Bio
Jo Morgan Sloan is an audiologist, an artist, and a novelist in Northern California. Their debut novel was a second-chance transgender romance released by Midnight Meadows Publishing in December 2024. They published a second unrelated novel, Stableshoes, with SloanScript in August 2025. Their literary fiction drama, Scars & Honey, is many years in the making and will be released June 3rd 2026. Jo’s essay work can also be found in online periodicals Drunk Monkeys, HerStry, and the Four Palaces Publishing anthology, "When Home Hurts".
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Jo has written several novels, short stories, poems and essays. Please see the "Work" tab and Blog for samples and more information.
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The Key
Freshly cheated on and ready for change, hopeless romantic Jaxson relocates to San Francisco, the same place his teenage sweetheart moved to years ago. He tries not to think about the one who got away, but he can't help but hold his breath around every street corner, praying he might see her striking eyes again.​
​Doing his best to start anew, Jax joins a local gaming guild and meets Tabby, whose hot-and-cold nature says he doesn't like Jax very much. But despite Tabby's reluctance to show Jax the ropes of living in the bay, talking to him is too easy—like they once knew each other in another life.​The fact Tabby is a trans gay man makes no difference. In fact, Jax is more than happy to help Tabby's clueless boyfriend Rob be better. But something hides behind Tabby's colorful contacts that reminds Jax of the love he thought was lost forever.​Separated by time, distance, and drastic changes, can soulmates reunite and keep their promise to love one another—no matter what?
Stableshoes
Prince Darian has met all the requirements necessary to claim his father’s throne; at least, he thinks he has, until his sinister cousin Bertram reveals a law that states Darian must marry by his twenty-fifth birthday, or lose the crown.
With only four weeks to find a bride, Darian turns to his beautiful, irreverent, clever friend Ashley for help before a grand ball is to be thrown in his honor. But there is another who catches the prince's eye: living in perpetual silence is Eric, the stronghold stableman, whose kindness disrupts Darian’s plans to hide his nature.
Each day that passes is another day closer to Bertram’s takeover, and he’s counting on Darian to fail. While Eric has the prince’s heart, the stableman also carries a secret mark that could jeopardize Darian’s claim to the throne. To protect the nation he loves from a tyrant, Prince Darian must choose between true love and living a lie.
"Amund once told me a new relationship is like a budding flower.
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It could be a bouquet that stands with many others and gets lost in the crowd of relationships that eventually shrivel and die.
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It could be plucked and made to be alone after only a short time of basking in beauty.
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Or, if it’s meant to, the flower will be deeply planted, nurtured, and fed.
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It can keep growing and blooming into new and wonderful things you could never imagine."
Ky Lee - Scars & Honey
(Unpublished; still searching for the best home)
