the Author

Michelle is an author, book­seller, and lover of liter­a­ture based in Toronto. She writes fantasy novels as both Michelle Sagara and Michelle West (and some­times as Michelle Sagara West).

The Wild Road

The Burning Crown, Book Two
by Michelle West

The second novel in Michelle West’s The Burning Crown, the final arc in her long-running Essalieyan universe. THE WILDERNESS IS WAKING Stephen has never left the kingdom of his birth. But the possible cure for his huntbrother’s shat­tered memo­ries cannot be found in Breo­danir. It might be found in the...

  • Most recent blog post

    • State of the Author, January 2026

      A comment that came in reminded me that I have been entirely absent from my author site for a couple of months. I have not been writing. On the 8th of November, my youngest son had a hemor­rhagic stroke. The strokes with which I’m most familiar are ischemic — blood clots. Hemor­rahgic strokes differ by cause (Read more...)

  • News & appearances

    • Eastercon 2024

      I was reminded in a comment that I have grossly under­uti­lized the “News” portion of this site. I tend to think of posts as blog posts, and I gener­ally mention anything new there. However! I am going to the UK, to East­ercon in 2024 (which is, as I write, this year) as one of the Guests (Read more...)

Chronicles of Elantra

The Emperor's Wolves

The Wolves of Elantra

Lessons of the Academia

The Sacred Hunt

The Sun Sword

The House War

Hunter's Redoubt

The Burning Crown

The Queen of the Dead

The Books of the Sundered

Short Stories