly painful and slow-going, but on the other hand, I was meant to be doing my taxes today, so now this document is nearly 10k.
Started my rewrite today so the 113k that was supposed to be line-edits and handed in a week or so ago is now... 5.5k in a new document. I mean it looks fairly similar to the first 5.5k of the old document. But not the same. Otherwise it would not be in a new document.
January 18, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Started my rewrite today so the 113k that was supposed to be line-edits and handed in a week or so ago is now... 5.5k in a new document. I mean it looks fairly similar to the first 5.5k of the old document. But not the same. Otherwise it would not be in a new document.
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I genuinely need help sourcing pictures of pigeons. If you have some on your phone and are willing to share please send to me!
January 18, 2026 at 7:07 PM
I genuinely need help sourcing pictures of pigeons. If you have some on your phone and are willing to share please send to me!
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Weaving and crafts community: we have a loom that needs saving. It's beautiful and looks to be in great shape.
Please share to all Irish crafts people.
#Speirgorm #crafts #weaving #loom #Ireland
Please share to all Irish crafts people.
#Speirgorm #crafts #weaving #loom #Ireland
January 18, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Weaving and crafts community: we have a loom that needs saving. It's beautiful and looks to be in great shape.
Please share to all Irish crafts people.
#Speirgorm #crafts #weaving #loom #Ireland
Please share to all Irish crafts people.
#Speirgorm #crafts #weaving #loom #Ireland
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Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
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Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
1/
January 17, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
1/
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
1/
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Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results
https://voteyesornoai.com
https://voteyesornoai.com
Are you YES AI or NO AI? Vote now.
Big Tech doesn't care if you want AI or not. They should.
voteyesornoai.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Duckduckgo has a survey for pro/anti-AI and I cackled so hard at the (current) results
https://voteyesornoai.com
https://voteyesornoai.com
Brought to you by using it without thinking about it: if you ever see me say "whatever floats your goat", it's not autocorrect, it was on purpose, but it was an in-joke probably 10+ years ago and I can't for the life of me remember how it started so at this point it's pure habit 😆
January 16, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Brought to you by using it without thinking about it: if you ever see me say "whatever floats your goat", it's not autocorrect, it was on purpose, but it was an in-joke probably 10+ years ago and I can't for the life of me remember how it started so at this point it's pure habit 😆
I know this is what I get for living in a city that's very old and famous and therefore people like to set books in it. The area I grew up in, on the other hand, gets way fewer books set in it, and therefore if people do write about it, they're probably from there 😆 I think I've seen it once.
This is such a common reason for me to DNF books. I get so mad at them. I often don't know they're set in Cambridge until I start, otherwise I wouldn't start. Really infuriating are the ones written by people who HAVE lived here and should know better, and yet write about it like they haven't.
January 16, 2026 at 6:08 PM
I know this is what I get for living in a city that's very old and famous and therefore people like to set books in it. The area I grew up in, on the other hand, gets way fewer books set in it, and therefore if people do write about it, they're probably from there 😆 I think I've seen it once.
An interesting and thought-provoking time at the Creative Medievalisms symposium the last couple of days! Managed to give away five of my author copies of The Wolf And His King also at the end there, to readers who I hope will enjoy it on a deeply medieval level :)
January 16, 2026 at 5:06 PM
An interesting and thought-provoking time at the Creative Medievalisms symposium the last couple of days! Managed to give away five of my author copies of The Wolf And His King also at the end there, to readers who I hope will enjoy it on a deeply medieval level :)
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I am reliably informed that this episode mentions my article exploring transmasculine readings of Cú Chulainn!
Listeners might also be interested in my recent article looking queerly at Cú Chulainn's relationships with Fer Diad, Láeg and Emer: journal.fi/scf/article/...
Listeners might also be interested in my recent article looking queerly at Cú Chulainn's relationships with Fer Diad, Láeg and Emer: journal.fi/scf/article/...
January 15, 2026 at 6:16 PM
I am reliably informed that this episode mentions my article exploring transmasculine readings of Cú Chulainn!
Listeners might also be interested in my recent article looking queerly at Cú Chulainn's relationships with Fer Diad, Láeg and Emer: journal.fi/scf/article/...
Listeners might also be interested in my recent article looking queerly at Cú Chulainn's relationships with Fer Diad, Láeg and Emer: journal.fi/scf/article/...
At the Creative Medievalisms symposium in Cambridge today there was a fair bit of discussion of what you do and don't have control over when you write for the public, as an academic, and how your work gets marketed or framed. I've been thinking about this a ton with The Wolf and His King...
January 15, 2026 at 8:05 PM
At the Creative Medievalisms symposium in Cambridge today there was a fair bit of discussion of what you do and don't have control over when you write for the public, as an academic, and how your work gets marketed or framed. I've been thinking about this a ton with The Wolf and His King...
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Is your January missing some queer medieval werewolf chat? 👑🐺
Fix that by coming along to Waterstones Cambridge on the 28th for an evening with author and historian @finnlongman.com, where they'll be talking about their new book The Wolf and His King!
💙📚🪐
#NewBooks
#Folklore
Fix that by coming along to Waterstones Cambridge on the 28th for an evening with author and historian @finnlongman.com, where they'll be talking about their new book The Wolf and His King!
💙📚🪐
#NewBooks
#Folklore
January 15, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Is your January missing some queer medieval werewolf chat? 👑🐺
Fix that by coming along to Waterstones Cambridge on the 28th for an evening with author and historian @finnlongman.com, where they'll be talking about their new book The Wolf and His King!
💙📚🪐
#NewBooks
#Folklore
Fix that by coming along to Waterstones Cambridge on the 28th for an evening with author and historian @finnlongman.com, where they'll be talking about their new book The Wolf and His King!
💙📚🪐
#NewBooks
#Folklore
I love when an editor sends you someone else's article from the volume you're both in because you're working on related topics and you discover that you could've worded your tentative theory a bit more strongly because they've just given you 4 pages of evidence to confirm that yes, you're correct.
January 15, 2026 at 6:55 PM
I love when an editor sends you someone else's article from the volume you're both in because you're working on related topics and you discover that you could've worded your tentative theory a bit more strongly because they've just given you 4 pages of evidence to confirm that yes, you're correct.
I am reliably informed that this episode mentions my article exploring transmasculine readings of Cú Chulainn!
Listeners might also be interested in my recent article looking queerly at Cú Chulainn's relationships with Fer Diad, Láeg and Emer: journal.fi/scf/article/...
Listeners might also be interested in my recent article looking queerly at Cú Chulainn's relationships with Fer Diad, Láeg and Emer: journal.fi/scf/article/...
January 15, 2026 at 6:16 PM
I am reliably informed that this episode mentions my article exploring transmasculine readings of Cú Chulainn!
Listeners might also be interested in my recent article looking queerly at Cú Chulainn's relationships with Fer Diad, Láeg and Emer: journal.fi/scf/article/...
Listeners might also be interested in my recent article looking queerly at Cú Chulainn's relationships with Fer Diad, Láeg and Emer: journal.fi/scf/article/...
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A reminder that I am doing an event in CAMBRIDGE (England variety) (Cambridgeshire variety) in a couple of weeks, and you should come to it. Bring your friends! I will have my weird little guy stamp!
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
An Evening with Finn Longman | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An Evening with Finn Longman today.
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January 15, 2026 at 10:44 AM
A reminder that I am doing an event in CAMBRIDGE (England variety) (Cambridgeshire variety) in a couple of weeks, and you should come to it. Bring your friends! I will have my weird little guy stamp!
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...