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Seven Series continues to Rock!

This week only, the Seven Series is featured on iBookstore.
Check it out on your iPad, iPhone or iTunes.
Don't have iTunes! An account is free on your computer, as is the iBooks app.
Lost Cause and the other 7 Series books have been selected for the 2013 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers List by the American Library Association.
50,000 sales and counting!
More detail on the Seven Series on this blog and on my website.

Feature on iBookstore

This week only, the Seven Series is featured on iBookstore.
Check it out on your iPad, iPhone or iTunes.
Don't have iTunes! An account is free on your computer, as is the iBooks app.
More detail on the Seven Series on this blog and on my website.

A Solution to Stress!

Worried about the World Situation?No need. The answer is—BOOKS
Whether you like virtual books or traditional books,
whether you live in North America or the United Kingdom,France or Germany
Italy or SpainIndia or Japan,whether you have a Kindle, Nook, Kobo, or anything else,
même si vous parlez françaisthere's a book for you to escape into.
Enjoy Lifeand remember SING AS IF NO-ONE'S LISTENING

A Solution to Festive Stress!

Worried about Christmas?No need. The answer is—BOOKS
Whether you like virtual books or traditional books,
whether you live in North America or the United Kingdom,France or Germany
Italy or SpainIndia or Japan,whether you have a Kindle, Nook, Kobo, or anything else,
même si vous parlez françaisthere's something for you.

Enjoy and have a wonderful Festive Seasonand SING AS IF NO-ONE'S LISTENING

Website upgrade and cool photo

In preparation for Christmas, I've reworked the eBook pages of my website, adding more links, a couple of titles in French, and books that my publishers have uploaded, mainly here. Also a page dedicated to The Heretic's Secret Series, three more episodes of which will be uploaded soon. Enjoy, stock up on Christmas presents and feel free to pass on any comments.
The photo has nothing to do with all this, I just think it's cool.

New episodes of The Heretic's Secret

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Parts 5, 6 and 7 of THE HERETIC’S SECRET, Dragon's Head, Al-Andalus and Stigmata, are now available for Kindle on Amazon worldwide and other formats through Smashwords.
Find out more about Adso, John and Peter's adventures and how to pick up copies in the appropriate form on my website.
If you haven't started the series that Quill & Quire called “…astonishingly nuanced and masterfully told.” and the Globe and Mail said was "…a brave book, an unsettling book, and one that is very much needed at this time", Part 1, Gathering Storms, is available for free in any format here.

COMING SOON The final four episodes of this epic series will be coming in early 2013. Check back here for details.

Remembrance Day reads

Here are four award-winning novels for Remembrance Day—one set in WWI, one set in the Spanish Civil War and two set in WWII. All look at the complexity of conflict and the difficult moral decisions soldiers must make. Lest we Forget!


And in the Morning. A young soldier's experiences between 1914 and 1916, told in the form of a diary as he goes from a naive boy to a bitter shell-shocked man. "A compelling, fascinating, and ultimately disturbing book that is not to be missed." Library Journal.
Available at:
Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk
Smashwords.com



Lost in Spain. Ted and his father are caught in the first chaotic week of revolution and war in Spain in 1936. Can Ted resolve his father's pacifism with the struggle he finds himself in? "Wilson offers a unique perspective on this fascinating era…even minor characters are brought to life." Library Journal
Available at:
Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk
Smashwords.com



Flames of the Tiger. Over the course of a single night in 1945, by the flickering light of a burning tiger tank, a young German soldier tells his life story in an attempt to keep a wounded Canadian alive. "…a compelling and thoughtful story of war that will appeal to a wide range of readers." Quill & Quire.
Available at:
Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk
Smashwords.com



Four Steps to Death. During the Battle of Stalingrad, two soldiers—one Russian and one German—and a boy caught in the middle, struggle to survive the largest battle in human history. "Four Steps to Death is a thoroughly anti-war novel…Wilson shows just how miserable and futile the practice of war is for those who must fight." Quill & Quire.
Available at:
Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk
Smashwords.com

The Magnificent Seven!

