Justin Sloan Books in Order

A young girl receives a magical necklace that allows her to become a bird. Through the transformation and the discoveries it brings, she begins to understand loss, family, and the ways love can endure after tragedy.

Sloan draws on his experience and interviews with working writers to explain how to prepare for creative careers in books, film, and games. The guide examines developing useful samples, improving craft, presenting professional work, and becoming ready for opportunities.

When children are threatened by the creatures of Monsterland, their teddy bears become unlikely protectors. Ari must help rescue Rick and Tiffany, confronting dangerous monsters in a secret world where beloved toys come alive after dark.

A magical necklace gives new student Allie Strom extraordinary abilities just as she learns her mother has disappeared overseas. Joined by her friend Daniel, she sets out to rescue her and confront a fallen angel using someone they know.

Allie and Daniel return to school hoping for normality, but magical training and a dangerous destiny intervene. As children disappear and Samyaza seeks the Tenth Worthy’s power, Allie must decide whether she can accept the responsibility of opposing him.

Working writers discuss careers in film, television, video games, novels and comics through interviews and practical advice. Their experiences reveal different routes into creative industries and the challenges of building a sustainable life around writing.

Military veterans who became writers, actors, producers and other creative professionals share their experiences of changing careers. Their interviews offer practical guidance for people leaving military service who want to pursue work in entertainment and the arts.

A young girl's Christmas morning brings a devastating discovery that overturns her understanding of herself. This werewolf short story follows the resulting struggle over her identity and the kind of life she will choose to lead.

The magical teddy bears return to protect the children in their care when a ghost threatens Halloween. The Teddy Defenders must face this supernatural danger and find a way to keep the youngsters safe.

Allie Strom’s battle against evil carries her through Japan, the spirit world, and the underworld. Facing the fallen angels who have risen after Samyaza’s defeat, she must embrace her destiny as the Tenth Worthy to protect the world.

Rohan’s defeated enemy returns as a ghost with a tablet capable of changing the afterlife. Reluctant necromancer Nora becomes his best hope as they race to stop a plan that could turn the living world into a realm of death.

Seeking a way to restore his dead fiancée, Rohan becomes entangled with a man willing to breach hell for his own lost love. Guided by a ghost and a monk, he must master unfamiliar powers before disaster spreads.

Narcel wants to escape his homeland’s wars, but captivity forces him into training with the warriors he hates. As new loyalties form and legends of the gods draw him onward, a clash with his childhood home demands an impossible choice.

Hunted by the Mawtu army, Narcel travels north with the woman he loves in search of a legendary divine realm. Unfamiliar magic and dangerous enemies draw them into a struggle involving a displaced king, family rivalry, and the gods themselves.

A fragile peace collapses as the dark power of the Six spreads through the land. Equitas and Semreh reunite against overwhelming enemies, confronting creatures from beyond their world and a dragon in a struggle that threatens far more than themselves.

The Teddy Defenders face a new holiday threat when pirates endanger Christmas. Protecting the children once again means taking on dangerous adversaries, as the magical bears work together to stop their enemies and save the celebration.

With spirits and demons overrunning the world, Rohan and Nora are stranded and struggling to survive. Finding others with supernatural abilities may offer the allies they need to banish the invaders before their struggle becomes an eternal defeat.

A mission to recover a time capsule leaves Quinn imprisoned by a rogue resistance faction. When his daughter Samantha is captured while trying to help, he must escape and cross the hostile Wyoming badlands to bring her home.

Space Marines and resistance fighters struggle to cooperate against the Syndicate while planning a strike on an alien outpost. As Samantha discovers unexpected abilities, the Potentate manipulates events across time, threatening to unravel the humans’ fragile advantage.

An alien invasion turns Marine sergeant Quinn’s service into a fight for humanity’s survival. Determined to give her young daughter a future, she confronts an overwhelming enemy whose campaign threatens to erase the world she knows.

Katherine believed she had ended the Hounds of God, but a wider network reveals that the curse is evolving. An alliance with a vampire offers answers, while growing enemies force her to question what she must become to prevent war.

Determined to defend Earth, Sam joins a secret team of human and alien warriors protecting the galaxy. Training reveals powers and dangers beyond her expectations, and she must master her abilities before threatened worlds are destroyed.

Samantha leads her warriors into the Shadow Worlds, facing engineered aliens, space pirates and dragons. Her alien armor offers powerful upgrades, but surviving the mission also means discovering more about the mysterious origins of her abilities.

A message hidden in a temporal artifact gives Quinn and the Space Marines a new way to resist the alien invasion. As they seek former enemies as allies, her stranded daughter joins guerrilla fighters amid the ruined cities.

Former Marine Reeve Williams enters a virtual battlefield designed for safe military training, only to become trapped when the simulation is hacked. With players disappearing and enemies changing, he must find survivors and stop the attack from within.

Marick and Alicia return to space to lead an assault on New Origins, backed by enhanced soldiers, hackers, and former criminals. A rival station’s criminal leader opens another front, leaving them fighting interconnected wars on Earth and above it.

Told her husband has died on a space station, Alice organizes technical assassins to force answers from the corporation responsible. Her campaign collides with genetically engineered soldiers and rival hackers, whose competing claims to justice threaten to ignite a larger conflict.

