Tony Bertauski

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  • Bibliography:
    40 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2010
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Claus

1 - Claus: Legend of the Fat Man (Jul-2012)
2 - Jack: The Tale of Frost (Oct-2013)
3 - Flury: Journey of a Snowman (Oct-2014)
4 - Humbug: The Unwinding of Ebenezer Scrooge (Nov-2016)
5 - Claus: Rise of the Miser (Dec-2017)
6 - Ronin: The Last Reindeer (Oct-2018)
6.5 - Christmas Presence (Oct-2019)
7 - Toyland: The Legacy of Wallace Noel (Dec-2019)
8 - Gingerman: In Search of the Toymaker (Nov-2020)
9 - Toymaker: Return of the Lost Toys (Nov-2021)

Foreverland

1 - The Annihilation of Foreverland (Apr-2012)
2 - Foreverland Is Dead (Jun-2013)
3 - Ashes of Foreverland (Mar-2015)

Halfskin

1 - Halfskin (Dec-2012)
2 - Clay (Jan-2014)
3 - Bricks (Sep-2015)
3.5 - Awake (Aug-2019)

Maze

1 - The Waking of Grey Grimm (Aug-2017)
2 - The Hunt for Freddy Bills (Mar-2019)
3 - The Essence of Sunny Grimm (May-2020)

Socket

1 - The Discovery of Socket Greeny (Jul-2010)
2 - The Training of Socket Greeny (Sep-2010)
3 - The Legend of Socket Greeny (Dec-2010)
3.5 - The Making (Aug-2019)

Book List in Order: 40 titles

  • The Discovery of Socket Greeny

    Socket - 1

    The Discovery of Socket Greeny is the first book in a young-adult scifi trilogy that explores love, angst and Zen-like acceptance of true nature in kick ass fashion. Reluctant readers, especially boys, will find this story compelling, enlightening, e...

  • The Training of Socket Greeny

    Socket - 2

    Book 2 in the Socket trilogy. A year has passed since the Paladin Nation was exposed to the public. Their mission is still to protect humanity from whatever may threaten them. Previously, it was the human duplications, but now that they've been extin...

  • The Legend of Socket Greeny

    Socket - 3

    Book 3 in the Socket trilogy. The Paladin Nation is rebuilding. Socket Greeny is leading them into a new era of compassion and understanding. But when Pike returns, Socket discovers nothing is what he expected, that his life has been planned from the...

  • Swift is the Current

  • The Annihilation of Foreverland

    Foreverland - 1

    FOREVERLAND IS DEAD (Book #2) is now available

    When kids awake on an island, they're told there was an accident. Before they can go home, they will visit Foreverland, an alternate reality that will heal their minds. Reed dreams of a girl tha...

  • Claus: Legend of the Fat Man

    Claus - 1

    For a limited time, save 10% to 40% on the boxed sets, Claus Boxed (Vol. 1 and Vol. 2)…

    In the early 1800s, Nicholas Santa discovered an ancient race of elven.

    Short, fat and hairy, they have lived peacefully on the North Pole since ...

  • Yellow

  • Halfskin

    Halfskin - 1

    Biomites are artificial stem cells that can replace any cell in your body. No more kidney failure, no severed spines or blood disease. No cancer. Pharmaceuticals become obsolete. With each dose of biomites, we become stronger, we become smarter and p...

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  • Foreverland Is Dead

    Foreverland - 2

    Six teenage girls wake with no memories. One of them is in a brick mansion, her blonde hair as shiny as her shoes. The others are in a cabin, their names tagged to the inside of their pants. Their heads, shaved. Slashes mark the cabin wall like someo...

  • Jack: The Tale of Frost

    Claus - 2

    The Jack Frost you never knew…

    Sura is sixteen years old when she meets Mr. Frost.

    He’s a strange man. Very short, very fat. And he likes his room cold. Some say inhumanly cold.

    Mr. Frost’s love for Christmas is over-the-to...

