Background
Robison Wells was born on April 4, 1978, in Utah, United States.
Robison Wells
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Wells graduated from the University of Utah in 2003 with a degree in political science, emphasizing in international relations, with a minor in history.
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States
Wells received a Master of Business Administration degree in marketing from Brigham Young University in 2009.
2012
Author Robison Wells holding a copy of Feedback, the sequel to Variant. Feedback is being released in October of 2012 by HarperTeen.
Robison Wells
Robison Wells
Robison Wells and Angela Eschler, Whitney Awards committee. Rob did an amazing job as Whitney president.
2012
Author Robison Wells holding a copy of Feedback, the sequel to Variant. Feedback is being released in October of 2012 by HarperTeen.
Robison Wells
Robison Wells
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Wells graduated from the University of Utah in 2003 with a degree in political science, emphasizing in international relations, with a minor in history.
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States
Wells received a Master of Business Administration degree in marketing from Brigham Young University in 2009.
Robison Wells and Angela Eschler, Whitney Awards committee. Rob did an amazing job as Whitney president.
(Until now, fate has been laughing at Walt Stewart. Unable...)
Until now, fate has been laughing at Walt Stewart. Unable to settle upon a single meaningful direction for his life, success has eluded him. Then, one day, just as his fiancee' walks out of his apartment and into the arms of his roomate, the phone rings and everything changes. Walt is offered a job that takes him to Alamito, New Mexico, a town beset with colorful, offbeat characters and a mystery that is begging to be solved.
https://www.amazon.com/Second-Thought-Robison-Wells/dp/1591564301/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(Conspiracy rumor holds that the world economy is tightly ...)
Conspiracy rumor holds that the world economy is tightly controlled by a group of economic terrorists. Eric Hopkins is about to find out just how true that myth is-and how close it stands to him. Eric and his girlfriend Rebekah believe they are safe hiding under the witness protection program. But when a bomb explodes, nearly killing them, they know they must rely on themselves to find out who has infiltrated the FBI. Their' shocking conclusion leads them on a dangerous chase.
https://www.amazon.com/Counterfeit-Robison-Wells/dp/1598111167/?tag=2022091-20
2006
(Benson Fisher thought that a scholarship to Maxfield Acad...)
Benson Fisher thought that a scholarship to Maxfield Academy would be the ticket out of his dead-end life. He was wrong. Now he's trapped in a school that's surrounded by a razor-wire fence, where video cameras monitor his every move - and where breaking the rules equals death. All Benson wants is to find a way out. But when he stumbles upon the real secret the school has been hiding, he realizes that escape may be impossible.
https://www.amazon.com/Variant-Robison-Wells/dp/0062026097/?tag=2022091-20
2011
(Benson Fisher escaped from Maxfield Academy's deadly rule...)
Benson Fisher escaped from Maxfield Academy's deadly rules and brutal gangs. He thought that the worst was over. But now Benson is trapped in a different kind of prison - a town filled with familiar faces. Classmates from Maxfield who Benson had seen die. Friends he was afraid he had killed. They are all pawns in the school's twisted experiment, held captive and controlled by an unseen force. And while Benson struggles to figure out who, if anyone, can be trusted, he discovers that Maxfield Academy's plans are darker than anything he imagined - and they may be impossible to stop.
https://www.amazon.com/Feedback-Variant-Book-Robison-Wells-ebook/dp/B007HB83VS/?tag=2022091-20
2012
(Something strange is happening to Krezi. She has a danger...)
Something strange is happening to Krezi. She has a dangerously high fever her doctors can't explain, and objects keep bursting into flames around her - but the fire doesn't seem to hurt her at all. Krezi wants nothing more than to control her mysterious abilities. But what she doesn't know is that there are others like her out there and in the wrong hands, this power could be deadly.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BATNPHK/?tag=2022091-20
2013
(Laura and Alec are highly trained in teenage terrorists. ...)
