Tansy Rayner Roberts

Ten years ago, I sent Musketeers into space with my epic, gender-swapped space opera retelling of the Dumas novel. Now the Musketeers are back in 3 snazzy paperback editions featuring glorious art by @ravven.bsky.social

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This image shows thirteen book covers around the text: The Leading Ladies Fantasy Bundle: November twelfth through December fourth. The books are: Stephanie Burgis's The Harwood Spellbook: The Complete Series, Intisar Khanani's Sunbolt, Tansy Rayner Roberts's Power and Majesty, Tilly Wallace's The Stormborne Vine, Jacquelyn Benson's The Stolen Apocalypse and Empire of Shadows, Victoria Goddard's The Sisters Avramapui Omnibus and The Redoubtable Pale Avramapui, Charlotte English's Hell and High Water, Krista Ball's The Dark Abyss of Our Sins: the Complete Series, Suzannah Rowntree's Tall and Dark, and R.J. Blain's Silent Stalker and Blood Bound.

Snap up my complete Harwood Spellbook romantasy boxed set (usually $9.99/£7.99) in the Leading Ladies
@storybundle.bsky.social along with 9 to 11 other books by amazing authors like @tansyrr.bsky.social, @kristadb1.bsky.social & more for just $25 in total!

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#romancelandia

Power and Majesty is one of my all time favourites, so do go check this bundle out!

The Leading Ladies Fantasy Bundle:
You know how it goes. There's one female character in the book, and she's a love interest. She's given little to do and less to wear. She has no good lines, and nothing to contribute save her helplessness.
These are not those stories. storybundle.com/fantasy

Check out this month's Storybundle curated by Charlotte E English -- featuring fantasy with strong female leads! a great way to pick up new reads including my own Power & Majesty

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Fair.

Women miss out on all the duels!

I think it's hilarious that most people cite Anne Rice as the 'cautionary tale' for authors responding badly to book reviewers, when Lord Byron is RIGHT THERE and no literary critics ever challenged Anne Rice to a duel for being mean to them.

Purple background, white text, which says In the Discworld, true power-hungry evil tends to go hand-in-hand with a willingness to do a lot of admin. "Brutes, Villains, & Bureaucrats" -- Tansy Rayner Roberts

This time last year, @tansyrr.bsky.social gave us her list of the great (male) brutes and villains of the #Discworld...

Read it here (for free!): www.speculativeinsight.com/essays/brutes-villains

Ah sorry yes. We dropped the paid hosting some years ago. I’ll talk to the silent producer and see what can be done ;)

I searched Galactic Suburbia podcast and it came up. If you really can’t find it to download let me know I think we have backup files somehow here

Purple background, white text, which says Pratchett's Men: With Witches (Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies); Deconstructing the Fantasy Hero; Brutes and Villains; Unromantic leading men; Celibacy and wizardry... and there's more to come...

@tansyrr.bsky.social has been writing a series on Pratchett's Men, and you can catch half of them for free (and subscribe to get the other half!). The most recent essay is the first focused on Sam Vimes... but there's more to come, don't worry.

www.speculativeinsight.com/essays?autho...

Happy Ace Pride Week, ace friends! Y'all have taught me a lot over the past few years. Let me thank you by recommending this cool (though not yet finished) fantasy series with a major ace-spec protagonist, Sparks & Philtres by @tansyrr.bsky.social. (It's the male lead.)

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That was an awesome development for her! In story and apparently also in hats!

There's no doubting where the Crawley girls get their hat skills from! The Countess of Grantham may act like a confused kidnap victim stuck in the role of country manor lady... but look at that hat expertise! I bet she could balance a billiard table on her head.

Lady Edith is often described (mostly by her FAMILY) as if she's dowdy but from season 2 onwards she has had marvellous outfits -- and her hats only get better and better! Tell me I don't need to rewatch all six seasons to figure out where this one is from.

Lady Sybil Crawley is one of the all time great hat-wearers. This one with a sort of felted embroidery situation is one of my favourites. I want to steal it and pin it to a wall.

Hunting is terrible but Edwardian ladies in top hats are spectacular.

The new Downton Movie offered a whole lot of cozy goodness, but particular a splendid array of new hats! Of all the costume dramas, Downton has always delivered good hat.

This is wild to me.

OMG!!!!!

Purple background, white text, which says I could argue that the most subversive factor of most of Pratchett's leading male fantasy heroes is that they are decent human beings. In fact, let's take a moment to do that. "Deconstructing the Fantasy Hero since 1983" -- Tansy Rayner Roberts

... and our subscriber essay in September 2024 was by @tansyrr.bsky.social : how #Pratchett deconstructed fantasy heroes right from the start (and with a massive focus on Cohen, the barbarian of my heart...).

You can read it still be subscribing, for AUD 30/year! www.speculativeinsight.com

To all of my fabric-crafting friends or anyone who needs wallpaper, check out @kmjennings.bsky.social designs on Spoonflower. They're the kind of designs that make me wish I sewed (or could wallpaper my apartment). Some faves in replies.
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Stephanie's review of Joyeux (Musketeer Space #0.5) 5/5: Ahhh this novella is a witty, sharp-edged treat for any fans of the original Three Musketeers (or French history from around that time), and I loved every moment of it. Set before the events of (...

I just read and absolutely loved @tansyrr.bsky.social's Joyeux, a prequel novella (that works beautifully on its own! but also left me desperate for MORE) to her gender-flipped Three Musketeers in space retelling (Musketeer Space). SO GOOD! www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

hahaha oh yes. I get personally offended by how quickly other people's children age when I'm not around them, while also being amused when people are shocked at my children doing the same.

So it's all SECRET REVEAL and OMG NO ONE KNEW and CONCEALED MARRIAGE instead of 'hey we assumed no one cared about these actors any more so we left them alone for a bit and it turns out they keep living their lives even when we're not staring directly at them ARE THEY MAGIC?'

I think my favourite thing about the Downton Abbey movie coverage so far is all the media flipping out because they forgot to obsessively invade the privacy of the cast for the last several years and now they have several marriages, pregnancies and babies to catch up on.

Not saying I don't love the show, but I feel like viewers who found it via the fluffy, low-stakes films are in for a bit of a shock about the brutal terrain on the roads to all those happy endings.

Even the usual British definition of 'cozy' storytelling (much grimmer than in other parts of the world) doesn't usually lean quite so much into medical body horror, familial betrayals and romantic pairs enduring years of torment before they can finally be together (and/or die young).