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
(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
Are you ready to go back to Amberes?
A Stolen Relic. A Missing Girl. A Horror Unleashed...
hodderscape.co.uk/products/the...
@hodderscape.bsky.social
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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
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
The UK print editions of my Jessica Thorne books Mageborn and Nightborn, The Hollow King duology, are out today. Let me know if you see them in the wild.
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The UK print editions of my Jessica Thorne books Mageborn and Nightborn, The Hollow King duology, are out today. Let me know if you see them in the wild.
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When do archivists wear white cotton gloves?
✅ When handling photographs because the acids & oils on your skin can damage the emulsion (surface layer) of photographs.
❌ Not when handling all other kinds of paper because you lose dexterity and are more likely fumble and tear a page.
✅ When handling photographs because the acids & oils on your skin can damage the emulsion (surface layer) of photographs.
❌ Not when handling all other kinds of paper because you lose dexterity and are more likely fumble and tear a page.
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
When do archivists wear white cotton gloves?
✅ When handling photographs because the acids & oils on your skin can damage the emulsion (surface layer) of photographs.
❌ Not when handling all other kinds of paper because you lose dexterity and are more likely fumble and tear a page.
✅ When handling photographs because the acids & oils on your skin can damage the emulsion (surface layer) of photographs.
❌ Not when handling all other kinds of paper because you lose dexterity and are more likely fumble and tear a page.
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I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
Getting book scam emails now for books that aren't even out yet. Delighted Wildewood blew you away, strange little A.I. thingy but you can't have read it yet. ARCs don't exist yet. The Lore of Silver doesn't have reviews on Amazon yet because it isn't out until next week. I'm so tired of it.
November 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Getting book scam emails now for books that aren't even out yet. Delighted Wildewood blew you away, strange little A.I. thingy but you can't have read it yet. ARCs don't exist yet. The Lore of Silver doesn't have reviews on Amazon yet because it isn't out until next week. I'm so tired of it.
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‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’
It was originally ‘ekename.’
‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”
Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.
Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'
It was originally ‘ekename.’
‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”
Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.
Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’
It was originally ‘ekename.’
‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”
Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.
Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'
It was originally ‘ekename.’
‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.”
Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it.
Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'
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I have a review in the works! :)
The Lore of Silver is up on Netgalley. Request your copy now.
✨🗡️A STOLEN RELIC. A MISSING GIRL. A HORROR UNLEASHED.🗡️✨
Catch up with Lyta and co b in the sequel to The Book of Gold.
www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
✨🗡️A STOLEN RELIC. A MISSING GIRL. A HORROR UNLEASHED.🗡️✨
Catch up with Lyta and co b in the sequel to The Book of Gold.
www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
The Lore of Silver
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
www.netgalley.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I have a review in the works! :)
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The Lore of Silver is up on Netgalley. Request your copy now.
✨🗡️A STOLEN RELIC. A MISSING GIRL. A HORROR UNLEASHED.🗡️✨
Catch up with Lyta and co b in the sequel to The Book of Gold.
www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
✨🗡️A STOLEN RELIC. A MISSING GIRL. A HORROR UNLEASHED.🗡️✨
Catch up with Lyta and co b in the sequel to The Book of Gold.
www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
The Lore of Silver
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
www.netgalley.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The Lore of Silver is up on Netgalley. Request your copy now.
✨🗡️A STOLEN RELIC. A MISSING GIRL. A HORROR UNLEASHED.🗡️✨
Catch up with Lyta and co b in the sequel to The Book of Gold.
www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
✨🗡️A STOLEN RELIC. A MISSING GIRL. A HORROR UNLEASHED.🗡️✨
Catch up with Lyta and co b in the sequel to The Book of Gold.
www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
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It’s today! 13 months after I started writing it, Daughters of Nicnevin is out in the world! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/daug...
Daughters of Nicnevin
Check out Daughters of Nicnevin - <p>Mairead and Constance, two powerful witches, meet in the early days of the 1745 Jacobite uprising. While the men of the village are away fighting, the villagers fa...
uk.bookshop.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
It’s today! 13 months after I started writing it, Daughters of Nicnevin is out in the world! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/daug...
You're invited to the launch of The Lore of Silver on Thursday 20th November at 6.30pm in the @gutterbookshop.bsky.social Cow's lane, Dublin 2, now with added @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social
There will be cake. And shenanigans.
There will be cake. And shenanigans.
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
You're invited to the launch of The Lore of Silver on Thursday 20th November at 6.30pm in the @gutterbookshop.bsky.social Cow's lane, Dublin 2, now with added @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social
There will be cake. And shenanigans.
There will be cake. And shenanigans.
I've run out of space on my "me" shelves! (There's another for hardbacks 😂).
UK print run copies of Mageborn and Nightborn have arrived and they are GORGEOUS 🥰 In bookshops on Thursday!
@secondskybooks.bsky.social
UK print run copies of Mageborn and Nightborn have arrived and they are GORGEOUS 🥰 In bookshops on Thursday!
@secondskybooks.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I've run out of space on my "me" shelves! (There's another for hardbacks 😂).
UK print run copies of Mageborn and Nightborn have arrived and they are GORGEOUS 🥰 In bookshops on Thursday!
@secondskybooks.bsky.social
UK print run copies of Mageborn and Nightborn have arrived and they are GORGEOUS 🥰 In bookshops on Thursday!
@secondskybooks.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Lunch was nom!
November 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Lunch was nom!
