Contact at info (at) rflong (dot) com
Awards
Finalist for the Romantic Novelists’ Association Fantasy Romantic Novel Award 2020
Longlisted for the BSFA award for best novel 2024
Locus 2024 Recommended Reading List
Nominated for the European Science Fiction Society (ESFS) 2026 Hall of Fame Awards– Best Author.
Conventions & Appearances
I’m always delighted to attend conventions, conference and other events and to arrange talks and readings.
Metropolcon 2026, 2-5 July, Berlin (attending 4-5th July)
Waterstones Leeds, 9th July, 7pm Fantasy Panel – Storytelling: Order Out Of Chaos!
Octocon, Cork, 3rd-4th October
Interviews & Guestposts
British Fantasy Society – Meet the Members – Ruth Frances Long
The Book of Gold, Writing.ie, 28th November, 2024
Writing Longhand, Writing.ie, 18th Novemebr, 2024
Planning a Heist, Writing.ie, 11th November, 2024
Behind the Bestseller with Sam Blake, 14th February, 2020
Bookline with Teresa Quinn, 1st October, 2017
YA, romance, fantasy: RF Long’s much maligned influences, Irish Times, 1st December 2016
Author Interview on The Books, The Art and Me, 28th November 2016
Interview in The Gloss – Writer’s Block
Writing Fantastical Worlds by Ruth Frances Long and E. R. Murray, Writing.ie
Interview on Sleeps With Monsters, Tor.com
Interview on The Books, The Art and Me
Writing Longhand by Ruth Frances Long, on Writing.ie
Paranormal Roadtrip: Destination Dublin with Ruth Frances Long 12th January 2015
Skiffy and Fanty Podcast 235: Irish SF w/ Maura McHugh, Gareth Kavanagh, Michael Carroll, & Ruth Frances Long (The World SF Tour)”
Details Details on Writing.ie – 8th September 2014
YAPS interview – 24th September 2014
Podcast Interview with Skiffy and Fanty Show – 25th August 2013
Podcast Interview – Leeds Book Club (@AvidReader) – 5th December 2012
Itching for Books Blog Tour – lots of links relating to The Treachery of Beautiful Things including an Interview with me, another interview with me and one with Jack