Ruth Frances Long's Blog, page 24

There is an interview with me up at the Open Book Society website today – talking about writing, worldbuilding, & The Treachery of Beautiful Things Come along and say hello.

It's Fantasy Appreciation Week at the Book Pushers. I'll be there on Friday, talking about Fairytales and giving away an ARC of The Treachery of Beautiful Things… Just a little advance notice for you.

The Treachery of Beautiful Things has been getting some lovely reviews. Which makes me very happy. The paranoia of a writer (this writer anyway) is such that it doesn't matter that you write something, polish, have other people edit is, polish it, sell it etc. That all kind of pales when someone who doesn't HAVE [...]

Camouflage 101 The catflap arrived yesterday. It took a while to persuade the Patchwork cat to use it and not to (a) ignore it or (b) attack it. We may have succeeded. No one has seen the evidence as yet. However, he is getting into and out of the house without other doors and windows [...]

On Monday evening, the Romantic Novelists Association will be holding its awards ceremony and my friend, the extremely talented Kate Johnson, is a nominee for her fabulous alternate world fantasy adventure The Untied Kingdom. I read this last year and it's sensational. Best of luck, Kate. And best of luck to all the nominees. You're [...]

The Treachery of Beautiful Things comes out on the 16th August, 2012. Which, as some people have pointed out, is a very long time to go. 168 days according to Book Depository! I'd be hard pressed to wait that long. Sooooooo (We revealed it at the YALitChat livechat last night, but just in case you [...]

The Treachery of Beautiful Things is out in 169 days but you may not have to wait that long. #YALitChat (8pm GMT, 3PM EST) a giveaway, some screts, a reveal & more

Just a quick headsup to let people know that I'll be doing a twitter live chat with YALitChat tomorrow at 3pm EST (which is handily 8pm GMT over here). I'll be talking about The Treachery of Beautiful Things and we'll also be having a give away. There may even be a surprise (fingers crossed). So [...]

It's that time of year when suddenly everything jumps on me at once! Or maybe I need to learn to say "no" once in a while… Nah!!! So up and coming events are as follows: YALitChat Live Chat with ME!!!!  3pm EST (which is 8pm GMT) – 29th Feb, I'll be talking about The Treachery [...]

Thought I would share two pretty images I came across today – just small examples of the wonderful detials you can find in old books. The initials are illustrated with different animals (S=snake, P=Pig, C=Crane) but for the letter I the illustator added imaginary creatures – in these cases a multi-headed dragon and a griffin. [...]