[STARRED REVIEW] “Gathering glittering selections from the fantasy great’s cherished oeuvre, The Essential Patricia A. McKillip is a radiant collection of fairy tales and modern fables. In a dragon’s tower, too many treasure-seeking men talk past the truest treasure before them. Elsewhere, generations of women who can crochet time and defy storms band together to defeat an ancient evil. In another story, a time traveler wishes that she could change a malicious minister’s deadly visions, but is bound by the rules. And in “The Lion and the Lark,” a loyal daughter falls in love with an enchanted nobleman, following the fall of his feathers as they wait out a curse. The prose throughout is atmospheric, otherworldly, and enchanting. McKillip conjures whole worlds with light trails of evocative terms: a fortune-teller’s tent is “a colorful cave of embroidery, lace, ribbons, flowing cloth” wherein the candle flames weave “a mystery of light and glittering dark”; a “tiny living world within a glass globe” plagues the wizard who stole it from the faerie queen, containing an oak wood, gold light, and trees that “fade to lavender and smoke.” Medieval and fantasy settings are well represented, but there are dashes of the contemporary as well. A sensory pleasure from beginning to end, The Essential Patricia A. McKillip is a must for fantasy readers.”
—Foreword

“McKillip was a singular, arguably the best, proponent of a gentle, lyrical style of storytelling that embraced the reader with warmth and hope, even when she tackled darker subjects. Her stories are shafts of sunlight in a dark wood, moonlight dancing on seafoam, starlit wonders that settle deep in a reader’s heart like a dragon's hoard.”
—Charles de Lint, author of the Newford series

“Reading McKillip is the closest you will come to entering a waking dream. Her prose seduces and enchants, blurring the line between the real and imagined, as her characters take you down paths both perilous and familiar. She shaped a generation of writers’ imaginations, and no fantasy collection is complete without her unique voice.” 
—Leigh Bardugo, New York Times bestselling author of the Grishaverse series

“McKillip’s stories are as stately, luminous and tightly woven as figures in the margins of an illuminated manuscript and as full of secrets trembling on the edge of knowing.”
—Kathleen Jennings, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Kindling

“Patricia McKillip is the single writer whose work I treasure above all others. Her books have shaped the way I think about the art of writing fantasy: how to create fully realized imaginary worlds, even in the brief space of a short story, and how to breathe magic into language itself. I re-read her books again and again and learn something new from them each time. She is a modern master of enchantment.”
—Terri Windling, author of The Wood Wife

“Patricia McKillip is indeed essential. If you want to read the very best fantastical fiction that has ever been written, you have to include McKillip on your list. She is perhaps the most poetic of the great fantasy writers, yet her poetry is always rooted in the real, like lilies of the valley growing from rich forest soil.”
—Theodora Goss, author of Letters from an Imaginary Country

Praise for Patricia A. McKillip

“Rich and regal.”
—New York Times

“Gorgeous, lyrical prose.”
—Guardian

“McKillip deserves all the praise she received for creating such a masterful, brave, intricately crafted universe.”
—Starburst

“McKillip’s is the first name that comes to mind when I’m asked whom I read myself.”
—Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn

“Some authors we read for their characters and their plots, others for the beauty of their language. I read McKillip for all three.”
—Charles de Lint, author of The Riddle of the Wren

“Wise and deep.”
—Antick Musings

“Fear, hope, love, hatred, and all that makes us human assume magical forms in McKillip’s characteristically gorgeous prose.”
—E. Lily Yu, author of On Fragile Waves

“Soaring prose, lyrics to songs our hearts have forgotten they knew how to sing.”
—Seattle Review of Books

“Full of magic, wonder and fantastic creatures.”
—Speculative Herald

Ageless, eternal, light and perfect like a star.”
—SF Site

“Patricia McKillip weaves an incredibly rich, poetic, wise and mystical story.”
—St. Louis Dispatch-Post

[STARRED REVIEW] “World Fantasy Award winner McKillip can take the most common fantasy elements, dragons and bards, sorcerers and shape-shifters and reshape them in surprising and resonant ways.”
—Publishers Weekly

“I read, and reread McKillip eagerly. She reminds me that fantasy is worth writing.”
—Stephen R. Donaldson, author of Lord Foul’s Bane

“Ever since finding and loving The Riddle-Master of Hed many years ago, I have read everything Patricia McKillip has written. You should too.”
—Garth Nix, author of Sabriel

• Reviews and features in Oregon regional and national media outlets and social media
• Promotion at major trade and genre conventions, including BEA, Readercon, the International Convention for the Fantastic in the Arts, and the World Fantasy Convention
• Planned ARC distribution and book giveaways to include NetGalley, Goodreads, Edelweiss, Tor.com, and additional online outlets