Sean’s backlist can be found at FantasticFiction.com
Hi, I’m Sean Ellis
I combine a lifelong passion for science, the outdoors, and real-world military experience in more than forty action-adventure novels , with stories built from the places I’ve been and the things I’ve actually done.
Sean Ellis bills himself as an adventure novelist and would-be action hero. He is the author of more than forty action-adventure novels. An Army National Guard veteran with a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resources Policy from Oregon State University, he brings hard-won experience to high-stakes fiction. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona, where he divides his time between writing and finding new ways to court disaster.
About Sean Ellis
Five Fun Facts
Did you know he is also a Movie Star?
In 2006, during a deployment to Afghanistan, Sean’s National Guard platoon was assigned to provide transport and security for documentary filmmaker, Morgan Spurlock, during the initial filming of his movie, Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? Sean was Spurlock’s primary driver for several days, and while that entire sequence constitutes only a few minutes on screen, you can still spot Sean if you know where to look.
Did you know he is also a Gold Medal-winning Triathlete?
Sean has participated in several off-road adventure races and triathlons, more as a way of testing himself than competing with others, but in 2004, he earned a gold medal in the State Games of Oregon at a triathlon event, in the Team Mountain Bike Division. Yes, that was a real division, and yes, there were other teams (well, at least one) but a gold medal is a gold medal.
Did you know he also wrote Indiana Jones fanfic?
Raiders of the Lost Fanfic... Sean’s dream of writing action-packed adventure novels probably dates back to a time before the word “fanfic” was in the common vernacular. As a teenager in the mid 1980s, Sean wrote thirteen novella-length stories featuring Indiana Jones in three spiral bound notebooks. What became of those notebooks is a mystery that may never be solved. And probably shouldn’t be.
Did you know he is also a Treasure Hunter?
You remember the 1985 movie The Goonies, which featured a legendary pirate treasure on the Oregon coast? Well, the movie may have exaggerated some stuff, but according to local lore, there is a buried treasure on Neahkahnie Mountain near Tillamook, Oregon, and yes, Sean has looked for it.
Did you know he is also a talented musician?
Well, talented might be an exaggeration, but Sean is teaching himself to play the digeridoo. Why? Mostly because he needed five fun facts….
Project Spotlight 1:
Title: Icefall—Camp Zero #2
Genre: Science Fiction-Adventure/Young Adult
Status: ~79,000Finished and with the editor
Logline: The Rourke kids head to the Arctic for the next phase of survival training, unaware than an old enemy is stalking them.
Summary: After surviving a deadly attack by the mysterious Starlings, the Rourke kids head north for the next phase of training at the John Thomas Rourke Survival Academy (a.k.a. Camp Zero)—winter survival.
But when a paramiltary force attacks the remote Arctic training site, they will face the ultimate test of their newfound skills. Cut off from the outside world, outnumbered and outgunned, the group is forced deeper into the abandoned tunnels of a Cold War-era military base — where something has been waiting in the dark for a very long time.
Part survival thriller, part science fiction adventure, Camp Zero: Icefall is the second installment in the Camp Zero series — a story about family, courage, and the kind of strength that can only be forged under pressure.
For fans of Hatchet, The Maze Runner, and the classic adventure fiction of Jerry Ahern.
Project Spotlight 2:
Title: Ride the Dragon
The Survivalist (series) #37
Genre: Science fiction, Action-Adventure
Status: Finished and with the editor
Logline: Return to the world of survival expert John Thomas Rourke as he leads the resistance against authoritarian forces bent on enslaving the planet.
Summary: The thirty-seventh installment in the long running post-apocalyptic science-fiction adventure series finds “the Survivalist”—John Thomas Rourke, leading his extended family through troubled times in an increasingly dystopian world 650 years after a nuclear war nearly destroyed all life on Earth.
In this new world, where authoritarian forces are moving to subjugate all humanity, John Rourke travels to Mid-Wake—the undersea city where the American government survived the long centuries after the war—hoping to build an alliance of global resistance fighters.
While John carries out a daring raid on a Mid-Wake military base, back on the Continent, in the underground redoubt called Retreat 2, John’s adult children, Michael and Annie, along with John’s best friend, Paul Rubinstein, face a recently defeated enemy, now equipped with deadly energy weapons and bent on revenge.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Michael’s wife, former-KGB major Natalia Tiemerovna Rourke, guided by terrifying dreams, searches for the truth about the fate of her ex-husband Vladimir Karamatsov.