James WJ Wilson is a novelist, screenwriter and engineering leader.
For more than twenty years, he has built and led software teams across regulated finance, SaaS and digital businesses, where questions of trust, evidence, risk and human judgement are practical rather than theoretical.
His fiction explores people living inside systems—technological, institutional and social—that work well enough to become difficult to question.
Do Spiders Leave Footprints? is a literary speculative novel set in near-future London. Its characters live among AI systems that genuinely improve daily life, while confronting questions about memory, evidence, human judgement and the limits of what any system can know. The book favours human relationships, an accumulating sense of unease and the investigative pull of a mystery over conventional AI-apocalypse action.
His other works include The Club, a screenplay about class, loyalty, aspiration and escape over three nights in a West End nightclub. James lives in London.