Finn Longman
@finnlongman.com
Author (THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN trilogy; THE WOLF AND HIS KING) and medievalist specialising in the Ulster Cycle. #1 fan of Láeg mac Ríangabra.
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📍Cambridge, UK
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https://finnlongman.com
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📍Cambridge, UK
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https://finnlongman.com
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Finn Longman
@finnlongman.com
· Oct 15
Books
I write both YA and Adult fiction, with three books published and three forthcoming. You can find more information about most of my books on their dedicated pages — use the dropdown menu or c…
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Intro thread! I'm Finn, an author & medievalist. My books:
· THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN trilogy: a teenage assassin tries to live a normal life
· THE WOLF AND HIS KING (2025): a queer retelling of Bisclavret
· THE ANIMALS WE BECAME (2026): a queertrans take on Math fab Mathonwy
FinnLongman.com/books
· THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN trilogy: a teenage assassin tries to live a normal life
· THE WOLF AND HIS KING (2025): a queer retelling of Bisclavret
· THE ANIMALS WE BECAME (2026): a queertrans take on Math fab Mathonwy
FinnLongman.com/books
Remembering why I only blocked Bluesky for 90% of my working hours and not 100% ... logged on briefly today to see this, which is one of the manuscripts of OCC that I haven't seen yet, and which my spreadsheet notes I was particularly keen to look at because the catalogue made it sound Interesting 👀
3/3 ✒️ CF 23: Sagas, Poetry & Genealogies
Dublin, 1745–47, by Seán Ó Laochadh.
Fenian and Ulster Cycle tales, romantic adventures & historical lore.
Poems by leading bardic poets and extensive Irish genealogical material.
🔗 www.isos.dias.ie/NUIM/NUIM_MS...
Dublin, 1745–47, by Seán Ó Laochadh.
Fenian and Ulster Cycle tales, romantic adventures & historical lore.
Poems by leading bardic poets and extensive Irish genealogical material.
🔗 www.isos.dias.ie/NUIM/NUIM_MS...
MS CF 23 (Maynooth University)
www.isos.dias.ie
February 4, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Remembering why I only blocked Bluesky for 90% of my working hours and not 100% ... logged on briefly today to see this, which is one of the manuscripts of OCC that I haven't seen yet, and which my spreadsheet notes I was particularly keen to look at because the catalogue made it sound Interesting 👀
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Happy US publication week to @finnlongman.com 's Wolf and His King!! It's been 6 months since I read it, and I'm still in love with it
January 30, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Happy US publication week to @finnlongman.com 's Wolf and His King!! It's been 6 months since I read it, and I'm still in love with it
Okay. Now that TWAHK is actually out in the US and my event this week is over and therefore I can't convince myself I Need to be online all the time, I am actually going to do this. I will be here sometimes. Not often. If you see me here often then tell me to go away.
I'm really bad at doing this, and I often feel forced to stay on social media to be an Author™ even when I don't want to be there as a Person. So, my current plan:
1. Delete Bluesky from my phone and tightly limit desktop access (so I can post important news but won't doomscroll)
1/
1. Delete Bluesky from my phone and tightly limit desktop access (so I can post important news but won't doomscroll)
1/
I think I'm soon going to take an extended break from social media, especially Bluesky, because balancing my two jobs, two sets of deadlines, several chronic illnesses, and also The State Of The World™ is proving overwhelming and I need to claw back some extra time somewhere.
January 29, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Okay. Now that TWAHK is actually out in the US and my event this week is over and therefore I can't convince myself I Need to be online all the time, I am actually going to do this. I will be here sometimes. Not often. If you see me here often then tell me to go away.
The trouble with my current schedule isn't the eight hours of Welsh classes every week so much as the eight hours of naps I end up taking after and between them
January 29, 2026 at 7:48 PM
The trouble with my current schedule isn't the eight hours of Welsh classes every week so much as the eight hours of naps I end up taking after and between them
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I promised ducks, quacking: well! @chloroformtea.bsky.social (not a duck) provides Thursday's essay on knowing genre when you see it.
"We need a more expansive approach to any attempt at definition today. The genre can and plainly does sit alongside other genres which operate on different axes."
"We need a more expansive approach to any attempt at definition today. The genre can and plainly does sit alongside other genres which operate on different axes."
