
A sequel to I'll Be There, titled Just Call My Name, was published on August 5, 2014.

It was Amazon's best book of the year for middle graders and has spent over forty weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list. Her second novel, Counting By 7s, was published by Dial in August 2013. Her books are currently in print from 32 publishers in 24 languages. Sloan's debut novel, I'll Be There, was published by Little, Brown, and Company in the spring of 2011. She was the screenwriter of the 2014 Hallmark Hall of Fame Christmas movie: One Christmas Eve. The film first aired on Public Television sponsored by Chicago Public Television station WTTW. She was the writer and director of the film Heidi 4 Paws (2008), which is a retelling of the children's classic story of Heidi, written by Johanna Spyri in 1880, but with live-action dogs in all of the parts. Sloan was the screenwriter on Steve Irwin's feature film for MGM The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002). Sloan followed this up when she wrote and directed the independent film The Secret Life of Girls which debuted at the Seattle film Festival. She was the first woman to direct a live action film for Disney when she both wrote and directed the soccer film The Big Green (1995). Her film credits include writing Made in America (1993), and writing and producing Angels in the Outfield (1994). She received her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and after working briefly at Grey Advertising in New York City, moved to Los Angeles where she sold her first screenplay at 24 years old.

She spent her childhood living in California, the Netherlands, Turkey, Washington D.C. Goldberg and architect mother Robin Montgomery. Sloan was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan to psychology professor Lewis R.

Holly Goldberg Sloan (born 1958) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and New York Times bestselling novelist.
