This Princess Kills Monsters: Queer Fairytale night with Ry Herman

Someone wants to murder Princess Melilot. This is sadly normal.

"The Princess Bride meets Shrek in this delightfully feminist fairy tale full of thrilling quests, quirky characters, and lots of laughs."-Susie Dumond, author of Queerly Beloved

Ry Herman has outdone themself with their latest offering, This Princess Kills Monsters, in which a princess with a mostly useless magical talent takes on horrible monsters, a dozen identical masked heroes, and a talking lion in a quest to save a kingdom—and herself—in an affectionate satire of the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale The Twelve Huntsmen.

Join us to celebrate in this DELIGHT of a novel, to raise a toast to feminist fairy tales and gorge on the magic of queering familiar stories.

We'll have 40 minutes of discussion with the author, followed by time for questions, signing and festive good vibes: We'll be in the bookshop garden for this very special launch, expect themed surprises and refreshments - costumes and extra fabulousness most welcome.

"This Princess Kills Monsters is exactly the sort of queer fairy tale for grown-ups that I have yearned to read. Ry Herman's story is thrilling, irreverent, wondrous--yet unswervingly true to the hearts of those too wise to be honest and too wounded to believe."--Ryka Aoki, author of Light from Uncommon Stars