Ruth Frances Long's Blog, page 19

It’s 42 days until the paperback release of The Treachery of Beautiful Things. 42, such an awesome number! To celebrate I made a thing again. It’s rather pretty. You can help me spread the word by sharing.   You can pre-order a copy online from all sorts of places like Indiebound, Book Depository & Amazon [...]

So this is going to be a very quick post. My laptop is in being repaired (you have no idea how much chaos the loss of use of the C and V key caused in my life!), and I am using the netbook which needless to say with its tiny tiny keyboard I find difficult [...]

So Nicole Lily has won a copy of The Treachery of Beautiful Things. Congratulations Nicole. There’s a great selection of tales in those comments. Everyone should give them a read. So many ideas popping about in my head right now like the demented plotbunnies they are and here I am meant to be taking a [...]

The cover of The Treachery of Beautiful Things by the very talented Danielle Delaney, is a contender in the Cover Contest 2012 at Cover Cafe. It’s in the Alternate Reality section and up against some stiff competition, so I’d really appreciate your votes! Isn’t it lovely. Still takes my breath away. And don’t forget that [...]

  May 1st is the feast of Bealtaine, or May Day, an ancient seasonal festival signally the beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere, a time of fires and fertility rites. It is the day of the May Queen, the mythical figure who presages the arrival of summer and an important element in my novel [...]

Very excited today as I came across this list of Best Fantasy/Science Fiction YA Books for Adults (that you may not have read) including The Treachery of Beautiful Things. Check it out! Happy-making. And now back to edits I go…

I made a thing. The base image came free from Dreamstime.com and I thought it fitted with the quote from The Treachery of Beautiful Things. I’m using Paint.net, which isn’t too difficult to pick up. Takes a little bit of trial and error but it’s intuitive enough (or at least I could make it work [...]

We were back in Marlay Park yesterday in search of the fairy tree. Spring has well and truly arrived and the fairies appear to have been hard at work expanding their treetop fortress. Last week I finished the first draft on a new WIP, a timeslip story which is making me squee quite a bit [...]

So excited to post this – a fan-made book trailer by Emma Danziger for The Treachery of Beautiful Things I will squee and squee and do the dance of a happy author. Lovely images, lovely music. Thanks so much Emma YouTube  

Happy World Book Day to one and all! And I also have a lovely bit of news to share — I am now represented by Sallyanne Sweeney of Watson, Little Ltd in London. More excitement is clearly to follow.