Laura and Alec are highly trained in teenage terrorists. Jack and Aubrey are small-town high school students. There was no reason for their paths ever to cross. But now a mysterious virus is spreading throughout America, infecting teenagers with impossible superpowers - and all teens are being rounded up, dragged to government testing facilities, and drafted into the army to fight terrorism. Suddenly, Jack, Laura, Aubrey, and Alec find their lives intertwined in a complex web of deception, loyalty, and catastrophic danger - where one wrong choice could trigger an explosion that ends it all.
https://www.amazon.com/Blackout-Robison-Wells/dp/0062026135/?tag=2022091-20
2013
(It began with a virus. Then a series of attacks erupted a...)
It began with a virus. Then a series of attacks erupted across the nation. Now America is at war - and a handful of teens with impossible powers are its only defense.
https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Zone-Blackout-Robison-Wells/dp/0062275038/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(It was the United States Navy that preserved some semblan...)
It was the United States Navy that preserved some semblance of civilization. As the plague spread, quarantined military bases fought off diseased attackers and then finally took to the sky in a fleet of airships. One by one, the captains and admirals fanned out, looking for places to revive society. It was Admiral Constantine who first settled Camelot, and it was his son, Admiral Uther, who brought it to strength with the power of his three airships.
https://www.amazon.com/Airships-Camelot-Arthur-Robison-Wells-ebook/dp/B016NEU0SS/?tag=2022091-20
2015
(Five days ago, a massive UFO crashed in the Midwest. Sinc...)
Five days ago, a massive UFO crashed in the Midwest. Since then, nothing - or no one - has come out. If it were up to Alice, she’d be watching the fallout on the news. But her dad is a director of special projects at NASA, so she’s been forced to enroll in a boarding school not far from the crash site. Alice is right in the middle of the action, but even she isn’t sure what to expect when the aliens finally emerge. Only one thing is clear: everything has changed.
https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Energy-Robison-Wells/dp/0062275054/?tag=2022091-20
2016
https://www.amazon.com/Life-Inside-My-Mind-Struggles/dp/1481494643/?tag=2022091-20
2018
(Two roads lead to Mount Hope. None leads out. There's no ...)
Two roads lead to Mount Hope. None leads out. There's no place to run in a community that's been taken and is being intentionally kept - off the grid. A small southern town was evacuated after a freak power-plant accident. As the first anniversary of the mishap approaches, some residents are allowed to return past the national guard roadblocks. Mount Hope natives Maggie and Jordan quickly discover that their hometown is not as it was before. Downed cellular networks fail to resume service.
https://www.amazon.com/Warning-James-Patterson/dp/1538714965/?tag=2022091-20
2019
Robison Wells was born on April 4, 1978, in Utah, United States.
Wells graduated from the University of Utah in 2003 with a degree in political science, emphasizing in international relations, with a minor in history, and earned a Master of Business Administration degree in marketing from Brigham Young University in 2009.
Robison Wells first began writing as part of a writing group with Dan Wells and Brandon Sanderson. Wells's first three books were written for the LDS fiction market. The first, On Second Thought, is a romantic comedy set in New Mexico, and the second two, Wake Me When It's Over and The Counterfeit are political thrillers.
In April 2010 it was announced that Wells had signed a 3-book YA deal with HarperTeen. The first novel Variant is a young adult science fiction novel set in a boarding school in New Mexico. It has one sequel, Feedback.
It is not a trilogy. Wells's third book with HarperTeen, Blackout has been announced in Publisher's Marketplace as being the first of a series, including two novels and a novella, and will be released in Fall 2013. Wells is also contracted with HarperTeen for an additional book after that series. Variant was released to much critical acclaim, receiving starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and VOYA. It also received favorable reviews from Booklist and Kirkus.
Publishers Weekly also named Variant as one of their Best Books of 2011, and featured Wells as one of their "Flying Starts". Feedback has received mixed reviews. Kirkus referred to it as "An absorbing read that won't let fans of the first down", while Booklist said, "the claustrophobic tightness of the first book is replaced here by a loose series of threats that never solidify into something worth rooting against."
