Ruth Frances Long
Ruth Frances Long writes young adult fantasy such as The Treachery of Beautiful Things (Dial, 2012) and A Crack in Everything (O'Brien Press, 2014), the first in a trilogy set in the world of demons, angels and fairies that exists alongside our own in modern day Dublin, followed by A Hollow in the Hills (2015) and A Darkness at the End (2016).
As Jessica Thorne she writes Fantasy/Space Opera for Bookouture - The Queen's Wing (2018), The Stone's Heart (2019, nominated for the RNA Fantasy Romantic Award 2020), Mageborn (2020) and Nightborn (2020).
Winner of The European Science Fiction Society Spirit of Dedication Award For Best Author of Children's Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2015.
She lives in Ireland and works in a library of rare, unusual & occasionally crazy books.
Twitter: @RFLong
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She is represented by Sallyanne Sweeney of Mulcahy Associates, London.
“Even the things that showed him his path seemed to point at what a fool he was. Another of life's ironies? Or just fate's way of mocking him?”
“Jenny threw back her head and laughed, laughter that rang out through the leaves if the oak tree above them. Jack pulled her to him, to kiss her and whisper her name again. And the oak tree above them whispered back, of love and sacrifice, of a king and a queen, and a future made anew.”
“Beware a kiss, he told her. Kisses are powerful things. You expose part of your soul.”
“Kings were not patient. Not even the fallen kind.”