Michele C. Shaw
@micheleshaw.bsky.social
She/Her - Author, artist, devourer of content THE HONORABLE CON - the first in the epic fantasy series, the Obscura Saga. Join Con-Artist Ailyanna as she tries to escape her past and stop a civil war. OUT NOW!!! https://linktr.ee/MicheleCShaw
#TheCherishedDebt comes out in September so I have no brains left for advertising. Pls clap for my mediocre video.
Hey did you want to read Award Finalist The Honorable Con before the sequel hits stores this September? Well the e-book is on sale for only $2.99 USD!!! #TheHonorableCon #Booksky #booksale #SPFBO
A quick update on awards #netgalley arcs, #sales and future projects. #booksky #thehonorablecon #theobscurasaga
I can’t say enough how excited and flattered I am that Jester is on this list. I’m also jazzed to read the other nine. Reupped KU to get started!
And then there were ten! Finalists for the 11th year of #SPFBO
I was a semi finalist, and now... I am a finalist in the #SPFBO This is amazing, and I don't have words. I'm very honored, but I am not a con... heh... #TheHonorableCon
I'm an award Semi Finalist and I'm so hype! Plus, it's only a about a week before the sequel goes up on netgalley for ARC readers! #Booksky #SPFBO #Netgalley #TheHonorableCon #fantasybooks
Drum Roll please... 🥁🥁🥁 May I present the first OFFICIAL art of my leading ladies. Ailyanna and Kresta. This moment is from the sequel The Cherished Debt, but if you want to know where their adventure starts, The Honorable Con is available now! The amazing @lepus__ (insta) did this phenomenal piece.
Got to read the first volume of witch hat and it is indeed amazing!!!! I am eyeing up the new hardcover grimoire edition, I wants it, I needs it... My precious!
AHHHHH I'm going to be doing my first Author Event!!!! For anyone in #Newcastle Australia, please come along to the Write Here festival for Lake Mac Libraries and listen to me talk about the craft of the Fantasy Novel!! library.lakemac.com.au/Whats-On/Fes... www.lakemac.com.au/Events-direc...
Craft of the Fantasy Novel
A conversation on worldbuilding and why the genre thrives.
lakemac.com.au
I got the draft sketch of my first commissioned character art and my girls look sooo good!!! Kresta and Ailyanna you two are brilliant and I’m so thrilled to tell this story!!!
I need you to watch Witch Hat Atelier. Don't know if I'm talking to you? Are you currently watching it? No? Then I'm talking to you. You might be worried that I'm over hyping it, that I'll have gassed it up too much. You need to understand when I call it a master piece... I am underselling it
I’m drafting book 3 of #TheObscuraSaga while waiting for book 2 to come back from the editor and thinking that after book 3, I should probably work on something else and ensure the second half of the series has enough time. But I’d really like to keep to yearly releases for them if I can.
Just watched the latest Witch Hat Atelier and just... holy shit, holy shit... omg holy shit. Every now and then you get to come across a story that just makes you feel privileged to get to witness it. This is another one of those.
Let's have an update for #TheObscuraSaga Book 1: #TheHonorableCon (Available now!) Book 2: #TheCherishedDebt (With the editor, coming September 5th) Book 3: Drafting now Book 4: Plotting out Book 5: Plotting out Book 6: Plotting out Maybe if folks like, I can tease out some of the future titles
AHHHHH I'm going to be doing my first Author Event!!!! For anyone in #Newcastle Australia, please come along to the Write Here festival for Lake Mac Libraries and listen to me talk about the craft of the Fantasy Novel!! library.lakemac.com.au/Whats-On/Fes... www.lakemac.com.au/Events-direc...
Craft of the Fantasy Novel
A conversation on worldbuilding and why the genre thrives.
lakemac.com.au
Witch Hat Atelier looks stunning! This is a wonderful story and that I can tell I’m going to love!
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So The Honorable Con ebook is on sale for 0.99c at the moment!!! Ailyanna a con artist has one chance to earn her freedom. She just needs to pull off an impossible mission for the king, expose a dukes treason and stop a civil war. Easy done right? Read it now before the sequel drops!! #booksky
What I want to do with my Romantasy story: Project Kunzite. I want world building to be aesthetic but solid. I want characters to feel unique. I want focus on the emotional connection. Gonna earn that spice. I want to play with my fav tropes like forced proximity. I want to have fun! #booksky
Romantasy project is going well. I’d planned a character who was very refined, was not expecting her to turn goblin in chapter 1 while bitting the love interest. #booksky
I’ve finally continued on #thelockedtomb and have started Harrow. I have theories, thoughts, conspiracies, and observations. One of my key questions (that I don’t want an answer to, I will rafo) is if the prologue is a flash forward or not. Because it changes what I think Harrows great work is.
I was meant to go to bed but instead I had a rum and started a knights tale I’m now I’m just crying. “Sir William, your dad heard that”
Started work on a new project today, unsure if it should be called romantasy or fantasy romance. But I do know, the couple is going to need to hide out in a travelling circus. Why yes I was reminded about wheel of time today, why do you ask? #booksky #romantasy
Been learning animation for fun, and I’m going to try and make a trailer for #TheHonorableCon in honour of the sequel coming out this year. I’m sure the terrible quality will only bring an endearing show of human effort in an encroaching AI world. #booksky #indieanimation
I am gobsmacked? Shook?? Thunderstruck a.k.a astonished, amazed or so suddenly surprised as to be unable to speak??? (thank you for like my story this much 😭)
Congratulations to the finalists of the 2025 Aurealis Awards! aurealisawards.org/2026/02/01/2...