Jo Morgan Sloan
Author, Artist, Musician
Jo Morgan Sloan has always been enthusiastic about great writing and is proud to have turned this hobby into thousands upon thousands of words filled with life, love, and lessons.
Jo is an audiologist, an artist, and a novelist in Northern California. Their published novels, all currently standalone, are The Key, Stableshoes, and Scars & Honey. Jo’s essay work can also be found in online periodicals Drunk Monkeys, HerStry, and the Four Palaces Publishing anthology, "When Home Hurts".
They began writing with an expanded love story rooted in Marvel Comics' rendition of the Norse God of Mischief, Loki. They have rewritten these pieces and will publish a chapter every week on the blog.
Scars & Honey
Ky's traumas made him who he is. He lost his family as a child. Injuries disabled him. He lives in constant dysfunction alongside his longsuffering partner, Amund. Ky doesn't challenge his limitations. They are accepted, immovable facts.
Max, a young doctor, has everything he needs. He's well-off and good-looking. Talented and charming. There's no need to discuss the twin that he lost or his father's cancer. He'll be complete once he wins the heart of his best friend, Rigs.
When a DNA test reunites the lost brothers, Ky learns he wasn't orphaned. He was abandoned. The mask over Max's perfect life cracks. Logic can't solve everything, and Ky's shortfalls aren't permanent. Hope picks at the scars on his psyche and skin.
But what if healing feels worse than death?
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This award-winning drama features loss, mental health, trauma, therapy, love, family, gay romance, straight romance, tears, disabilities, and is written by an OwnVoice author.
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?
Naughty - The Saucy Collection, Vol 1.
Six high-heat stories with something for everyone.
Jace and Quinn risk getting caught while in a web meeting. Brielle and Kirstin try more than new clothes in a dressing room. Cody and Brayden play spin the bottle and learn more about themselves than they bargained for. John and Jane Doe take an elevator to ecstasy. Roommates Zach and Hayden call each other's bluff. And Alec is in for one hell of a birthday gift when his husband Val invites their friend Nikki to join them.
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.
It could be a bouquet that stands with many others and gets lost in the crowd of relationships that eventually shrivel and die.
It could be plucked and made to be alone after only a short time of basking in beauty.
Or, if it’s meant to, the flower will be deeply planted, nurtured, and fed.
It can keep growing and blooming into new and wonderful things you could never imagine."
Ky Lee - Scars & Honey
