do you guys also think that the winter prince is totally a shoujo boy and the candy queen kinda has some magical girl villain swag or smth

“You cling to me so—do you still trust me, after all this?”

He said in a low, broken voice, “I have always trusted you.”

I’m absolutely obsessed with this man

Adore this pompous dork

A long-time friend, fan and general lovely person took advantage of Open Road's special offer on The Winter Prince yesterday and bought ten copies (digital and illustrated by YOURS TRULY) to give away. Please don't let them go to waste - share with your friends! The link is in the comments on my FB post here:

part two of the winter prince liveblog. It Got So Much Worse.

maybe I should take a break. page 143 was a lot to handle even for me

“The Lady of the House of Love,” Angela Carter

The Winter Prince, Elizabeth Wein

Mia Wasikowska on filming Stoker

“The Hedge Knight,” George R. R. Martin

I felt compelled to make a more complete and accurate version of this Venn diagram, so. Here it is.

Love that Lleu likes mosaics. He takes broken, fragmented pieces that should be discarded and puts them into a picture, makes them into a whole once again

The winter prince's Mordred/Medraut makes me feel every single emotion known to mankind and for that he is the best version I will hear no objection.

He's cute, he's pathetic, he's scary, he's a creep, he's smart, he's dumb, he eats snow for breakfast, he's insane, he's the most sane, he works hard and suffers harder, he's mature, he's childish, he's the best big brother and the worst big brother, he hates Lleu, he loves Lleu, he cradles Lleu because Lleu is the embodiment of everything he wants, he kissed him, he tried to kill him, he taught him to be cruel so that Lleu could stab him back(and no I don't mean IN the back, this is them reciprocating feelings)

He haunts Lleu, Lleu haunts him, he FUCKING KISSED HIM, he wants to be the only one to hurt Lleu, he slapped Agravain for hitting Lleu, he heals him, he drugs him, he KISSED LLEU, MAY OR MAY NOT WANT TO FUCK HIM TOO, probably constantly high on adrenaline, he-

(For those who haven't read it yet, Lleu is his younger half-brother, Arthur's legitimate son. Oh this boy is never escaping the family cycle, well I mean until the next books)

Edit: HE ALSO REFERENCED CAIN AND ABEL WHEN DESCRIBING HIM AND LLEU, FUCCCCCCKKKKK

The Winter Prince (1993)

I and a few familiar friends now run a small server devoted to the Lion Hunters series by Elizabeth Wein! We would love to hang out with you there as well as here. Join us for:

spoiler-free zones for new readers

full series (and short stories) discussion and a place to yearn for The Sword Dance

enthusiasm and support for fanworks and really anything Lion Hunters

somewhat-regular group Read Aloud nights - we’re nearly done with A Coalition of Lions, so it’s The Sunbird next!

alternate winter prince cover proposal for the discord gang

Fiona taking away the magic from the winter kings crown was independent to her or the kiss. We actually see cake do the same exact thing when she’s messing around with the hot dog knights she takes away one of their magic and turns him normal too

ROUND ONE

Propaganda

Medraut: This version of Mordred is a doctor and a hunter who hurts and heals and has SO much trauma. Family trauma. Being asked to kill loved ones trauma. Caused a battle by accident trauma. Can’t face the people he loves most who just want him back trauma… Nightmares, the works. He makes it through to a new beginning, but he’s still sad, don’t worry! He also loves the cold and the darkness.

Shadow the Hedgehog: he's such a broody guy... with such a tragic past... and so many identity issues..... maria............

I hope you don't mind if I ask about the process behind creating your fascinating characters, Medraut and Lleu. Additionally, I was curious to know if "The Winter Prince" was originally intended to be a single volume. The reason I ask is that the epilogue seemed a bit hurried, and I was wondering if initially there might have been more to Medraut and Lleu’s story during the time of “the winter prince”. Thank you for your time and consideration.

such an arc. I was 14 years old and OBSESSED with King Arthur, and ALSO with the "Fourth Branch" of The Mabinogion, and then I saw Disney's Sleeping Beauty and became ridiculously obsessed with the image of Prince Philip captured by Maleficent's goblins, and the doodles began... and somehow it all morphed into this rivalry between Mordred and King Arthur's legitimate son, named for the hero of the 4th Branch, and whom I'd made up. During high school this developed into the original (quite different) version of what became The Winter Prince. Both characters refined as I matured, and while originally Mordred was fairly stereotypically evil, his character became more sympathetic after I read Rosemary Sutcliff's Sword at Sunset and renamed him Medraut. The present version wasn't written until ten years after the initial inspiration for the story. I am not sure what you mean by the epilogue - The Winter Prince hasn't got an epilogue - or about it being intended as a single volume, which it is. But I see what you mean about the novel ending abruptly. I mean, I did live and breathe these characters for ten years or so, so there is "more" to their story than I finally included in the book. Also, I toyed with a bunch of dead plotlines before I settled on this one! Or by "single volume" do you mean the whole of The Lion Hunters cycle? The Lion Hunter and The Empty Kingdom were indeed written as a single volume, which my publisher asked me to break up. All the other books in the cycle were written separately, though they are intentionally connected; by the time I got to the end of The Empty Kingdom I was very carefully setting up the action for The Sword Dance, which is the unpublished final book in the cycle. SIGHHHH I am sorry that it remains unpublished. It ties everything together and I think it is the most literary and emotionally complex book I've ever written. Thanks for reading and for getting in touch!