Quacking Like A Genre
What is SF? Idk, vibes.
strangehorizons.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:05 PM
I promised ducks, quacking: well! @chloroformtea.bsky.social (not a duck) provides Thursday's essay on knowing genre when you see it.
"We need a more expansive approach to any attempt at definition today. The genre can and plainly does sit alongside other genres which operate on different axes."
"We need a more expansive approach to any attempt at definition today. The genre can and plainly does sit alongside other genres which operate on different axes."
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Such a fun and fascinating evening at Waterstones Cambs with authors @finnlongman.com and @hollyrace.bsky.social earlier today.
Always a delight when an author is so passionate about their research - I really want to read more on the medieval werewolf renaissance now!
💙📚🪐
Always a delight when an author is so passionate about their research - I really want to read more on the medieval werewolf renaissance now!
💙📚🪐
January 28, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Such a fun and fascinating evening at Waterstones Cambs with authors @finnlongman.com and @hollyrace.bsky.social earlier today.
Always a delight when an author is so passionate about their research - I really want to read more on the medieval werewolf renaissance now!
💙📚🪐
Always a delight when an author is so passionate about their research - I really want to read more on the medieval werewolf renaissance now!
💙📚🪐
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"Here the sunlight settled on ferns and gorse and the needle-strewn track one beast or another wore in the unceasing fight for endurance..."
January 28, 2026 at 12:44 PM
"Here the sunlight settled on ferns and gorse and the needle-strewn track one beast or another wore in the unceasing fight for endurance..."
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"The paths were not true paths, a wanderer would quickly learn, only the echo of animal feet, making their winding way towards the sky with no respect for human limits..."
January 28, 2026 at 12:44 PM
"The paths were not true paths, a wanderer would quickly learn, only the echo of animal feet, making their winding way towards the sky with no respect for human limits..."
Thanks to all who came to my Cambridge event this evening! I hope you enjoyed hearing me wander wildly off topic and, uh, start talking about twelfth century theological discussions of spiders falling in communion wine. I'm... educational?
January 28, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Thanks to all who came to my Cambridge event this evening! I hope you enjoyed hearing me wander wildly off topic and, uh, start talking about twelfth century theological discussions of spiders falling in communion wine. I'm... educational?
Lol, it's from my sibling, who hadn't realised that this seller was local to me or that I knew the guy personally and had bought an instrument from him before and sometimes play sessions with him 😆 Pure coincidence. That's quite funny.
Received a mystery parcel today. Addressed to me. My address. Someone I've bought from in person before but not online (so they didn't HAVE my address). "Thank you for your order!" they said.
I did not place an order.
Is this a birthday present? It must be, I guess. But who from?
I did not place an order.
Is this a birthday present? It must be, I guess. But who from?
January 28, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Lol, it's from my sibling, who hadn't realised that this seller was local to me or that I knew the guy personally and had bought an instrument from him before and sometimes play sessions with him 😆 Pure coincidence. That's quite funny.
Received a mystery parcel today. Addressed to me. My address. Someone I've bought from in person before but not online (so they didn't HAVE my address). "Thank you for your order!" they said.
I did not place an order.
Is this a birthday present? It must be, I guess. But who from?
I did not place an order.
Is this a birthday present? It must be, I guess. But who from?
January 28, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Received a mystery parcel today. Addressed to me. My address. Someone I've bought from in person before but not online (so they didn't HAVE my address). "Thank you for your order!" they said.
I did not place an order.
Is this a birthday present? It must be, I guess. But who from?
I did not place an order.
Is this a birthday present? It must be, I guess. But who from?
Me, in a torment of attempted historical accuracy: Okay but where is the hearth in this room, where is the light coming from, how much smoke is there, how are they breathing, do I need to mention this—
Me three days later: Wait there's magic in this setting
Me three days later: Wait there's magic in this setting
January 28, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Me, in a torment of attempted historical accuracy: Okay but where is the hearth in this room, where is the light coming from, how much smoke is there, how are they breathing, do I need to mention this—
Me three days later: Wait there's magic in this setting
Me three days later: Wait there's magic in this setting
Tonight! 6pm! Cambridge (England) (Cambridgeshire cos I think there is another one) (does anybody ever mean the other one)
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
An Evening with Finn Longman | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
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January 28, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Tonight! 6pm! Cambridge (England) (Cambridgeshire cos I think there is another one) (does anybody ever mean the other one)
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
"Here the trees grew like fierce spears, straight and sharp and unknowably tall, or else like stories, twisting and ancient..."
