@rflong
Author, Librarian, general book nerd, SFF, Irish, she/her (pretty much always a library in my books) http://www.rflong.com/ Jessica Thorne: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Jessica-Thorne/author/B07KRHB3HR
Avebury stone circle with The Red Lion pub in the background
Avebury stone circle with Ruth/Jessica
Ruth/Jessica with Jeev/Rhoda
Avebury stone circle with crow about to take fight
We're still on our writing retreat but today @jeevanicharika.bsky.social and I had an adventure in Avebury (including haunted pub lunch)
“Super Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, ‘What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’ - Shigeru Miyamoto
Happy Mario day!
You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.
A foggy forest background with teaser text from BONE & BLOOD, reading: "There's something wrong in the forest. Can't you feel it?" Chloe curled her fingers around the branches, eyes half closed against the moonlight. "Something is hurt, or trapped, or lost." "The trees haven't told me anything," Yara replied sullenly, but she closed her eyes, too, reaching out with her feeling senses instead of her eyes. BONE & BLOOD is available at Amazon on March 12, 2026!
BONE & BLOOD, my retelling of Snow White, Rose Red, is out on March 12, 2026! Preorder now! :) #booksky #preorder #fairytales #romantasy #fantasy #sisters
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXFPLQW...
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
The Lore of Silver by Ruth Francis Long: Review by Liz Bourke locusmag.com/review/...
“Much like its predecessor, THE LORE OF SILVER is hectic and packed with incident...” @hawkwing_lb reviews new work from Ruth Frances Long
Free snacks, coffee and newspaper in the fancy lounge on the ferry.
Yeeeeeeesssssssss!
After some mini bus and coach shenanigans were on the ferry! Celebrations!
The gate has opened.
The people not on their mini bus may be murdered
Great excitement. A bus went by on the other side of the gate with people in it. Could be foot passengers. But no idea where it went. Another circle of hell?
The men in the coach beside me are frantically searching for a leather jacket someone has lost.
The gate has not opened.
#ferrybored
Everyone staring daggers at anyone who heads off to the loos now in case they're from a car ahead and will therefore block the queue until they come back.
The queue is not going anywhere.
The gate has not opened...
#ferrybored
Every so often an engine starts up and everyone gets very excited, looking to see if the gate has opened.
The gate has not opened.
It is possible we live here now
#bored #ferrybored
I've been reading. I've downloaded webtoon and read there too. I went and got a coffee from the machine. I found the loo. I have people watched all the people.
We are delayed. I found out when I was halfway here so no extra lie in for me. I think I have now been at the port longer than it took to drive here...
#bored
Thank you. I wish to get on the ferry!!!
I'm off on a writing retreat this week. Mostly so far this has involved sitting in a ferry port waiting to board the ferry.
#bored
Image fcontains text and covers if 3 books. Text reads. LOST QUEEN TRILOGY THE COMPLETE ROMANTIC FANTASY SERIES TOUCH OF SHADOWS JESSICA THORNE KISS OF FLAME JESSICA THORNE CROWN OF DARKNESS JESSICA THORNE
Did you know @rflong.bsky.social aka Jessica Thorne has #audiobooks?
Am settling in to listen and stitch. #fibreart #amreading
💙📚 #irishbooks #Irishwriter #speirgorm
I don't want to alarm anyone but
**whispers so as not to startle it**
I have a first draft of a new book
I mean, farmating is so important these days...
**backs away**
Oh Cethan, what a question. They're all bad.
Like demonic little imps but thicker and less cute
Same. This is why we can't have nice things aka A.I. turn everything to crap.
Yay!
VALENZIAGA has *very nearly* DOUBLED the initial funding goal in 12 hours!
Blown away! Thank you all again!
Keep spreading the word, keep pledging, let’s start seeing double!
Stretch Goals will be announced tomorrow, once I’ve had a chance to sleep! 😅
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...
I'm on Vit D all year round (on medical advice) here in Ireland.
AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal.
The court ruled that a work must have a human creator in order to qualify for copyright.
(Link: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...)
because I keep forgetting to mention it: LITERALLY ANYONE can nominate books for this prize! yes! that means you! you have until march 31st!
