TansyRR

• Age: 31
• Gender: Female
• Occupation: writer, mother, doll merchant
• Location: Hobart : Tasmania

About Me

Tansy Rayner Roberts is a Tasmanian author of fantasy, science fiction and chick lit crime. She has a PhD in Classics, and sells the Deepings Dolls direct to galleries as well as by mail order. Tansy recently sold a fantasy trilogy, The Creature Court to HarperCollins Voyager. The first of these, Power and Majesty will be released in 2010. In the mean time, Cafe La Femme is due out from Pulp Fiction Press in 2009.

Interests

• history
• mythology
• ancient rome
• books
• art deco
• flappers
• coffee
• arsenal
• quilting
• costume
• embroidery
• fantasy
• magical fiction
• short stories
• imperial women

Favorite Movies

• The Princess Bride
• Labyrinth
• Siam Sunset
• Howl's Moving Castle
• Shadows in the Sun
• The Philadelphia Story
• The Big Sleep
• Clueless

Favorite Music

• Ani DiFranco
• Regina Spektor
• Lily Allen
• The Lucksmiths
• Rilo Kiley
• Kate Miller-Heidke
• The Dresden Dolls
• Pony Up!
• The Cat Empire

Favorite Books

• Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
• Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers
• Fabulous Nobodies by Lee Tulloch
• The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
• anything by Maureen Johnson
• The Time of the Ghost by Diana Wynne Jones

My Blogs	Team Members
Tansy's Cloister
Ripping Ozzie Reads	Flinthart Maxine McArthur Richard Harland Rowena Cory Daniells Marianne de Pierres Trent Jamieson