Alex Zandra

I once started making a flowchart for that, but never ended up finishing it. Maybe I should get back to it...

If you like cats and/or gender, Cat Wishes is a great start! If you like witches and/or relationships, then Substitute Familiar 1 is the other go-to option I'd recommend. ^^

Her Majesty The Prince is a departure from my light novels; it's a big fantasy drama (that still has a ton of gender and self-discovery, to be clear) so it might be best experienced when you're in the right mood for that sort of thing. That said, it's also a great introduction to my work—it's my current favorite thing I've ever written AND also my longest story yet! And I'm still writing it! Act II is really close to being done though, so whenever you do read Act I, you won't have long to wait for the next major arc. ^^

Plant Lamp and Feline Therapy are really special books to me, but they probably shouldn't be your introduction to my work. I recommend checking them out later! Meanwhile, Squid Maids is the first book I wrote so it's a bit less polished than the rest, but it'll fit nicely pretty much anywhere in a reading order. That one I'm less tempted to recommend as the first book to read because I've gotten better at writing since then, haha ^^;

Hopefully that should give you a good idea! Thank you so much for taking a chance on my books, it means a lot <3

An invincible knight and a genius princess swap bodies—but that's okay!

The new Prince is emboldened, powerful, and finally able to usher in the societal changes he's been struggling to implement all his life! As for the knight and former bodyguard, well...

What do you do when the person you swore to keep safe no longer needs your protection? How do you find a purpose, a sense of self-worth? Do you brave the unknown, or try to recover a semblance of what you once had?

I want to read the latest chapter!

That's wonderful! Pick your favorite:

• The most recent chapter is in full here on my Patreon (available to patrons for the first week, and then available to everyone after that!)
• A longer preview of the most recent chapter is also here on cohost

I want to catch up!

• There's a full archive of the whole story in a collection on my Patreon
• You can also read it on Scribble Hub for an easier online reading experience (chapters are posted here once a week until it catches up to the Patreon)
• hermajestytheprince.com will always have links to the rest, just in case!

I want to read the whole thing once it's done!

Act I, the first major arc of the story, has concluded! You can get it as its own book here:

• Act I - The City on itch.io
• Act II - The Crown currently in progress!

If you get Act I, you'll automatically be notified when Act II comes out! Think of these as volumes of a bigger overarching story; if you're waiting for the entire story to be done, that'll take a long while! (And truth be told, readers keep me writing <3)

I want to know more!

Her Majesty The Prince is set in a lovely fictional place that can be summarized as Video Game RPG Fantasy France (not a literal game, but that should give you an idea of the vibe) and features:

• a knight trying desperately to find purpose now that she can't live for someone else
• the smartest Prince alive who may or may not have blind spots in his understanding
• t4t het romance, with a side of lesbians
• polyamorous relationships
• québécois, that obscure language almost no one understands
• bisexual disasters
• tons of fantasy drama
• a castle full of maids
• lots and lots of complicated feelings about gender
• witches!
• subtext and secrets for you to suss out
• an ancient, poorly understood ritual
• the largest, queerest cast I've ever written
• a masquerade under the full moon
• ...and more!

Thank you for reading—I'm excited to go on this serialized adventure with you! ^^

good question! here are some ZandraVandra Light Novel stats

Squid Maids: 19,000 words
Cat Wishes: 22,000 words
Cat Wishes Stories: 22,000 words
Subfami: 35,000 words
Subfami Stories: 30,000 words
Feline Therapy: 10,000 words
Plant Lamp: 53,000 words
all my light novels so far: 191,000 words

HER MAJESTY THE PRINCE: 135,000 words (so far)

HMTP is currently the longest story I have ever written; it's more than double my next longest book. At least one chapter is longer than my shortest light novel! By the time I'm done with this book, it'll have eclipsed the size of my entire library before it.

It's not the longest time I've ever spent on a story; Plant Lamp took me around two years to make, primarily because of a perfect storm of energy-draining events (burnout, trauma therapy, and the start of the pandemic). I'm still dealing with said events, to be clear, but the sheer motivation I feel to write this story has somehow helped me be productive despite all the obstacles in my way.

At some point I had to calm down and find a way to sustainably shift from Hyperfixation Writing to Regular Writing, and that's been mostly successful! I don't write a chapter ever 2-3 days now (which was frankly ludicrous what was I doing), but I'm hoping I can return to my ideal speed of one chapter per 2 weeks that I was writing at for a while.

Writing this story has been a revelation and a breath of fresh air, primarily because of all the firsts: my first serial story (where I release chapters as I write them), my first fantasy setting, and the first time I let myself write really messy relationships. I'm thriving! And while I can't say that all my books will be like this going forward, I definitely want to do more serial writing in the future. It's been so much fun to engage with my audience as I write a story instead of just in one big burst once I'm done with a book!

Just like my other works, I couldn't have done it alone. Every book I've written has involved sensitivity readers, consultants and editors that have helped me cross the finish line, and this one's no exception. And the best part is that they get to see people react to their work as it comes out, too! ^^

If you've ever wanted to read my take on a big fantasy drama with a side of gender (and queer disasters making terrible decisions), Her Majesty The Prince is now on Scribble Hub!

It's a bit more reader-friendly than the big Patreon archive and is being updated at the rate of one chapter every Friday, rain or shine. It's still in the middle of Act I so it's the perfect time to pick up the adventures of this t4t pair of fools in Video Game RPG Fantasy France!

Check it out! ^^