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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
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
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.
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 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
November 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Lunch was nom!
November 8, 2025 at 2:33 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
November 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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
The fabulous @abeaumontbooks.bsky.social , in bronze age costume, launching her books Dissonance of Birdsong and Ballad of River Bones at
#WorldFantasyCon
October 31, 2025 at 1:13 PM
A little concerned about our train...
October 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
One more from last week's in Bournemouth with @amydelaforce.bsky.social and @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️
October 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I'm going to be at World Fantasy in Brighton next week and here's where to find me

@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Aww my favourite photo from the Bournemouth Romance Writing festival and the face I make when someone asks me to sign my books out of the blue. Happy writer.

(Great photos by @solidimagery.bsky.social )
October 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Trade paperbacks of my new book The Lore of Silver arrived so I brought it and The Book of Gold into the library (as is now traditional) to meet their grandparents, especially the Plantain Polyglot Bible which started it all.
#FeralGods #booksky💙📚 @hodderscape.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The secret is out. Are you ready to enter...

Wildewood

My Irish gothic romance is out in January and available to pre-order now

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@secondskybooks.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Wherever a book full of books arrives there is only one true winner

@hodderscape.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Unboxing the paperback copies of The Book of Gold. It contains the bonus story "Courting House Alvarez". Out November 20th (1 month to go!) #FeralGods @hodderscape.bsky.social

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October 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
A fabulous day at the Bournemouth Romance Writing Festival kicking things off with the Love & Magic panel, taking Romantasy with @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social & @amydelaforce.bsky.social So lovely to see Katie Fforde and @themillyjohnson.bsky.social honoured in the evening (Shameless photo theft)
October 20, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I'm at the airport on the way to the Bournemouth Romance Writing Festival, treating myself in the fancy lounge
October 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The Lore of Silver, the sequel to the alt-renaissance fantasy heist The Book of Gold, is up on Netgalley now and I have a few codes to share. If you're interested, DM me and I'll see what I can do.
October 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Yesterday, thanks to the lovely @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social Adiba Jaigirdar & I went to the Museum of Literature Ireland MoLI, & found our books in their exhibition Happy Ever After, Falling in Love with Irish Romance Fiction. An author dream unlocked! #DubhLinn #ACrackInEverything #TheHennaWars
October 14, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I survived the Bookbinding workshop at @octocon.bsky.social ! #Octocon25 (next time 2 hours!)
October 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
At @octocon.bsky.social with the fab @ctomahony.bsky.social who dressed as Lyta from The Book of Gold! 😍
#Octocon25 #FeralGods
October 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Yeah I spent the afternoon getting everything ready for the bookbinding workshop I'm giving on Saturday
October 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I'll also give a shout out to my beloved boys from The Book of Gold, Kit and Ben, whose story continues in The Lore of Silver

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Kit's one of the three pov characters throughout the series.
October 4, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Next weekend it's @octocon.bsky.social and here's what I'm going to be doing...

yes... that is a bookbinding workshop...

Come and join us - 2025.octocon.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Himself and myself are home sick with the dreaded C-lurgy so we needed something to occupy ourselves...

(As well as me writing and doing edits of course)
September 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM