✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨

@joyshaw

Mom • Teacher • Dark Myth-Tech fantasy Author ✨ CPTSD survivor. Scarred heroines, fierce, like their readers. Scars aren’t endings. They’re the sparks that start the blaze. #RevPit 2026 | #10Queries critique ➡️ www.joy-shaw.com x.com/authorjoyshaw

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✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· 18d

Joy Shaw writes dark myth-tech fantasy exploring how healing becomes its own form of resistance. Off the page, she’s a teacher, mom, and adventurer who believes scars aren’t endings. They’re sparks waiting to rise.

Photo of author Joy Shaw seated outdoors, smiling warmly toward the camera. Text describes her as a writer of dark myth-tech fantasy blending lyrical prose, grit, myth, and survivor-centered themes, with links to her social media accounts and website.

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· 18d

A glimpse into SCARella’s voice 💔🔥 #QuestPit #A #SFF

$Graphic titled “Heart of SCARella” with a lyrical excerpt about a character’s internal conflict, wanting connection but feeling trapped by fear, trauma, and the risk of fracturing into something unrecognizable.$

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· 18d

JESSICA JONES × ARCANE 🔥 vigilante w/CPTSD 🧬 trauma coded into skin as runes 🧠 reclusive underground inventor 🐀 rat seers 🩸 trafficked girls ☄️ post-Collapse Manhattan 😭 grief=harvestable magical energy ⚙️ emotion-run weapons 🕯️ healing as resistance ❤️ love as presence #QuestPit #A #SFF #MythTech

Collage-style moodboard featuring glowing infinity symbols on two hands reaching, a small rat, a red eye, armed soldiers, a futuristic flying drone, a tunnel with train tracks, a city in ruins, and a lush cave with a waterfall where two figures stand beneath the light.

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· 18d

A trafficking survivor turned vigilante stalks Manhattan’s ruins with a sentient flaming machete to rescue girls from a grief-harvesting regime. When she joins a subterranean rebel, her trauma-made-visible glyph mutates, threatening to remake her into the predator she hunts.🔥 #QuestPit #A #SFF

Four-panel graphic for SCARella: The Machete Marauderess, a 101,000-word adult cyberpunk fantasy. Includes a visual of two hands reaching toward a glowing butterfly with glyph markings, a pitch about a trafficking survivor turned vigilante in post-Collapse Manhattan, themes of healing and found family, and comps including Jessica Jones, Firebreak, and The Memory Hunters.

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· 18d

What if trauma became coded runes on your skin? And an authoritarian regime hunted the marked, harvesting your grief to fuel its power? JESSICA JONES × ARCANE They call her SCARella. She’s the only one who gives a damn about post-Collapse Manhattan’s disappearing girls. 🧵 #QuestPit #A #SFF

Cyberpunk fantasy poster featuring the vigilante SCARell standing in a flooded tunnel, gripping a flaming machete. A glowing sigil appears on her chest and along her arm. Title reads SCARELLA: THE MACHETE MARAUDERESS with the tagline: “Some things don’t just break you. They remake you.”

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· 19d

Part of my month-long writing break is spending time here. Quiet water. Fresh air. No deadlines. Just a chance to refill the creative well. 🌿📚✨ #WritingCommunity #Writers

A peaceful lake reflects a lush green forest beneath a bright blue sky. A wooden dock extends into the calm water, with a blue paddleboard resting along the edge. The scene is quiet, serene, and surrounded by nature.

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· Jul 7

Four weeks ago, I paused social media and vanished into my editing cave. One deep revision later, my book is stronger than ever. 💪📚✨ Huge thanks to the editor whose feedback inspired this final revision. #WritingCommunity #AmEditing

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· Jun 1

Walked through a field of peonies yesterday. The newly opened flowers reminded me that this world can still be breathtaking. 🌸 #Peonies #NatureLover #Photography #WritingCommunity

Collage of a woman smiling in a sunny peony field, surrounded by close-up photos of pink and white peonies in bloom. The flowers are full and bright, with green leaves and a soft outdoor garden background.

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· May 30

The emotional turning point: Where your character has to feel something deeply… …and you’re sitting there like: “Cool. I’ll just emotionally devastate myself real quick.”

Four-panel comic in purple and white. In the first panel, a cheerful character says, “I’m gonna go out and see people!” In the next panels, a large dark figure labeled “WORK LOAD” laughs and looms over them. In the final panel, the workload lies on the floor laughing while the character says, “Okay, well it’s not THAT funny.”

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· May 29

Some days, the writing part feels like the easy part. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Writers #AuthorLife #WritingLife

Photo of hands typing on a laptop with a Word document open. Large text on the screen reads: “I came here to WRITE. Not to be a content creator. Definitely not to audition for the algorithm daily.”

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· May 28

Throwback to Hyder, Alaska, where the views were wild and unforgettable. One of those places that makes you feel tiny in the best possible way. Travel has a way of reminding me how big the world is, and how much #kindness matters. 🌲🏔️ #Writers #Travel #NatureLover #photography

A woman stands on a rocky overlook above a deep blue lake in Hyder, Alaska, with forested mountains, cliffs, patches of snow, and a bright blue sky in the background.

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· May 26

Or waking from a dead sleep at 2 AM because your chaos brain decided NOW is the perfect time to become a speed-running hamster with plot notes.

