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Ruth Frances Long / Jessica Thorne
@rflong.bsky.social
Author, Librarian, general book nerd, SFF, Irish, she/her

(pretty much always a library in my books)

http://www.rflong.com/
The Book of Gold out now: lnk.to/thebookofgold
Jessica Thorne: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Jessica-Thorne/author/B07KRHB3HR
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COVER REVEAL for the 2nd #FeralGods book, THE LORE OF SILVER, sequel to THE BOOK OF GOLD. Artwork by the incredible @micaelaalcaino.bsky.social

Are you ready to go back to Amberes?

A Stolen Relic. A Missing Girl. A Horror Unleashed...

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@hodderscape.bsky.social
Get 20% off the special Goldsboro edition of The Lore of Silver this weekend. Use the code Book-Friday25 before pumpkin time on the 1st!

It's a truly beautiful collector's edition.

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@goldsborobooks.bsky.social
@hodderscape.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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The WINNER of the 2025 @specsaversie.bsky.social Children’s Book of the Year - Junior is...

Run Home, Little Fox, Tom McCaughren & @erikamcgann.bsky.social, Illustrated by @shannonbergin.bsky.social (@theobrienpress.bsky.social)

#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs
November 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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The WINNER of the 2025 @Hodges_Figgis History Book of the Year is...

Great Irish Wives, @nicolapierce.bsky.social (@theobrienpress.bsky.social)

#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Signing The Lore of Silver (& The Book of Gold, & even a copy or two of A Crack in Everything) in a few more local shops - Dubray Dundrum & Rathmines and Easons Dundrum. Thanks so much to the booksellers!
November 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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This BBC kids tv advert from 1998 is still very impressive and very lovely
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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A form of intellectual cuckoldry so extreme it's like a new kind of biblical sin. A deep insult to the very act of existence.
not beating the “AI art is lazy” allegations
November 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Wildewood, my Irish gothic romance as Jessica Thorne, is now up on Netgalley to request.

ow.ly/w79g50XwLw3
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Finished Tasha Suri's The Isle in the Silver Sea (2nd book I've read about characters taking over their own stories this month).. Next book is @rflong.bsky.social's The Lore of Silver (sequel to Book of Gold)..

Been on a real reading kick lately and I'm loving it.
November 22, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Running around signing as many books as I can today in @dubraybooks.bsky.social Bray (our local), Dun Laoghaire and Blackrock (thanks Brian!) and Easons Dun Laoghaire! We have such great booksellers and lovely book shops!

@hodderscape.bsky.social #hachetteireland #feralgods #speirgorm #booksky📚💙
November 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Out and about today signing copies of The Lore of Silver & the paperback of The Book of Gold in Dublin bookshops. And sneaking in some character art cards for lucky buyers. There are 10 different designs. Let me know who you find?
November 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
A few more photos from the launch of The Lore of Silver last night
November 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Reposting for #speirgorm and #BookSky.
Yesterday evening marked the launch of @rflong.bsky.social's "The Lore of Silver" hosted by the @gutterbookshop.bsky.social)! Ruth was interviewed by @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social about how the series came into being and intrigued us all. There are bodies, you should buy this book!
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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I'm terribly sorry to have missed the launch but I've read the book and it's SO GOOD!
Yesterday evening marked the launch of @rflong.bsky.social's "The Lore of Silver" hosted by the @gutterbookshop.bsky.social)! Ruth was interviewed by @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social about how the series came into being and intrigued us all. There are bodies, you should buy this book!
November 21, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Yesterday evening marked the launch of @rflong.bsky.social's "The Lore of Silver" hosted by the @gutterbookshop.bsky.social)! Ruth was interviewed by @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social about how the series came into being and intrigued us all. There are bodies, you should buy this book!
November 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. Since 31st October 2024, at least 340 trans people have lost their lives to anti-trans violence, or suicide. Transphobia kills. Please be an ally every day. tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports?from...
Remembering Our Dead - Reports
1 Nov 2024 to 20 Nov 2025
tdor.translivesmatter.info
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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The fae want you to *think* they're open source. But you never actually read the licence, did you?
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
To Amberes city of lost gods all things return. The Lore of Silver is out today from @hodderscape.bsky.social

And join @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social and I at @gutterbookshop.bsky.social Dublin tonight to celebrate the launch with cake and shenanigans!
#FeralGods #speirgorm #booksky📚💙
November 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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I've had a few 'what do you do' convs recently, and everyone on hearing I'm an author comes out with "so how do you come up with ideas?", just like every book or movie about a writer has them staring numbly into space because they don't have an idea for the next book. And look, that is Not It.
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Two days until The Lore of Silver is out in the wild. If you see it send me a photo #feralgods #inthewild

"A storming adventure, full of characters you can root for and twists and turns a plenty! The best kind of fantasy inspired fast ride." 5* Netgalley review

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November 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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People who dismiss e-books or audiobooks as being somehow less worthy or less meaningful than physical books are missing the point of books. Books are not ink and paper, just as human beings are not defined by their physicality. Books are connections; emotions; ideas; just like their creators.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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every author in the class action, please file the claim.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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My almost eleven year old wants to have a magical/wizard themed birthday party this Saturday and so I made him this wand for candy balloon darts. 1/3
November 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM