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
Books
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
We've officially passed my minimum threshold for worrying about numbers, so I'm no longer concerned that it'll be half empty if a few people drop out!
Instead I'm worried that there won't be enough cakes, because I only have a finite number of toppers. I'll make some plain ones as well I suppose.
Instead I'm worried that there won't be enough cakes, because I only have a finite number of toppers. I'll make some plain ones as well I suppose.
The mortifying ordeal of trying to get people to RSVP to your book launch is hitting hard today 😅 I know a lot of people leave it to the last minute to confirm, but I do actually need to know how many cakes and books we need!
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
We've officially passed my minimum threshold for worrying about numbers, so I'm no longer concerned that it'll be half empty if a few people drop out!
Instead I'm worried that there won't be enough cakes, because I only have a finite number of toppers. I'll make some plain ones as well I suppose.
Instead I'm worried that there won't be enough cakes, because I only have a finite number of toppers. I'll make some plain ones as well I suppose.
This review might be MY newest favourite thing... perhaps I shall stick it on my wall
Out this week in the UK & January in the US, 🐺 THE WOLF AND HIS KING👑 by @finnlongman.com is my newest favorite thing and you need to read it!
🐺🦽 lycanthropy as a metaphor for chronic illness
✒️ 3rd person, 2nd person, VERSE
🏳️🌈 uncompicatedly queer
👑every bit as gorgeous as its cover
🐺🦽 lycanthropy as a metaphor for chronic illness
✒️ 3rd person, 2nd person, VERSE
🏳️🌈 uncompicatedly queer
👑every bit as gorgeous as its cover
Silken Symbolism: The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman
Retelling the poem Bisclavret, but making it queer and disabled and EVEN MORE AWESOME.
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
This review might be MY newest favourite thing... perhaps I shall stick it on my wall
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New level of the AI marketing spam emails: my (non-author) friends are now receiving them about my books?? Despite their names and email addresses being entirely unlike mine? Utterly mystifying.
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
New level of the AI marketing spam emails: my (non-author) friends are now receiving them about my books?? Despite their names and email addresses being entirely unlike mine? Utterly mystifying.
New level of the AI marketing spam emails: my (non-author) friends are now receiving them about my books?? Despite their names and email addresses being entirely unlike mine? Utterly mystifying.
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
New level of the AI marketing spam emails: my (non-author) friends are now receiving them about my books?? Despite their names and email addresses being entirely unlike mine? Utterly mystifying.
My former medieval French lecturer is doing the Q&A with me at my launch, so I gave her the book to read early. I've been SO nervous to know what she thinks -- but she loved it. I'm so relieved. Waiting to hear what colleagues and fellow medievalists would think of it has been very stressful!
November 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
My former medieval French lecturer is doing the Q&A with me at my launch, so I gave her the book to read early. I've been SO nervous to know what she thinks -- but she loved it. I'm so relieved. Waiting to hear what colleagues and fellow medievalists would think of it has been very stressful!
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Somebody I co-wrote a blog with in 2013 and have basically not spoken to since accidentally added part of their schedule to the shared calendar that somehow still syncs with my old email address so. uh. Hope they're having a good time in Barcelona this week.
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Somebody I co-wrote a blog with in 2013 and have basically not spoken to since accidentally added part of their schedule to the shared calendar that somehow still syncs with my old email address so. uh. Hope they're having a good time in Barcelona this week.
Somebody I co-wrote a blog with in 2013 and have basically not spoken to since accidentally added part of their schedule to the shared calendar that somehow still syncs with my old email address so. uh. Hope they're having a good time in Barcelona this week.
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Somebody I co-wrote a blog with in 2013 and have basically not spoken to since accidentally added part of their schedule to the shared calendar that somehow still syncs with my old email address so. uh. Hope they're having a good time in Barcelona this week.
Got called a poof by some teenagers today. Gen A are really bringing back the vintage slurs...
November 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Got called a poof by some teenagers today. Gen A are really bringing back the vintage slurs...
Discovered this evening that there are three unopened bags of flour in my cupboard. One of them was dated 2020. Do you KNOW how many times I've moved house since 2020? There is absolutely no way that flour came with me through all of those moves. WHERE did it come from
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Discovered this evening that there are three unopened bags of flour in my cupboard. One of them was dated 2020. Do you KNOW how many times I've moved house since 2020? There is absolutely no way that flour came with me through all of those moves. WHERE did it come from
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3. Watching the waves turn to silver as the sun goes down.
November 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
3. Watching the waves turn to silver as the sun goes down.
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How your email finds me:
November 10, 2024 at 5:00 PM
How your email finds me:
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The three types of email I send:
• I know I was supposed to make words, but unfortunately I have not made words, because [explanation]
• I know I was only supposed to make a few words, but here are Many Words, I'm sorry, enjoy
• I have made many words, but they were the wrong words, sorry
• I know I was supposed to make words, but unfortunately I have not made words, because [explanation]
• I know I was only supposed to make a few words, but here are Many Words, I'm sorry, enjoy
• I have made many words, but they were the wrong words, sorry
November 10, 2024 at 4:54 PM
The three types of email I send:
• I know I was supposed to make words, but unfortunately I have not made words, because [explanation]
• I know I was only supposed to make a few words, but here are Many Words, I'm sorry, enjoy
• I have made many words, but they were the wrong words, sorry
• I know I was supposed to make words, but unfortunately I have not made words, because [explanation]
• I know I was only supposed to make a few words, but here are Many Words, I'm sorry, enjoy
• I have made many words, but they were the wrong words, sorry
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205. The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman. Fantasy. Loved this just as much as I expected to! Lycanthropy as metaphor for chronic pain/disability was so powerful and meant a lot to me; the sheer writing CRAFT on display here is so freaking impressive. (2nd person! 3rd person! Verse!) Instant fave!
