Ruth Frances Long / Jessica Thorne

A sugarcraft expert and a low-carb/keto baker must work together to cater a wedding. This could be a disaster, or love at first (food) fight.
THE WINNER BAKES IT ALL by Jeevani Charika.
Shorlisted for the RNA romantic comedy award 2025!
https://books2read.com/manbuns

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Oops that should have been repost. It definitely doesn't need reporting.

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To the whole "Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein should be required for anyone getting into sci-fi" (because I don't want to report or quote it, it's circulated widely enough already...)

FFS just read what you enjoy. Let others do the same. There's no reading list. We don't have to sit exams. Cop on.

Hi Jamedi, The Lore of Silver, the sequel to The Book of Gold, which you kindly reviewed last year, is out on the 20th November from Hodderscape, and as Jessica Thorne I have a Gothic romance called Wildewood coming out in January 2026.

Art work of a red haired woman in the arms of a dark haired man. Their eyes are glowing and they are surrounded by shadows. Art by Ruth Frances Long featuring Grace and Bastien from her novels Mageborn and Nightborn.

Grace and Bastien from #Mageborn and #Nightborn, #TheHollowKing duology, which will be out in print in the UK at the end of October! (And they're out in the US now). Also available on #Kindle, #KU, #Audible and POD.
@secondskybooks.bsky.social
#Romantasy #OCArt

www.amazon.co.uk/Mageborn-abs...

You never know where an open book will take you

Yeah sure let's say that

Look we're not saying the book ever tried to eat someone but...

Dropped type!

Nothing better than a printing disaster.

Oh Julie, that's awful. How upsetting.

A cute little Yorkie type dog smiling at the camera

Our smol fren came over for dinner and has been begging. @susanconnolly.bsky.social thought listening to us respond to her was funny:

You can tell she knows who means the no. Me, I just give her some. @rflong.bsky.social says no and then "oh all right." Catie just says no & fren gives up. 😂

“The ‘grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today”

#TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie

It is. We hope he will visit again.

No we had to let him go home

I should add I did lots of work, finished edits on one project and started proofs on another. I didn't just sit in the garden petting the dog. Honestly!

At the bottom of a garden path a small dog looks through the gates

Ruth sitting on the doorstep petting the small dog

Ruth sitting on the doorstep laughing with the small dog

At writing retreat, made a friend.

This is true. If anyone tries to take my emdashes, I'll stab them. With the emdashes.

Of course, more than happy. Love it!

Speaking of UK Kindle deals, here are 5 UK/IE Kindle copies of @djangowexler.bsky.social TWO EFFIN' HOOTS book, How To Become The Dark Lord And Die Trying. The 2nd & concluding book for this duology came out this year.

#KindleBookGIveaway #UKKindleBookGiveaway

I just snapped up a Kindle copy of @susanjmorris.bsky.social 's AMAZING Strange Beasts for only 99p and you should too.

Do I already own a copy of this beautiful book in hardback?
Yes. Yes I do.

Do I care?
Hahahahaha!

www.amazon.co.uk/Strange-Beas...

(Also @kithrup.bsky.social ?)

An AI generated cover of a dark romantasy book passing itself off as written by Sam Blake. Sam has added the text AI FAKE across the cover with explosive emojis

A screenshot of the title and blurb of an AI generated book passing itself off as written by Sam Blake. There are no reviews which is something of a relief

For anyone who got a notification that I've written a dark romantasy trilogy (this is book 1) - I haven't. Please don't buy any of them.

These books are AI generated &
Amazon should be removing them today.

For anyone who may have bought one, I hope you can get a refund from Amazon.

Omg what? That's awful.

With "writers" embracing the mediocrity of AI-produced slop, it's on us to fight back.

And by fight back I mean be feral in your writing, be deeply weird and vulnerable and obsessive and human.

Let the predictive text write its anodyne MoR bs.

Spill your wild and your strange onto the page.

A Saint looks up from his prayers to discover he’s been dead for some time For St Robert of Knaresborough By Jay Hulme - from 'The Vanishing Song' After he retired to the cave prayer grew in him like a forest, sowed its seeds inside his psyche, rewilded his heart. He didn’t see that centuries had passed without him. One day he looked up, hearing requests for intercession, and the woods were older than expected, the riverbanks shifted by the years — and as he knelt before the altar in his hermit's church, his knees disappeared below the edges of his emptied grave.

"After he retired to the cave
prayer grew in him like a forest,
sowed its seeds inside his psyche,
rewilded his heart. [...]"

oh wow 🥰 what a cover ! Back this Champaign, people, so we can read those wonderfully creepy stories !

it is 2010 and I am listening to arguments about whether social media helps sell books
it is 2015 and I am listening to arguments about whether social media helps sell books
it is 2020 and I am listening to arguments about whether social media helps sell books
it is 2025 and I am listening to argume

Oh yes, I've been there too! :D

Watercolour painting: an ancient, craggy beech stands in a forest, its bark flaking, its trunk bulging and coated with moss and lichen. Its original title is 'Deutsch Heilige Buche' - German Sacred Beech.

Aye, they say he protects the forest - mostly on the west side, you can see his face in the bark if you look close.

What if you hurt the forest? Well, he's not violent as such, but he'll be most disappointed in you.

#AskAFairySmith

Artist: Albert Koenig