Marick and Alicia flee with information their powerful enemies will kill to suppress. Seeking help from her FBI sister on Earth brings them against elite soldiers and bounty hunters, making survival depend on finding allies in an expanding war.

Marine Sergeant Nathan Collins must organize a colony’s defense when its newly terraformed planet comes under threat. With his brother beside him and alien technology capable of manifesting weapons, he faces a battle that could determine humanity’s future in space.

Samantha and her covert team confront the mind-controlling Scrapulent and a fleet of space pirates threatening the Three Kings of Orion. Their rescue mission may also bring her closer to discovering the truth about her father.

Earth’s first colonization mission through a gateway to the stars becomes a struggle for survival on hostile worlds. Marines confront strange creatures and ancient conflicts, while a genetically engineered threat on Earth may hold the key to the wider war.

Bounty hunter Marisol captures a Runner paid to take responsibility for a wealthy person’s crime. His dangerous secret exposes New Chicago’s corruption, turning the pair into targets as enhanced assassins hunt them before they can reveal the truth.

After escaping New Chicago, Marisol and Elias enter a quarantine zone filled with enhanced predators, assassins, and deadly machines. Finding other survivors offers a chance to resist a dictator whose hidden weapon threatens far more than their city.

Marisol’s enhanced blood and Elias’s developing powers give their allies a fighting chance, but defeating Longman requires returning to New Chicago. They undertake a desperate mission to stop an ancient weapon capable of destroying their world.

Major Corbin lives alone as a surveyor on a colony dominated by superpowered rulers. A mysterious substance grants him abilities and reveals an approaching threat, while his awakening powers draw the attention of an ancient, potentially deadly being.

After hunting alien threats across space, Sam faces an enemy approaching humanity’s doorstep. The Shadow Corps must prepare on distant planets, accept new allies and make painful sacrifices if they hope to prevent the destruction of their people.

New alliances and powers give Earth’s scattered defenders hope until buried history reveals a greater threat. Shrina confronts a rising dragon, Espinoza explores an alien world, and Trent seeks an army capable of resisting the Exiles.

Stranded beyond a gateway to the stars, Espinoza and his fellow Marines struggle to survive and reconnect with Earth. As Shrina searches for her sister and Trent discovers unfamiliar powers, separate mysteries point toward a conflict larger than their mission.

Corbin and Seena face a revolution, a mysterious Citadel representative, and a super with frightening power. To preserve their freedom, they must win influential support within the VRC while concealing the source of their own abilities.

Alien artifact thief Kaylin Ramirez is framed after a heist and blamed for a missing weapon of devastating power. Facing execution, she must recover the Virtue of War by undertaking the most dangerous theft of her career.

A Marine’s holiday in Thailand turns into a fight for survival when terrorists trap him on dangerous islands. Joining forces with a local ally, he uses his training to protect innocent lives and strike back at the conspirators.

A team of spacefaring SEALs investigates strange interference and metallic pyramids on an unfamiliar planet. Missing comrades and hostile robotic animals turn the mission into a fight for survival, with the mystery inside the structures threatening even their experienced unit.

The Exiles intend to reopen the portals and impose their rule across the universe. Shrina, Trent, and Espinoza must bring their different powers and allies together, despite rebel divisions and uncertainty about whether their new companions can be trusted.

Hedge-fund employee Tommy joins his boss on an alien safari hosted by an extraordinarily wealthy patron. The adventure becomes a deadly reversal when the planet’s indigenous hunters target the visitors, forcing Tommy to protect people he has come to care about.

As interstellar war spreads and alliances fracture, Trent struggles to decide where his loyalties belong. On Earth, Shrina’s investigation into vampire origins reveals another threat, while their enemies prepare to determine who will control the worlds that survive.

After preventing the Ascendency from using the Virtue of War, Kaylin is captured and taken to an alien world. Discovering scientists working to reproduce the powerful weapons, she must escape and sabotage their research before their plans succeed.

A woman returns from the wastelands to a ruined Chicago in search of her past. Rival warlords are fighting for control, forcing her to choose an allegiance or forge her own path through the city’s dangerous power struggles.

Teenager Kevin’s ordinary struggles in foster care end when alien assassins target him with living machines. Escaping to a secret base beneath Mount Fuji, he receives the chance to pilot a powerful mech and defend Earth against the approaching threat.

Stranded on a distant planet, Sera Varse searches for her brother while uncovering secrets that could determine humanity’s future. Elsewhere, rival factions and personal vendettas converge around a powerful artifact, threatening to plunge their worlds into war.

Centuries after the destruction of the solar system, three human factions maintain an uneasy peace through mysterious artifacts. The appearance of a fourth brings disappearing ships and an expanding threat that could destroy their surviving worlds.

Sera Varse undertakes a covert mission to expose a secret order undermining humanity’s three factions. Joining Touma Kudo beyond a Federation wormhole, she must stop a rogue general as spreading warfare threatens to destroy entire worlds.

Raised to hunt monsters, Katherine discovers that her own ability to transform makes her a target. Searching for a cure draws her into a conflict involving hidden bloodlines, a ruthless half-vampire, and the very hunters who once raised her.