Michelle Sagara West's Blog

Nothing else in my house broke down (I say, knocking wood). The heat of summer has passed into the cooler, early autumn, which is my favorite season of the year. (I find Spring too muddy, Summer too hot, Winter too cold (plus snow)). Sadly, it is also my worse allergy season >.Continue reading →

This is just a quick note to say The Wild Road is finally available on Audible. I have no idea what took so long–it was available far earlier at other audiobook platforms =/. But one of my patreon readers noticed it and pointed it out today, so I am sharing what I hope is good news to those of you who’ve been waiting. I’ve been informed by the distributor that the book has been in the audible quality control queue since I uploaded it in May. In theory it should take 30+ days. Clearly this is not...

I started this post in July of 2025, but clearly July has disappeared beneath my feet. July was the month of CAC replacement and readjustment. Which technically started in June. 2025 has been the year of home repair. We live in a house that was built at the turn of the 1900s (I almost said century, but that could easily apply to the 2000s, which would not be accurate). I once dreamed of owning a home that wasn’t subject to landlords and their need to get rid of tenants to raise rents, among othe...

The Wild Road should now be available for order or purchase (or special order), in the format of your choice. The exception, sadly, is audible.com. The audiobook has propagated to other retailers, but audible.com still doesn’t show it. I don’t know when it will go live. From my end, the only thing that’s waiting is audible.com approval. Both the hardcover and the paperback should be available for pre-order and order, as will the ebook at all of the vendors. This is the second novel in The Burnin...

I have been struggling a bit with real life, and, as always, am behind on everything. But: The Wild Road will be available on the 17th of June, 2025 (I am practicing 2025 because apparently some part of my brain falls back into 2024 mode. Usually I’ve beaten it out of my head by this time in the year, but, well. 2025.) I won’t be at my usual desk until the 19th of June, which I’ve been told is terrible planning. And it is, but it wasn’t entirely planned >.Continue reading →

Today, the 27th of May, is my wedding anniversary. Today, the 27th of May, is the Guy Gavriel Kay book launch for Written on the Dark, which is being held at the Merrill collection of Speculative Fiction. I’d link, but it’s a ticketed event (tickets were free), that is entirely fully booked. I could have squeaked in as a bookstore employee, except, see above. Wedding anniversary. HOWEVER, today is also the release day for Heir of Light. Heir of Light should, as of today, be available for purchas...

This has not been the best year, and I feel that I’ve been under water for most of 2025. But this morning it occurred to me that I’ve never posted the cover for The Wild Road here, so first things first.   Cover art by Jody Lee. The Wild Road is the second book in the series; it follows Hunter’s Redoubt. I have been working on the third book, but ‘working’ means starting it over and over again. But this morning when I woke up, I had that flash of insight that meant I’d been starting from the wro...

I’m a little bit late on this. It’s been a very hectic month, and I just finished my taxes (Canadian taxes are due on the 30th of April). My mother very helpfully suggested that I could get them done early and then I wouldn’t been in this crush–but I pointed out that it will take 3 days no matter when I start, and it’s not like I haven’t had a ton of other emergency deadlines >.Continue reading →

This is the full cover dust jacket for the hardcover of Heir of Light. I would have posted it when I posted the paperback full cover, but I just received it today, so I’m posting it now. The text should be the same on the cover flap as it is on the trade paperback. And now I’m going back to the joy of copy-edit reviews for Wild Road >.

January and February have been chaotic, frenetic, and full of chaos and confusion. And snow. Which, given where I live, is normal, if hugely inconvenient. And copy-edits, which make me pull my hair out. But: I have a full cover for the upcoming Heir of Light. And also: for reasons I’m not clear on, Mira is publishing a simultaneous hardcover release. I think it’s meant mostly for library purchase, but is being offered on Amazon and physical retailers as well. (I personally would not want a hardc...