Embarrassing Middle Name: In 'The Kelpie', Emma and Ned, discussing how to know each other better, confide their middle names to each other.

Does Not Like Shoes: Rois Melior, the heroine of Winter Rose.In Alphabet of Thorn, Kane creates a time gate to allow Axis to invade the future.In The Sorceress and the Cygnet, the doors in the house of Nyx Ro rarely lead where you would expect.Children Are Innocent: In 'Wonders of the Invisible World', Cotton Mather cites this.Arcadia: Mentioned in 'The Kelpie': healthy living in the countryside is cited to explain Emma's height.Anxiety Dreams: Discussed in 'The Kelpie': Wilding suggests that Emma is sleeping poorly because of these a future of matrimony and children will give her little chance to paint.She was given a special Lifetime Achievement World Fantasy Award in 2008.

She has also written one Science Fiction novel, Fool's Run. Her other works include The Sorceress and the Cygnet, and its sequel The Cygnet and the Firebird, as well as The Changeling Sea, The Book of Atrix Wolfe, Winter Rose, Song for the Basilisk, The Tower at Stony Wood, In the Forests of Serre, Alphabet of Thorn, Od Magic, Solstice Wood, and The Bell at Sealey Head. She won another World Fantasy Award for Ombria in Shadow and Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards for Something Rich and Strange and Solstice Wood. She followed that up with the very popular Riddle Master Trilogy, a High Fantasy about a farmer-prince who has three stars on his forehead, and a prophecy calling nameless shapeshifters out of the sea. Her breakout novel was 1974's World Fantasy Award-winning The Forgotten Beasts of Eld, a fairy-tale-like story of a beautiful sorceress on a remote mountaintop. Patricia Anne McKillip (FebruMay 6, 2022) was an American writer known for her unusual and sometimes surreal, dream-like fantasy works.

Winter Rose by Patricia A. McKillip