  • Clay

    Halfskin - 2

    Jamie wants to be a halfskin. Her life has become dull and pointless. If she had more biomites -- synthetic stem cells that promise hope -- she could take control of her life. But Jamie’s body is already 49.9% biomites. The rest is clay -- her God-...

  • Mediapiel

    ¿En qué punto dejamos de ser humanos?Las biomitas son células madre artificiales que pueden reemplazar cualquier célula en tu cuerpo; no más fallas renales, columnas vertebrales rotas ni enfermedades de la sangre, n...

  • The Catastrophe Theory

    Jared and Cassie have secrets.Those secrets are tested when the world is plunged into darkness. The green flash that lit up the sky short-circuits all technology -- cars, computers, pacemakers. Everything. They wait for help to come, but their daught...

  • Flury: Journey of a Snowman

    Claus - 3

    Life hasn’t been kind to Oliver Toye.As if juvenile diabetes isn’t enough, he’s forced to live with his tyrannical grandmother in a snow-bound house. He spends his days doing chores and the nights listening to the forest rumble.But when he disc...

  • Ashes of Foreverland

    Foreverland - 3

    Tyler Ballard was in prison when his son created a dreamworld called Foreverland, a place so boundless and spellbinding that no one ever wanted to leave. Or did. Now his son is dead, his wife is comatose and Tyler is still imprisoned.But he planned i...

  • Drayton

    Drayton doesn’t know what he is. Or why he has lived for thousands of years. He takes not his victim’s blood but the silky essence of their soul during their last breath. Often mistaken for the Angel of Death, his victims sometimes ask for forgiv...

  • Drayton, the Taker

    Drayton once believed he was a vampire. He doesn’t know what he is. Or why he has lived for thousands of years. He takes not his victim’s blood but the silky essence of their soul during their last breath. Often mistaken for the Angel of Death, h...

  • Bricks

    Halfskin - 3

    Fabbers, slabbers and fakies were dehumanizing slurs for fabricated humans. Bricks, however, was the People’s favorite.The Sentience Laws were created to protect the rights of Bricks, but the laws didn’t last long. Banished to the remote isolatio...



  • The Making of Socket Greeny

    Socket Greeny is not normal.His funny name and snow-white hair are the least of his problems. When a devious prank goes bad, Socket and his friends realize they are about to lose everything they’ve worked for in the alternate reality universe of vi...

  • Seeds of Foreverland

    Harold Ballard's breaking point came in the sixth grade. John Lively was a mouth-breather that no one cared about, an over-sized sixth grader voted most likely to see jail. In Harold's opinion, God had wasted a body on John Lively. Harold was a cu...

  • Humbug: The Unwinding of Ebenezer Scrooge

    Claus - 4

    The 4th standalone novel in the Claus Universe. The stories you never heard...Jacob Marley is dead. His business partner, Eb Scrooge, is left to run Avocado, Inc., an innovative technology business, all alone. An introverted shut-in locked away in a ...

  • The Waking of Grey Grimm

    Maze - 1

    Grey isn’t sleeping. Sunny Grimm finds a strap around her son’s head with an embossed symbol between his eyes. This is the mark of awareness leaping, where players launch into alternate realities and anything goes. Investors make millions. Critic...

  • Claus: Rise of the Miser

    Claus - 5

    Christmas is hot.When Kandi’s dad gets a mysterious call, they fly to a tropical island where the buildings are enormous and the rooms empty. Despite the heat, his sunburned client wears a heavy cloak.Kandi meets a boy living all alone in one of th...

  • The Roots of Drayton

    Drayton can’t leave the Lowcountry.He once believed he was a vampire when he terrorized villages and slaughtered for blood. Now he absorbs essence from the dying’s final breath and rarely stays in one place. He has been in the Lowcountry far too ...

  • Ronin: The Last Reindeer

    Claus - 6

    The 6th standalone novel in the Claus Universe. The holiday legends you never heard growing up.


    This is Ryder’s last stop.

