


Ruth Frances Long
Represented By: Sallyanne Sweeney
Ruth Frances Long / Jessica Thorne writes romance and fantasy from the heart which often strays into weird and wonderful liminal places. She works in a specialized library of rare & occasionally crazy books.
As Ruth Frances Long she writes young adult fantasy, often about scary fairies. In 2015 she won the European Science Fiction Society Spirit of Dedication Award for Best Author of Children’s Science Fiction and Fantasy. The Book of Gold, the first book in her Feral Gods series, was selected for the 2024 Locus Recommended reading list.
As Jessica Thorne she writes adult fantasy women’s fiction, which wanders from Space Opera to time travel to epic fantasy. The Stone’s Heart was nominated for the 2020 Romantic Novelists’ Association Romantic Fantasy novel.
Represented By: Sallyanne Sweeney
Ruth Frances Long / Jessica Thorne writes romance and fantasy from the heart which often strays into weird and wonderful liminal places. She works in a specialized library of rare & occasionally crazy books.
As Ruth Frances Long she writes young adult fantasy, often about scary fairies. In 2015 she won the European Science Fiction Society Spirit of Dedication Award for Best Author of Children’s Science Fiction and Fantasy. The Book of Gold, the first book in her Feral Gods series, was selected for the 2024 Locus Recommended reading list.
As Jessica Thorne she writes adult fantasy women’s fiction, which wanders from Space Opera to time travel to epic fantasy. The Stone’s Heart was nominated for the 2020 Romantic Novelists’ Association Romantic Fantasy novel.
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