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SJ WILLS

PIcture credit: Craig Minto Photography

PIcture credit: Craig Minto Photography

SJ Wills

“Kate is my Christopher Robin.”

 

Award-winning author SJ Wills grew up in Chelmsford, Essex. She worked at two London publishers before going freelance in 2003.

SJ’s thrilling teen werewolf series Bite Risk is published by S&S on both sides the Atlantic and translated into several languages. It has been shortlisted for many awards and won the Juniper Book Awards, and is optioned for TV.

Her new series Python is a high octane teen spy adventure series which is also published by S&S and has multiple translation deals.

She lives on the edge of south-east London with her family.


SJ’S BOOKS

Writing as SJ Wills: Python - The New Recruit, Simon & Schuster, 2026; Bite Risk - Cold Blood, Simon & Schuster, 2025; Bite Risk - Caught Dead, Simon & Schuster, 2024; Bite Risk, Simon & Schuster, 2023. Writing as Sophie Wills: The Orphans of St Halibut’s - Pamela’s Revenge, Macmillan, 2021; The Ophans of St Halibut’s, Macmillan, 2020.

 
 

REVIEWERS

“Pure, thrilling brilliance!”

Louie Stowell

“An immersive, hair-raising page-turner.”

Kirkus

“Riotously absorbing."”

Guardian


Latest Book

 

THE WRITERs WHO MOST INSPIRED SOPHIE

A.A. Milne and John Christopher.


SOPHIE ABOUT KATE

Kate is the Christopher Robin to my… well, depending on the day, Pooh, Eeyore, or Piglet (Owl when I’m proofreading). She’s enthusiastic, determined, wise, firm, kind and responsive, and I wouldn’t want to publish anything without her.


KATE ABOUT SOPHIE

Sophie’s writing takes your breath away. Whether she is creating daring child characters and dastardly villains in slapstick adventures, or slick horror stories that keep you on the edge of your seat, her books are a joy to read.  Well, a joy full of fear and thrills, anyway! Luckily, Sophie is also a complete pleasure to work with.