 6 of the 7 in Oshawa. l to r: Ted Staunton, John Wilson, Richard Scrimger, Shane Peacock, Sigmund Brouwer and Eric Walters (missing Norah McClintock)Awesome week of touring in southern Ontario by 6 of the 7 Series authors. In total, 96 presentations to over 6,000 kids from Kingston to Oshawa and grades 3 to 12. Four evening presentations and a launch to hundreds of kids, parents and teachers. Plus a special presentation by all 7 authors at the International Festival of Authors in Toronto. How cool is that? Wild enthusiasm everywhere. We'r
e aiming for a stadium tour with light show next! 
The 7 Series is already in its second printing and inquiries about translation and film rights are being looked at. Seven books by seven top YA authors, published on one day—something different (unique!) does work.
A beloved grandfather dies and leaves an envelope for each of his seven grandsons. Each boy is given a task or quest (same order as photograph). —Spencer is told to get a kiss from an ageing film star and film it, but a gun, gangsters and a road trip to a ghost  town get in the way (JUMP CUT by Ted Staunton)—Steve must head to Spain and uncover what his grandfather was involved in there during the Spanish Civil War in 1938. He finds a forgotten diary and meets a beautiful girl ( LOST CAUSE by John Wilson)—Bunny, Spencer's brother, has to get a tattoo, but he ends up with the wrong one, which says he is part of a street gang and has killed someone ( INK ME by Richard Scrimger).—Adam goes to France where he discovers he has three near impossible tasks and must make amends for a dark episode in his grandfather's past (LAST MESSAGE by Shane Peacock).—Webb, armed with only his guitar, must traverse the Canol Trail in the far north and confront terrible events in his grandfather's past ( DEVIL'S PASS by Sigmund Brouwer).—DJ, Steve's twin brother, is given the task of scattering the grandfather's ashes from the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Simple but, as DJ finds out, by no mean easy ( BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH by Eric Walters).—Rennie, the grandson no one knew about, flies to Iceland to deliver a message from beyond the grave. Once there he finds himself in serious danger and must try and work out who he can trust ( CLOSE TO THE HEEL by Norah McClintock).
Read them in any order and read them all. Find samples and buy them here.

SEVEN SERIES and Dodging Arrows!

The Seven Series (a first in Canadian publishing history) is now on bookshelves (and into its second printing already!). Off to Toronto for a school tour, presentation at the International Festival of Authors in Toronto the week after. The official launch of the series is at Ben McNally Bookstore [366 Bay St. 12th floor, Toronto] on Friday, October 26 from 6 to 8 p.m. Check out the series trailer, samples, reviews and more on the Orca Books website. Victorio's War, the third book in the Desert Legends Trilogy is a YA Book of Note from the Tri State YA Book Review Committee—"Masterful storytelling…Readers will smell the dust, hear the whistling bullets and arrows, and experience the conflicted loyalties that are all a part of Jim's story. An outstanding fast paced tour of the Old West that will appeal to all ages."Of the same novel, Booklist said, "Wilson is skilled at bestowing upon them {the book's characters} grand, memorable gestures. This is a fine time dodging arrows along the sunbaked trail."

The SEVEN SERIES is here!

The Seven Series (a first in Canadian publishing history) is now on bookshelves (and into its second printing already!). I will be presenting Lost Cause (with Shane Peacock and Richard Scrimger) at the Vancouver International Writers' Festival on Granville Island next Tuesday, and off to Toronto for a school tour, presentation at the International Festival of Authors in Toronto the week after. The official launch of the series is at Ben McNally Bookstore [366 Bay St. 12th floor, Toronto] on Friday, October 26 from 6 to 8 p.m. Check out the series trailer, samples, reviews and more on the Orca Books website.