In 2014, Wells, joined by Brandon Sanderson and Dan Wells, edited, Altered Perceptions, an anthology of essays from popular YA writers about their struggles with mental illness.
Well's major achievement is in his books that have been published in nine different languages in more than two dozen countries. He is the winner of many awards both in and out of the United States. He is the author of popular novels, Blackout, Variant, and Feedback. Variant was a Publishers Weekly Best Book and a YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers.
Also, Wells is a founder of the Whitney Awards, an awards program for LDS fiction that he established in 2007. Robison Wells also served as president of the Whitney Awards Committee for three years, ending in 2010.
(It took months for Eric to work up the courage to ask Reb...)
2005(Benson Fisher thought that a scholarship to Maxfield Acad...)
2011(Conspiracy rumor holds that the world economy is tightly ...)
2006(Benson Fisher escaped from Maxfield Academy's deadly rule...)
2012(It was the United States Navy that preserved some semblan...)
2015(Laura and Alec are highly trained in teenage terrorists. ...)
2013(Five days ago, a massive UFO crashed in the Midwest. Sinc...)
2016(Until now, fate has been laughing at Walt Stewart. Unable...)
2004(Something strange is happening to Krezi. She has a danger...)
2013(Two roads lead to Mount Hope. None leads out. There's no ...)
2019(It began with a virus. Then a series of attacks erupted a...)
2014Wells grew up in the religious family with parents that were very active in the Church, and so, as he stated once, he was very active in the Church as well, and never really considered anything else. He even graduated from seminary and prepared to go on a mission, however, faced some spiritual challenges that he couldn't overcome. As of today, Wells is a practicing member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Here is what Wells stated about his personal views regarding his writing: "I don’t set out to make a statement about the gospel. I don’t want to tell a story about conversion or faith. Instead, I’m telling a story about terrorism or nuclear proliferation or whatever, and I let my characters react. In my second and third books, the main characters are active LDS (Latter-day Saints), so they react in a certain way: they pray, they talk about their faith, one gives the other a blessing. But none of this was done to present a moral. It was just done because that’s how the characters would have reacted."
Quotations:
"An absorbing read that won't let fans of the first down".
"Most of my regrets are with how I treated my writing. Early on, I had a very laid-back approach to the books that I think hurt me a little bit. I should have polished them more and spent more time honing my craft. With my first and second books, I really loathed rewriting and would avoid it whenever possible. I wish I could go back and give them both a thorough cleanup."
"Back when I had that first idea for a book, my brother gave me some advice that changed my life. He said “Everyone says they have an idea for a book. Everyone says that one day they’re going to sit down and write the great American novel. The difference between authors and everyone else is that authors actually do it.” That would be my advice for aspiring writers: write. Even now, having written seven novels and published three, I am amazed by how beneficial it is when I force myself to write when I don’t want to. Every one of my books contains passages that were free writes - forcing myself to push through writers' block without knowing where I was going - and it turned out so well that it stayed in the book."
"Orson Scott Card once said that your first million words are crap. While I don’t know if I entirely agree - I’ve probably only crossed the million-word mark in the last few years - it’s definitely true that the more you write the better you get. The key is to keep at it, to fight through a couple lousy, unpublishable books and not let that discourage you."
"Because I came to writing late, and was never an avid reader before I became a writer, I think I never came to define myself as a reader. I never had that oft-talked-about experience of walking to the library as a kid and discovering new worlds. Consequently, I don’t really think about that when I write."
"I write because I love it. That’s not to say that I don’t enjoy hearing feedback from readers, because I definitely do. But I write because it’s fun."
Wells suffers from a severe panic disorder, agoraphobia, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and trichotillomania. Because of these reasons, he is an outspoken advocate for those with mental illness.
Wells lives in North Ogden, Utah, with his wife Erin and three children. He previously lived in New Mexico, which has been the setting for four of his novels.
