Justin Robert Shapland

Justin Robert Shapland is a writer with a focus on creating deep, lived-in fantasy worlds. He currently lives in Omaha, NE in the United States with his loving, supportive wife, Amanda, and their adorable son.

Growing up, Justin would often spend countless hours writing and creating movies with his cousin, Matt, and many of their friends. Although he was attending the Universities of Nebraska at Lincoln and Omaha for engineering and mathematics, he spent most of his spare time focusing on more creative efforts—writing, drawing, creating music, and designing a video game that would be the first steps into the world of The Age of Gods.

After over a decade of focusing on running his family’s child care and preschool while writing mostly short stories, Justin was encouraged by Amanda to step back into the world that they had created so long ago. It was that first attempt at the novelization of Arduous Odyssey (the original name of the video game) that would transform into the world of Aria and the characters that would become Fen, Aleesa, Isabel, Knox, and Amelie. Without the unending support of Amanda, and the encouragement of Matt to continue building the world that we had started, Justin never would have followed the dream that had always been unfulfilled.

Now, at the dawn of The Immortal Words, Justin is thrilled to invite all of you to enter the world that was over a decade in the making!