    It’s a half million acre ranch and home to forty teenagers. It’s also home to a famous and ...

  • The Hunt for Freddy Bills

    Maze - 2

    If you liked Neuromancer and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, you’ll love the MAZE…Freddy Bills is retired. Back in the day, he was fishing people out of unreality tanks and pulling needles from their heads. That was when it was agai...

  • Awake

    Halfskin - 3.5

    Why can't she Wrigley Dominykovas remember?She graduated college, had a career. Now she's on a farm. She doesn't remember how she got there or why she's living with her mother. A doctor makes an unusual housecall to take a blood sample. She'll rememb...

  • The Making

    Socket - 3.5

    The Soldier wakes on the battlefield.He's a pawn in a larger conflict with no memory of where he was before coming online. His exoskeletal armor forces him into combat. Only when he engages free will does he break out of automode.And things get weird...



  • Old Bastards

    This is an introduction to the Foreverland trilogy, a mind-bending journey into the cyberspace of identity and greed.

    Thomas woke on an island.

    His arms and chest bleeding, legs exhausted, he hears his name called from the tropical jun...

  • Christmas Presence

    Claus - 6.5

    This is an introduction to the Claus Universe, a series of original retellings of holiday legends.Worst Christmas ever.Christmas was about traditions. Currently, Zay and her mom had about five traditions, things like gingerbread cookies and tree...

  • Toyland: The Legacy of Wallace Noel

    Claus - 7

    The 7th standalone novel in the Claus Universe.

    If you want to play, and stay out all day, I know the place where we can do it.

    Great aunt Annie was a storyteller.

    It was mostly Christmas stories she told. No one had ever heard h...

  • The Essence of Sunny Grimm

    Maze - 3

    Fans of Neuromancer, Inception, and the Matrix... the mind-bending conclusion of the Maze.A name was tattooed on his finger.Marcus woke in a cell. No memory of how he got there or what his name was. Just a tattoo. There were others like him. They cal...

  • Gingerman: In Search of the Toymaker

    Claus - 8

    The 8th standalone novel in the Claus Universe. His real name is Christmas. It's embarrassing. He's been accepted into the Institute of Creative Mind, a prestigious institute for eccentrics, outliers, and gifted students. A school located in the mid...

  • Claus Boxed 3

    The Christmas adventures continue. The third volume of the holiday tales you never heard growing up...TOYLANDWhen Tin's family inherits an enormous rural estate, they discover the hidden treasures of Toyland. The eccentric mansion was built long ago ...

  • Toymaker

    The 9th standalone novel in the Claus Universe. It started with a present. A mystery gift appeared under trees one Christmas morning. People around the world received one. These lucky recipients didn't know who gave it to them, but they all received ...

  • Toymaker: Return of the Lost Toys

    Claus - 9

    The 9th standalone novel in the Claus Universe.It started with a present.A mystery gift appeared under trees one Christmas morning. People around the world received one. These lucky recipients didn't know who gave it to them, but they all received th...

  • ToyWorld

    Hiro's parents rearrange the furniture every December.They make space in the corner for something tall. They plug in string lights and leave them on the floor. Sometimes, they cut down a tree but don't know what to do with it. It's not just Hiro's pa...

  • ToyWorld: Home of the Christmas Thief

    Hiro's parents rearrange the furniture every December.They make space in the corner for something tall. They plug in string lights and leave them on the floor. Sometimes, they cut down a tree but don't know what to do with it. It's not just Hiro's pa...



  • Nutcracker

    The 11th standalone novel in the Claus Universe.Once upon a time, there was a toy store filled with magical playthings and fantastical stories. But not anymore. That was a long time ago.When Marie arrived, the place was cobwebs and empty shelves. Lit...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Tony Bertauski has published 40 books.

Tony Bertauski does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Nutcracker, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Tony Bertauski, The Discovery of Socket Greeny, was published in July 2010.

Yes. Tony Bertauski has 5 series.
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