Tansy Rayner Roberts
Excerpt
It was a catapult. More than that, it was an empress of catapults. It had no less than eight different arms, each of which could be loaded with a touch, and fired with a combination of sounds such as clicking fingers, a belch, or a clap of the hands. The villagers contributed the remains of their luncheons with great enthusiasm and watched as the young device-builder clapped, burped, whistled and clicked the right combination to send every arm juddering into the air, showering the gentleman in the stocks with beer, pie crust, apricots and some rather soft cooked turnip gruel.
Bio
Tansy Rayner Roberts is the award-winning author of the Creature Court trilogy: Power and Majesty, The Shattered City, and Reign of Beasts. Her short story collection Love and Romanpunk was published by Twelfth Planet Press in 2011. You can find her at her blog, on Twitter, and on the Hugo-nominated podcast Galactic Suburbia. Tansy lives in Tasmania, Australia with a Silent Producer and two superhero daughters.
Publications
Love and Romanpunk, Twelfth Planet Press, 2011.
Writing Description
Right now I'm working on a Victorian Gothic YA with robots and vengeful fairies, plus a heap of short stories.
Writing Goals
To complete 30,000 words over the six weeks.
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