Johnny B. Truant Books in Order

As vampires panic over their creators' threat of extinction, Maurice struggles to keep the Vampire Nation together. Reginald discovers unusual abilities that may explain the angels' demands, but conflict with humanity threatens to erupt before he understands them.

Overweight salesman Reginald Baskin is turned into a vampire to save his life, then discovers immortality preserves his physical limitations. As he learns to survive and uncovers unexpected abilities, the Vampire Council decides he should be destroyed.

Six months into his unlikely vampire life, Reginald faces dangers that political power cannot remove. Conspirators threaten Maurice's leadership while an ancient force endangers the entire Vampire Nation, sending Reginald, Maurice, and Nikki into buried myths and history.

Convinced their bagel deli is about to close, its workers abandon restraint and begin insulting and abusing customers. Their behavior unexpectedly attracts crowds, launching a runaway experiment in fame, merchandising and how much mistreatment the public will embrace.

Johnny B. Truant argues that the universe's indifference can free people from fear of embarrassment and failure. This short essay urges readers to stop waiting for permission, give their ambitions meaning, and act despite their small place in existence.

Vampire leaders secretly prepare to destroy humanity while Reginald and his friends face a choice between their own species and its intended victims. An elusive artifact might reveal the coming war's outcome, but finding it becomes a race against catastrophe.

Reginald, Maurice and Nikki take refuge in Luxembourg after the American Vampire Council is overthrown. A new American leader promises stability, but a dangerous faction threatens to force vampires into war against both prepared human armies and their immortal creators.

Written as a history from within the fictional world of The Beam, this book examines how pervasive connectivity changes society. Its imagined commentator explores technology’s influence on thought, daily life, and the boundaries of individual and collective identity.

Forty years after vampires defeated humanity, Reginald suspects their apparent peace cannot last. With humans controlled as a food source and rebels developing devastating weapons, he must confront old enemies and a future that could destroy both species.

Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant, and David Wright explain how to build a sustainable self-publishing career. The guide covers writing consistently, developing a backlist, reaching suitable readers, and treating publication and marketing as repeatable business processes.

After his wife's death reveals a painful betrayal, Ebon Shale retreats to the seaside town of Aaron. Its strange residents and shifting reality challenge his attempt to forget, raising doubts about what the town wants from him.

Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant document their attempt to write and publish a novel in thirty days while readers watch. Their account follows story meetings, false starts, revisions and collaboration, showing how a book develops under a public deadline.

Sloan is abruptly taken from Earth and forced to work for an abusive employer running a space shuttle company. Carrying unusual alien passengers across the galaxy becomes his unlikely route toward finding a way home.

Aspiring writer Cooper Bishop leaves his troubled Appalachian home with his friend Solomon, heading toward California. Their precarious road trip intertwines with the story Cooper is writing, testing what escape, imagination, and success can offer.

Platt and his collaborators examine the small improvements that helped them develop an independent publishing business. Advice covers distribution, advertising, outsourcing, product funnels, and writing systems, showing how authors can refine established practices rather than rely on a single breakthrough.

Platt and Truant study the writing behind Friends to explain how lasting characters and relationships are constructed. Episode-based lessons examine ensemble casts, romantic tension, emotional payoffs, and consistent voices, connecting sitcom techniques with the challenges of writing fiction.

Lily Whistler invests her inheritance in a seaside florist selling only white flowers. A powerful neighboring shop owner wants her gone, forcing Lily to rely on unlikely allies and her own ingenuity to protect her dream.

In 1980s Austin, Maurice finds companionship among human punks and begins to enjoy his immortal existence. The arrival of a wealthy vampire enemy revives an old grievance over stolen wine, threatening the fragile life he has built.

Nine strangers are taken from their lives and trapped in a maze of nearly identical rooms. While they search for connections and a route out, an unseen pursuer kills them one by one and demands truths they may be hiding.

Twelve guests arrive at an exclusive restaurant under different pretenses, including an alumni dinner, a job opportunity, and an anonymous warning about infidelity. Their gathering exposes troubling connections to a shared secret that none wants brought into the open.

In Prohibition-era Chicago, Maurice discovers that a vampire mafia is trafficking an addictive synthetic blood called Thrill. Stopping the trade could prevent a dangerous shift in vampire power, but the bootleggers have no intention of tolerating his interference.

Maurice visits the Chicago World’s Fair intending to sabotage it for French pride, then investigates a missing carnival performer. His chief suspect is H. H. Holmes, a man strangely resistant to vampire powers, forcing Maurice to find another way to stop him.

Seven friends enter a three-day vampire role-playing tournament, unaware that two real vampires are participating for reasons of their own. As contestants disappear into genuine danger, the players must distinguish the game’s invented threats from predators who can actually kill.

Gambler John Abbot's winning streak arrives just as aliens attack Las Vegas. Surviving requires more than casino chips, so he joins a mismatched group of locals trying to deliver a dying alien to Area 51.

Archer believes he has found lasting happiness with Hannah, but his reckless friends keep sabotaging important moments in their relationship. Their disastrous attempts to help force him to choose how to protect his future without losing the people closest to him.

Unregistered mechanic Cutter Dunn lives beyond a society's tracking systems. When a corporation exploits his work on driverless vehicles and tries to erase him, his invisible status becomes an advantage in preparing a response they cannot trace.

When someone manipulates Dr. Annabel Rice for information, Maurice and Reginald seek safety in unexpected fame. Turning viral vampire videos into a television show gives them public visibility, but dangerous pursuers may still find a way to reach them.

Former police officer Mason Shaw is trapped in a private prison offering a rehabilitation treatment that can destroy a person's identity. With help from a hacker's rebel group, he investigates what the company hides about patients who lose themselves.

Assassin brothers Emil and Robert pursue one final lucrative hit against a powerful senator. Seven competing teams share the same open bounty, while Emil's personal hatred of their target threatens the brothers' ability to complete the job and escape.

Two immortal gods are trapped on an island, repeating a daily task while tormenting and killing one another before returning to life. Their uneasy balance begins to unravel when a stranger arrives and disrupts the rules of their confinement.

College student Miranda reluctantly joins her parents at an isolated winter cottage, hoping to endure a tense family reunion. A blizzard traps them there while disturbing messages arrive and her parents’ increasingly strange behavior suggests they are hiding something dangerous.