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· May 25

Nothing like a sauna, a swim, and a view like this to make #MemorialDay feel memorable. 🌲✨ #photography #naturelovers

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· May 24

18 years ago, my husband and I hiked the Chilkoot Trail from Alaska to British Columbia. 40 miles in 5 days. We forded rivers, crawled over snow bridges, faced avalanche zones, ran into a timber wolf, and had our tent attacked by a bear. Share your adventures. #writers #naturelovers #hiking

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· May 20

Just saw this on my way to work this morning. And somehow the whole day feels 100% lighter already. 🌈 #naturelovers #writers #photography

A wide suburban intersection beneath a dark stormy sky, with a soft rainbow stretching across the horizon above green trees and waiting cars. Traffic lights frame the scene while the wet pavement reflects the light after rain.

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· May 17

Okay #writers… real question. 📚✨ If you got the call tomorrow that your #book sold… What’s the VERY first thing you’d do? #WritingCommunity #amwriting

A woman with long blonde hair smiles softly in a cozy library filled with bookshelves and warm lighting. Text over the image reads: “Okay writers… real question. If you got the call tomorrow that your book sold… what’s the VERY first thing you’d do?”

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· May 17

Sunset bliss tonight. Colors folding into one another like a lover’s caress. 💕 #sunset #writers #photography #eveningvibes #naturelovers

Golden sunset over a winding river and tree-lined landscape, with dramatic orange and pink clouds glowing against a deepening blue evening sky. Dark silhouettes of buildings and hills frame the panoramic view.

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· May 6

Okay but this reminds me… Back in 2021, my son, hubby, and I built lightsabers at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and it was still one of the coolest experiences ever 😄✨ Of course I’m the green saber.

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· May 3

23 years ago today, I married my best friend. 💛 Once upon a time, we were both invited to a singles group… and the people who invited us never showed. We met each other instead. We talked for twelve hours, went to the beach the next day, and we built a whole life from that beginning.

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· Apr 29

Excerpt from SCARella 🔥 Where she starts to fracture… #QuestPit #A #DF #MythTech #WritingCommunity

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· Apr 29

JESSICA JONES × ARCANE Rats & rebels of Manhattan’s ruins call her SCARella: a vigilante whose trauma-made-visible glyphs link to her sentient flaming machete. She rescues trafficked girls from a grief-harvesting regime. If she doesn’t heal, she becomes their weapon. 🔥🐀 #QuestPit #Q #A #DF

Four-panel graphic for SCARella: The Machete Marauderess, a 94,000-word adult feminist noir fantasy with myth-tech elements. Includes a visual of two hands reaching toward a glowing butterfly with glyph markings, a pitch about a trafficking survivor turned vigilante in post-Collapse Manhattan, themes of healing and found family, and comps including Jessica Jones, Godkiller, and Wayward Children.

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· Apr 29

A trafficking survivor turned vigilante stalks Manhattan’s ruins with a sentient flaming machete to rescue girls from a grief-harvesting regime. When she joins a subterranean rebel, her trauma-made-visible glyphs mutate, threatening to remake her into the predator she hunts.🔥 #QuestPit #Q #A #DF

Dark fantasy poster featuring a scarred armored vigilante standing in a flooded tunnel, gripping a flaming machete. A glowing sigil appears on her chest and along her arm. Title reads SCARELLA: THE MACHETE MARAUDERESS with the tagline: “Some things don’t just break you. They remake you.”

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· Apr 18

Some things don’t just break you. They remake you. 🔥 ─── ⟐ ∞ ⟐ ─── ⟐ Trauma Made Visible ⟐ Healing as Rebellion ⟐ Found Family ⟐ Love as Presence JESSICA JONES × ARCANE A 94K-word adult feminist noir fantasy with myth-tech elements #PosterPit #A #DF #S

Dark myth-tech fantasy poster with glowing sigils and a dim subway tunnel fading into light. Text reads: SCARELLA: THE MACHETE MARAUDERESS. Tagline: “Her trauma became code. Her code became power. Now the system wants it back.” Comparable titles listed as Jessica Jones × Arcane.

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· Apr 18

JESSICA JONES × ARCANE Some things don’t just break you. They remake you. 🔥 ⟐ A vigilante wielding a sentient flaming machete ⟐ A city that feeds on grief ⟐ An heir to an underground rebellion ⟐ A prophecy that could mutate her into the predator she hunts #PosterPit #A #DF #S #MYTHTECH

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✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· Apr 18

They call her SCARella. She’s the only one who gives a damn about post-Collapse Manhattan’s disappearing girls. JESSICA JONES × ARCANE Some things don’t just break you. They remake you. 🔥 #PosterPit #A #DF #S #MYTHTECH

Dark feminist noir fantasy poster featuring a scarred armored vigilante standing in a flooded, post-apocalyptic tunnel, gripping a flaming machete. A glowing sigil burns on her chest and along her arm, suggesting myth-tech power. Title reads SCARELLA: THE MACHETE MARAUDERESS with the tagline: “Some things don’t just break you. They remake you.”

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· Apr 14

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· Apr 5

Morning, #revpit hopefuls 😄 Let’s have some fun. Write a six-word story inspired by this image. I’ll start: This is how horror stories begin. Your turn 🤣 #sixwordstory #caturday #revpitwaiting

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· Mar 31

Morning, #revpit hopefuls 😄 Loving the funny quotes I’m reading today! Here’s one from my novel. #revpitwaiting

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· Mar 29

Morning, #revpit hopefuls 😄 Let’s do something fun today… Write a six-word story inspired by this image. I’ll start: Inner peace interrupted by hooves. Your turn 🤣 #sixwordstory #revpitwaiting

✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨@joyshaw· Mar 29

Some days writing means living in the clouds while everyone else lives on Earth. ☁️✨