Here you’ll find information on all my current writing projects. None of these are published, and all are in various stages of development. I am actively seeking representation for my work. Covers are mock-ups created by me using free-use image sources, including Pixabay, Unsplash, and free PNG & Font services. You can find all my image and text sources here. If you’re interested in any of my projects, you can email me at: slgormanwriting@gmail.com

Jeremy Jones has only ever wanted one thing in life: to follow in his older brother’s footsteps and attend Valor Academy, the top university for heroes. As a child, Jeremy was saved from a rare heart condition using an experimental procedure, resulting in the voltage of his pulse gaining superspeed. Adopting the moniker Pulse, he applies to Valor, but when his brother denies him entry, a scorned Jeremy turns rogue to prove himself a hero. It isn’t long before he finds trouble…

Or rather, trouble finds him. A group of notorious supervillains are looking to create a university to rival Valor. They’re failures too, and Jeremy might just be the key to their plan’s success

Iniquity is an Adult superhero story, exploring the grey area between hero and villain, good and evil. Set in a fictional, cyberpunk Los Angeles called Cielo Nuevo

“Isn’t that the beginning for all villains? A shattered dream? A crushed hope? That’s precisely what makes us dangerous.”

Check out the Pinterest Board and Spotify Playlist for Iniquity here

Erin Harper thought she was hallucinating when a glowing wolf landed on the wing of her airplane. After all, it was her first time flying and braving her fear of heights, so perhaps it was just the altitude? But when the wolf only she can see follows her to her family’s Alaskan cabin, the magic of the Northern Lights takes over the night sky, bringing along with it a mysterious flying boy and his Valkyrie. The boy, who calls himself Peter, speaks of Vikings, gods, magic, and a Realm hidden away in the stars. Erin is welcome to visit… if she dares.

A Realm of Stardust is a YA fantasy Peter Pan retelling rife with Norse mythology and set in a Neverland based on Iceland, called Villheim

“Oh, flying is the easy part,” Peter said, and a devilish grin sprouted on his freckled face. “It’s really the dragon you should worry about.”

Check out the Pinterest Board and Interactive Map for A Realm of Stardust, plus a Wiki of Neverland (Villheim) and a Spotify Playlist

Ophelia was a child when she decided to save the life of a human prince instead of drowning him like she was supposed to. Obsessed with the surface ever since, Ophelia hides out in a shipwreck, talking to the skulls of long-dead humans for company.

Years later, when she is approached by a witch with a deal to visit the prince’s castle, Ophelia can’t help but accept. However, she quickly finds herself out of her depth. Between assassination attempts, castle politics, and nefarious ghosts, surface life is nothing like under the sea… and it may just drive her mad

Mad as the Sea & Wind is an Adult fantasy mash-up of Hamlet and The Little Mermaid, set in 16th-century Kronborg Castle (Helsingør, Denmark)

“You’re insane, aren’t you?” the Queen hissed at her, and Ophelia stumbled back,  falling flat from her shaky legs. “You’re mad as the sea, he’s mad as the wind, and at this rate, together you’ll drag everyone down to the depths along with you.”

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Valeria’s dream was always to become a Dame and be assigned as a knight to the Metal guild, the largest of the guild islands. That’s the dream of all the knights-in-training on the Isle of Bellor, but when Val is assigned to a lesser Guild, the Glass guild, and her best friend Emalyn receives the Metal guild post instead, Val fears they may never see each other again. However, fate has other things in store, with war between the Guilds on the horizon and the Glass guild as the first to feel the fires of battle. Soon, Val finds herself on a mission to save her Guild, and the key to it might be Emalyn

Guilded is an Adult fantasy story, exploring a medieval-Italy inspired archipelago, with each island split by guild affiliation

“Peace is an illusion–a gilded layering. It can’t last forever and our glittering coat has already begun to chip. Soon we will witness what truly lies underneath, and I doubt it will be pretty.”

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Kerry Wixley has a secret. Well, she has a lot of secrets — she’s a sorceress, she’s a dancer, she does magic shows. To her, it’s all about exploring what it means to be a woman in 1920’s London, but to her father, she is shirking her duties in a line of sorcerers descended from Queen Boudicca herself. Kerry thinks her father and brother are overreacting, and that magic shouldn’t be kept secret…

But be careful what you wish for. When Kerry’s magic is discovered by a nefarious businessman and he binds her magic to his will, everything changes. Now Kerry finds herself as an assassin sent to defeat and capture her own kin, with her entire magical community on the line

Spellbound is an Adult fantasy story set in 1920’s London with ancient Celtic magic running through the veins of the descendants of Boudicca, a queen of the ancient British Celts

“And if there’s one thing we definitely don’t need, it’s all of London gaining the ability to perform magic. I don’t even want to speculate what would happen then.”

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Cassandra (Cassie) Drewitt was 21 when she received her glass eye, following a severe car crash that left her father in a vegetative state. Half a year later, Cassie has recovered, but as she adjusts to her glass eye, strange things keep happening…

Sometimes, Cassie can see out of her glass eye. Sometimes, she swears she can see the reflections in her mirror move. Often, she feels like her reflection is watching her — and she is right. When Cassie’s evil reflection crosses through her mirror and traps Cassie inside of it, Cassie quickly finds herself in a flip of her world, inhabited by reflections made of photons. Can Cassie find a way to cross the mirror and return home? Or will she be trapped in the mirror dimension forever?

Beyond A Glass, Darkly is an Adult fantasy story about the world beyond our mirrors and what a flipped world with physics like that may entail. Reflections are slaves to their physical counterparts, and they’re not happy about it

“Everyone has to wrestle with their own reflection in the mirror now and then. I suppose you’re just doing that a little more literally.”

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Vicki’s daughter, Marley, has a rare memory condition, called dissociative amnesia. It’s manageable, but Marley barely remembers her father, and Vicki fears one day she may be forgotten too. As Vicki grows more and more overprotective, she cannot bring herself to let Marley go off to college — or let herself move on from her late husband.

Enter Laurence: a lawyer who has just moved in a floor above, and Marley is determined to get her mother to date him, hoping to win her own freedom in the process. At first, everything goes well, but things take a turn when it seems Laurence is keeping secrets. While Marley often forgets difficult memories, Laurence has memories he wants to forget, and it’s terrorizing him deeply

Blissful is a family drama screenplay set in a snowy Chicago through the lens of Blissful Coffee Bar, tucked away in an alley (based on Hero Coffee Bar in Chicago). Each character is battling their own demons, and together, they may be able to support each other in their trauma

      Vicki: Marley represses bad memories now and then.

     Laurence: Sounds like bliss.

      Vicki: It’s really not.

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