Melanie Harding-Shaw

Guest writer

Melanie Harding-Shaw works as a public policy advisor in Wellington and writes science fiction, fantasy, and horror from micro-fiction through to novels. She has been a finalist for Best Short Story in the Sir Julius Vogel Awards three times, and last year won the award for Services to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror in 2020. She has been widely published.

Your guide to New Zealand fantasy romance novels coming in 2024

Your guide to New Zealand fantasy romance novels coming in 2024

Paranormal, historical, monster and more – all the different flavours of fantasy romance on the way from local authors this year.

By Melanie Harding-Shaw | 16th January, 2024

Image: Toby Morris

The Beehive becomes a dilapidated nest of giant winged spider-monsters

Read the first chapter of a new fantasy romance novel set in a dramatically reimagined Wellington.

By Melanie Harding-Shaw | 15th November, 2022

Melanie Harding-Shaw and gluten-free donuts from Kim’s Kitchen in Tawa (Photo: Supplied)

Introducing comfort fiction for coeliacs

In this new witchy novella, gluten is the nemesis.

By Melanie Harding-Shaw | 9th June, 2021