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World: “This fellow is deathly pale!”
Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”
Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”
My favourite Hiberno-English-ism isn't any of the obvious ones, it's the fact that when we say "sallow" we mean the opposite of what everyone else means. It's not sickly yellow, it's healthy, positive
November 8, 2025 at 8:59 AM
World: “This fellow is deathly pale!”
Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”
Ireland: “Hey, check out the tan on yer man!”
Only 2 weeks to go!
You're all invited to the launch of The Lore of Silver, sequel to The Book of Gold, in the @gutterbookshop.bsky.social Cow's lane Dublin 2 on the 20th November at 6.30pm. All welcome. Please please please bring everyone you know!
There will be cake!
@hodderscape.bsky.social
You're all invited to the launch of The Lore of Silver, sequel to The Book of Gold, in the @gutterbookshop.bsky.social Cow's lane Dublin 2 on the 20th November at 6.30pm. All welcome. Please please please bring everyone you know!
There will be cake!
@hodderscape.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Only 2 weeks to go!
You're all invited to the launch of The Lore of Silver, sequel to The Book of Gold, in the @gutterbookshop.bsky.social Cow's lane Dublin 2 on the 20th November at 6.30pm. All welcome. Please please please bring everyone you know!
There will be cake!
@hodderscape.bsky.social
You're all invited to the launch of The Lore of Silver, sequel to The Book of Gold, in the @gutterbookshop.bsky.social Cow's lane Dublin 2 on the 20th November at 6.30pm. All welcome. Please please please bring everyone you know!
There will be cake!
@hodderscape.bsky.social
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And here is the one book by an Irish author, Ruth Francis Long's The Lore of Silver, which I am looking forward to reading very much.
October 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
And here is the one book by an Irish author, Ruth Francis Long's The Lore of Silver, which I am looking forward to reading very much.
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Good morning. Let me show you some recently arrived review copies. I have put the definitely sapphic ones beside each other.
October 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Good morning. Let me show you some recently arrived review copies. I have put the definitely sapphic ones beside each other.
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So loss making OpenAI is now begging for US government money to finance its research based on unproven promises of riches to follow at some unspecified date. Is anyone else recalling renaissance alchemists persuading rich patrons to support them because they'd be turning lead into gold any day now?
November 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM
So loss making OpenAI is now begging for US government money to finance its research based on unproven promises of riches to follow at some unspecified date. Is anyone else recalling renaissance alchemists persuading rich patrons to support them because they'd be turning lead into gold any day now?
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If you've been waiting for the right time to jump into The Eidyn Saga, now's your moment! The Lost War is just 99p all through November on Amazon. It's a #Scottish #EpicFantasy #mystery #conspiracy #thriller found family road trip with a #DnD vibe and a twist. Go, go, go! #FantasyBooks
November 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
If you've been waiting for the right time to jump into The Eidyn Saga, now's your moment! The Lost War is just 99p all through November on Amazon. It's a #Scottish #EpicFantasy #mystery #conspiracy #thriller found family road trip with a #DnD vibe and a twist. Go, go, go! #FantasyBooks
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"Ich askid ChatGPT." Well *Ich* askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"Ich askid ChatGPT." Well *Ich* askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
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Day 2 at WFC. Time for some paranormal romance & romantasy: how did we get here? Do tropes matter? And what is the expected level of spice these days, anyway? Here’s @rflong.bsky.social @amydelaforce.bsky.social @nadiaelfassi.bsky.social @anniesummerlee.bsky.social & mod Sophie Jarrell.
November 1, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Day 2 at WFC. Time for some paranormal romance & romantasy: how did we get here? Do tropes matter? And what is the expected level of spice these days, anyway? Here’s @rflong.bsky.social @amydelaforce.bsky.social @nadiaelfassi.bsky.social @anniesummerlee.bsky.social & mod Sophie Jarrell.
This is not a drill! There are early release paperbacks of The Book of Gold at the @waterstones.bsky.social stall at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social . The paperback includes a bonus brand new short story "Courting House Alvarez". Only 5, all signed, with art cards. Get them now before they're gone!
November 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This is not a drill! There are early release paperbacks of The Book of Gold at the @waterstones.bsky.social stall at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social . The paperback includes a bonus brand new short story "Courting House Alvarez". Only 5, all signed, with art cards. Get them now before they're gone!
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this is out SO SOON! Tuesday! Do you have your preorder in? :)
NYC defense lawyer Margrit Knight thinks maybe she's found the perfect man - until he's revealed as a gargoyle, wanted for murder!
HEART OF STONE will be re-released in just a few days! Preorder now! <3 #booksky #romantasy #urbanfantasy
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD4MKZM...
HEART OF STONE will be re-released in just a few days! Preorder now! <3 #booksky #romantasy #urbanfantasy
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD4MKZM...
October 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
this is out SO SOON! Tuesday! Do you have your preorder in? :)
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Do you know LONG LIVE EVIL is a FINALIST? The awards are TOMORROW. Please wish me luck. It is an honour to be @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social slash @britfantasysoc.bsky.social and it’s going to be an honour to lose to one of my fine fellow finalists. Happy Halloween! #worldfantasy2025
October 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Do you know LONG LIVE EVIL is a FINALIST? The awards are TOMORROW. Please wish me luck. It is an honour to be @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social slash @britfantasysoc.bsky.social and it’s going to be an honour to lose to one of my fine fellow finalists. Happy Halloween! #worldfantasy2025