Wilson James was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and currently lives on the coast in northern California. He is a sailor, has worked in and around the water, and loves to travel.
The Author may be contacted by email: wilsonjames@mail.org
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Print: $14.99 Download: FREE Tragedy has struck the Watson family more times than any family should have to bear. Connor, the younger of the two young teen brothers, will have a chance to prevent a similar tragedy from happening to another family, but before he gets that chance, he will have to work hard to keep his own small family intact.
Connor will have to make some tough choices, and have to make a stand to support his new family, but will find support in unlikely places. He will know unhappiness and despair, but will ultimately find the strength to do what is needed. Join Connor in his search for happiness and a loving family.
“A Family Legacy: THE WATSON WORKS” is an unlikely story of family, adventure and courage displayed by young family members who have lost their parents in two separate tragedies. In coming to terms with their loss, they find the strength to help themselves and others, and at the same time build a new family to replace what they've lost.
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Print: $8.99 Download: FREE At age 9, Troy Evanson lost his father in an accident. Ever since then, he’s been steadily losing confidence in himself and his ability to make his way in the world. He’s stopped doing all the extra things he did with his Dad and he’s just barely hanging on. The kids at his school have started to pick on him, and Troy has become the victim of bullies. He hates school, and he hates being around people. Any kind of socializing has become torture.
Now, at age 12, he has a one-time chance to change his life and start new. Will he meet the challenge, or will remain the victim he has become? Will he be able to pull himself together and become the man that his Dad was trying to help him be, or will be forever be the lost little boy whose life ended when his father died?
Find out if this is the uplifting story we all hope for.
Find out what choices Troy makes in PLAYING THE ‘SON’ CARD.
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Print: $9.95 Download: FREE Cameron Connors is a young father trying to deal with a mother who likes the idea of children, but otherwise appears not to like her own. Cameron has managed to get his own two young sons away from his mother, but now he needs to rescue Brendan, his younger brother.
As Cameron has learned over the years, his mother can be quite two-faced, and heaven help anyone who crosses Mrs. Rachael Connors. Cameron and his mother are currently in a state of cease-fire, but that could change dramatically based on what Cameron has planned for the next few weeks in order to challenge his parents for custody of Brendan.
Will Cameron succeed in creating a new family of four, or will he lose? The stakes are high, and Cameron stands to lose custody of his own two sons if he is not careful. Follow the saga of Cameron as he struggles to do what he knows he must do, and what is right.
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Print: $7.95 Download: FREE ROBERT'S RIDE
First of a series of Short Stories dealing with the first years of Robert Sinclair.
Born in a small town in south-west Georgia, orphaned at five and finally adopted at seven. Those were the bare bones words to describe his first years. Finally one of the lucky ones to be picked out at his foster home, he is struggling to make sure his new adoptive mother likes him and wants to keep him, in spite of the fact that she really has no idea what to do with a child. She is well meaning, but rather emotionless. Robert desperately tries to figure out to to read her and please her. Some of his adventures are dramatic, but some of his experiences are simply the more normal adventures of dealing with a new home, a new school, and new friends. This first story, “ROBERT'S RIDE,” will be followed by others in the series. Refer back to Wilson James' storefront on Lulu to see if the next story has been published.
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Print: $14.95 Download: $1.00 Cameron Connors is a young father trying to deal with a mother who likes the idea of children, but otherwise appears not to like her own. Cameron has managed to get his own two young sons away from his mother, but now he needs to rescue Brendan, his younger brother. As Cameron has learned over the years, his mother can be quite two-faced, and heaven help anyone who crosses Mrs. Rachael Connors. Cameron and his mother are currently in a state of cease-fire, but that could change dramatically based on what Cameron has planned for the next few weeks in order to challenge his parents for custody of Brendan. Will Cameron succeed in creating a new family of four, or will he lose? The stakes are high, and Cameron stands to lose custody of his own two sons if he is not careful. Follow the saga of Cameron as he struggles to do what he knows he must do, and what is right.
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Print: $8.95 Download: FREE You are almost 14 years old. Your mother died six years ago, and you help look after your younger brother while you father works. He is a pitcher for a minor league baseball team, and he is trying to make it into the major leagues. Just when it seems that things are looking better, tragedy strikes again. Now, it’s all up to you. You have your own dreams, and you desperately care about your small family. Will you be able to make it work? The story of Devin Robinson as the kid pitcher for the San Francisco Giants becomes well known, but what was never told is the story of Devin and Jordan’s early years. They have long since reached adult age, and they have decided that the time is now right to put the journey of their beginning part of their lives into print. This is a story for baseball fans and anyone else who wants to read about personal courage and determination.
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Print: $19.98 Download: $4.99 Revenge, retribution, vindication, reprisal, vengeance, retaliation, punishment, settling of scores. Those were all words that could describe what action young Shane wanted to take after a family of drug lords attacked his own family. The question is: how does Shane do all that, and should he? This brave and daring young man needs to find some new meaning to his life, and he needs to recover emotionally and physically from the attack. Shane must also deal with his concern that he might still be in mortal danger himself. SHANE’S SCORE is a grand adventure and a story of personal courage that will take you from the small towns of New England to the streets of New Orleans to the stormy waters of the Caribbean. This is also a story of the importance of family and friends, and how working together can produce some amazing results and positive outcomes. Is just living the best way to settle the score? Join with Shane, and the journey of his young life in SHANE’S SCORE.
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Print: $16.99 Download: $2.00 Logan James has found himself on his own at an early age, after losing his beloved Papa. His first response it to allow the adults around him to take over, but he quickly begins to live his life on his own terms. He finds a family to look after him, and makes that family his own.
Logan is a very determined teenager, and he is going to make sure that the life that he could have had with his Papa is the one he is going to have now. Not without drama, this is a story of perseverance, personal courage, and family love.
Join Logan in this story and find out how he found and created a new family to more than replace what he’d lost.
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Print: $21.99 Download: $4.99 This book tells the story of Derek Murray and his family, starting just prior to the death of his father, and continuing through his teen years to early adulthood.
Derek was born and lived in a relatively small coastal community. He was not yet five when his mother died in childbirth, and he started helping to care for his younger brother even before his father died.
After his father’s death, he looked after Sean on his own, keeping the outside world fooled as to the circumstances in which they lived.
For the first year, they lived on their Dad’s savings, and then Derek started earning money through some part time work. First, he delivered papers, with Sean’s help. Then he also started getting part time work at the community recreation center, and eventually he got summer employment at a camp, and finally, he graduated early from high school and got full time work at the recreation center, where he stayed for a few years before the two brothers worked their way through college.
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