Patricia A. McKillip
Patricia a McKillip is an American fantasy writer. She won the World Fantasy Award for The Forgotten Beasts of Eld and Ombria in Shadow and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Something Rich and Strange and Solstice Wood. Her other works include, among others, the Riddle of the Stars trilogy, The Riddle-Master of Hed, Heir of Sea and Fire, and Harpist in the Wind, and The Changeling Sea, The Book of Atrix Wolfe, Winter Rose, Song for the Basilisk, The Tower at Stony Wood, Ombria in Shadow, In the Forests of Serre, Alphabet of Thorn, Od Magic, Solstice Wood, and The Bell at Sealey Head.
Tropes found in her works include:
- Anger Born of Worry
- Arcadia: Hed
- Arranged Marriage
- Bad Dreams
- Blue Blood
- Curse
- Curiosity Is a Crapshoot
- Damsel in Distress
- Dances and Balls
- Distressed Dude
- Engagement Challenge
- Everything's Better With Princesses
- Fallen Princess
- Fantastic Nature Reserve
- Fearless Fool
- First-Name Basis
- Full Boar Action
- A God Am I
- Great Big Book of Everything
- Hidden Depths
- High-Class Glass
- The High Queen
- I Gave My Word
- Impoverished Patrician
- Involuntary Shapeshifting
- King in The Mountain: In Alphabet of Thorn
- Knight in Shining Armor
- The Lost Woods
- Mandatory Motherhood
- Meaningful Name
- Names to Run Away From Really Fast
- Nice to The Waiter
- Nothing Is Scarier
- Old Retainer
- Pirate (invoked)
- Ravens and Crows
- Royal Blood
- Scullery Maid
- Selkies and Wereseals: In The Tower at Stony Wood, a character is revealed to be of selkie origin when she regains her former shape by donning the seal suit she has made.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man
- Talking in Your Dreams
- Thicker Than Water
- The Voiceless
- When Trees Attack
- Wild Hair
- Words Can Break My Bones