“At a local flea market, thirteen-year-old Brian Hart meets a creepy old man who gives him homemade computer software that can predict NFL games before they’re played. But is the power to see the future really as beneficial as Brian believes…?”

So begins The Videomaniac, the first story in Wil’s creepy new series, ‘Twisted.’ To read the opening chapters, click here, and they should open in your browser automatically.

You can purchase your copy of The Videomaniac on Amazon by clicking here.

The next title in the ‘Twisted’ series, House of a Million Rooms releases on March 1, 2019 and is available for pre-order on Amazon by clicking here.

The leading trade publication for school librarians, School Library Journal, gave Wil’s new ‘Global Citizens: Modern Media’ series, from Cherry Lake Publishing, a fantastic review—

(For Grades 6–8) From how we watch television to what we buy to how we feel about our bodies, visual and print media plays a huge role. Concise writing and bold graphics dig into the history, civics, and economics of each topic. Advancing technologies and how they have affected our media habits are also looked at. Readers are encouraged to think critically and develop their own opinions, a feature supported by both the sidebars peppered throughout and the information in the back matter. The “Developing Questions,” “Gathering Evidence and Evaluating Sources,” “Developing Claims and Using Evidence,” “Taking Informed Action,” and “Communicating Conclusions” sections are meant to maximize student engagement with the content in a productive manner. VERDICT With uses in the curriculum or for pleasure reading, this thought-provoking look at media takes a unique, academic focus and will benefit most collections.

Wil is going to be heading up the newest installment of the popular ‘Jersey Trackers’ e-serial on behalf of the New Jersey Center for the Book, of which he is a member of the Board of Directors’ executive committee. The last installment, The Jersey Trackers and the Imagination Tree Mystery, received an overwhelmingly positive response from educators, parents, and students. The new story,  entitled The Jersey Trackers and the Greatest Mystery in All of History, will be announced in person by Wil at the annual conference of the New Jersey Association of School Librarians in early December. For more information please visit the NJCFB site here—

http://www.njcenterforthebook.org/