Ruth Frances Long's Blog, page 24
April 17, 2012
Oh my….
I saw the final jacket for The Treachery of Beautiful Things today. It’s so beautiful. Will share as soon as I know I can. In other news for those of you in the US, there’s a goodreads giveaway of Treachery going on at the moment. And I’ll be doing another giveaway somewhere soon. In the [...]
April 6, 2012
Psst wanna win an ARC of The Treachery of Beautiful Things?
I've a guestpost up on The Book Pushers today, as part of their Fantasy Appreciation Week, on fairytales in modern fantasy – Fairytales in a modern dress. And if that's not lure enough… oh all right, you can enter to win an author review copy of The Treachery of Beautiful Things! The giveaway ends on [...]
April 4, 2012
Interview at Open Book Society
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.
April 2, 2012
Fantasy Appreciation Week at the Book Pushers
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.
March 24, 2012
Reviewyness
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 [...]
March 15, 2012
The Patchwork Cat presents…
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 [...]
March 2, 2012
Guestblog: Kate goes to the RoNas
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 [...]
March 1, 2012
The Treachery of Beautiful Things Exclusive
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 [...]
February 29, 2012
Live Chat Giveaway tonight
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
February 28, 2012
TTOBT Livechat
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 [...]