November 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
205. The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman. Fantasy. Loved this just as much as I expected to! Lycanthropy as metaphor for chronic pain/disability was so powerful and meant a lot to me; the sheer writing CRAFT on display here is so freaking impressive. (2nd person! 3rd person! Verse!) Instant fave!
Nice little videos I found while clearing out my phone for the first time in a year or so: probably a thread
1. Small sheep friend in Donegal
1. Small sheep friend in Donegal
November 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Nice little videos I found while clearing out my phone for the first time in a year or so: probably a thread
1. Small sheep friend in Donegal
1. Small sheep friend in Donegal
Nothing tests my informal resolution to be less of a pedant on the internet than when I post 18th century manuscript initials on Tumblr and it gets tagged as "medieval marginalia". It's eighteenth century and it's in the main body of the text, it's neither of those things :(
November 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Nothing tests my informal resolution to be less of a pedant on the internet than when I post 18th century manuscript initials on Tumblr and it gets tagged as "medieval marginalia". It's eighteenth century and it's in the main body of the text, it's neither of those things :(
Thank you to Kathleen for this lovely Goodreads review of The Wolf and His King!
November 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Thank you to Kathleen for this lovely Goodreads review of The Wolf and His King!
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Off to Waterstones St. Andrews today for my first ever in-store signing of The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver. See you there, 2pm?
November 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Off to Waterstones St. Andrews today for my first ever in-store signing of The Shipwright and the Shroudweaver. See you there, 2pm?
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Woman in bar: I just don't get it. I've got a successful book club, with a cult following of 3000 who will read any book I recommend. I'm desperate to help my favourite authors build an audience, but everyone I contact tells me to fuck off!
Exiled Nigerian prince: [heavy sigh] Tell me about it.
Exiled Nigerian prince: [heavy sigh] Tell me about it.
November 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Woman in bar: I just don't get it. I've got a successful book club, with a cult following of 3000 who will read any book I recommend. I'm desperate to help my favourite authors build an audience, but everyone I contact tells me to fuck off!
Exiled Nigerian prince: [heavy sigh] Tell me about it.
Exiled Nigerian prince: [heavy sigh] Tell me about it.
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I am on a book hunt for
well written sex scenes between two men
written by a man
but I am coming up with the same 5 books I've already read, and tomb dust. how is this possible. (and no, I don't need a romance, I need devastating smut)
well written sex scenes between two men
written by a man
but I am coming up with the same 5 books I've already read, and tomb dust. how is this possible. (and no, I don't need a romance, I need devastating smut)
November 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I am on a book hunt for
well written sex scenes between two men
written by a man
but I am coming up with the same 5 books I've already read, and tomb dust. how is this possible. (and no, I don't need a romance, I need devastating smut)
well written sex scenes between two men
written by a man
but I am coming up with the same 5 books I've already read, and tomb dust. how is this possible. (and no, I don't need a romance, I need devastating smut)
You ever reread the 3.5 chapters you wrote of a novel back in 2021 and get consumed by the desire to write the rest of it, even though you have absolutely no time or brainpower to spare at present?
November 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM
You ever reread the 3.5 chapters you wrote of a novel back in 2021 and get consumed by the desire to write the rest of it, even though you have absolutely no time or brainpower to spare at present?
Apparently pre-orders of The Wolf and His King have started arriving! So if you pre-order now, you might just... get it straight away?
November 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Apparently pre-orders of The Wolf and His King have started arriving! So if you pre-order now, you might just... get it straight away?
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The @goldsborobooks.bsky.social edition of The Wolf and His King is definitely the prettiest!
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November 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The @goldsborobooks.bsky.social edition of The Wolf and His King is definitely the prettiest!
goldsborobooks.com/products/the...
goldsborobooks.com/products/the...
The @goldsborobooks.bsky.social edition of The Wolf and His King is definitely the prettiest!
goldsborobooks.com/products/the...
goldsborobooks.com/products/the...
November 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The @goldsborobooks.bsky.social edition of The Wolf and His King is definitely the prettiest!
goldsborobooks.com/products/the...
goldsborobooks.com/products/the...
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You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about
(RIA 23 M 25, Eoghan Ó Caoimh, 1684; NLI G 113, Uilliam Mac Cartáin, 1703)
(RIA 23 M 25, Eoghan Ó Caoimh, 1684; NLI G 113, Uilliam Mac Cartáin, 1703)
November 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about
(RIA 23 M 25, Eoghan Ó Caoimh, 1684; NLI G 113, Uilliam Mac Cartáin, 1703)
(RIA 23 M 25, Eoghan Ó Caoimh, 1684; NLI G 113, Uilliam Mac Cartáin, 1703)
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It’s transgender awareness week, so if you weren’t already aware, you are transgender
November 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
It’s transgender awareness week, so if you weren’t already aware, you are transgender