I never did bombard youse with tree photos. Maybe I'll do that this week. Feel like we could use some trees.
I never did bombard youse with tree photos. Maybe I'll do that this week. Feel like we could use some trees.
Climbed two hills today and apparently took over 250 photos just on my phone, not counting those I took on my DSLR, so prepare for a bombardment of tree pictures when I'm home and have reliable WiFi again. Here's one to start with.
January 27, 2026 at 11:16 PM
"Here the trees grew like fierce spears, straight and sharp and unknowably tall, or else like stories, twisting and ancient..."
I never did bombard youse with tree photos. Maybe I'll do that this week. Feel like we could use some trees.
I never did bombard youse with tree photos. Maybe I'll do that this week. Feel like we could use some trees.
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It was clearly a bumper year for rowan berries, and I was amazed by how many rowan trees I saw while in North Wales. It feels like half my tree photos are trying to capture the way the vivid scarlet stands out amidst the green leaves of other trees.
September 12, 2024 at 12:29 PM
It was clearly a bumper year for rowan berries, and I was amazed by how many rowan trees I saw while in North Wales. It feels like half my tree photos are trying to capture the way the vivid scarlet stands out amidst the green leaves of other trees.
Just edited my favourite description of the woods in the whole of TAWB, if you're wondering why I'm randomly retweeting my past photos of woods
One thing about me is that I DO love to put gratuitous descriptions of woods in my books and I will NOT stop.
January 27, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Just edited my favourite description of the woods in the whole of TAWB, if you're wondering why I'm randomly retweeting my past photos of woods
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I can neither confirm nor deny whether these paths lead to Annwfn.
September 12, 2024 at 3:34 PM
I can neither confirm nor deny whether these paths lead to Annwfn.
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Leaf mulch. You're in the woods and it's raining.
What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?
October 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Leaf mulch. You're in the woods and it's raining.
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POV: you're in the woods. The English bagpipes and shawm aren't. Not that you'd know it...
September 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
POV: you're in the woods. The English bagpipes and shawm aren't. Not that you'd know it...
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Lads, I don't think these stones have been rolling
September 14, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Lads, I don't think these stones have been rolling
Writing problems: I *want* this character to be in the woods, but by medieval law they should probably be in bed for the next nine days, or something
January 27, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Writing problems: I *want* this character to be in the woods, but by medieval law they should probably be in bed for the next nine days, or something
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Me when people are saying nice things about my book but then suddenly "Ancient myth" "Celtic folktale" "Arthurian legend"
a pixelated image of a man 's face with his mouth open
Alt: meme gif conveying mood of "wait – hang on – that's not quite right – yeah, I'm not gonna win this one, actually"
media.tenor.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Me when people are saying nice things about my book but then suddenly "Ancient myth" "Celtic folktale" "Arthurian legend"
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Today! My first US publication! Not, perhaps, the best time, as I know youse have more important things to be worrying about, but so it goes
It's a weird time to be trying to release a book in the US for the first time, but I guess we all need some medieval werewolves and queer yearning amidst The Horrors? Anyway, it's only a week until THE WOLF AND HIS KING comes out in North America, and the NA edition is VERY pretty:
January 27, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Today! My first US publication! Not, perhaps, the best time, as I know youse have more important things to be worrying about, but so it goes
Me when people are saying nice things about my book but then suddenly "Ancient myth" "Celtic folktale" "Arthurian legend"
a pixelated image of a man 's face with his mouth open
Alt: meme gif conveying mood of "wait – hang on – that's not quite right – yeah, I'm not gonna win this one, actually"
media.tenor.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Me when people are saying nice things about my book but then suddenly "Ancient myth" "Celtic folktale" "Arthurian legend"
Today! My first US publication! Not, perhaps, the best time, as I know youse have more important things to be worrying about, but so it goes
It's a weird time to be trying to release a book in the US for the first time, but I guess we all need some medieval werewolves and queer yearning amidst The Horrors? Anyway, it's only a week until THE WOLF AND HIS KING comes out in North America, and the NA edition is VERY pretty:
January 27, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Today! My first US publication! Not, perhaps, the best time, as I know youse have more important things to be worrying about, but so it goes