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L.A. Wilson is an unconventional independent writer and published author, whose ten book series called 'The Silurian' will challenge everything you have ever read before about King Arthur and his knights.
L.A. is dedicated to bringing to the reader a whole new world of authoring original works. The Silurian series, standing at well over a million words, and still counting, has opened the door to new interpretations within the Arthurian genre, that is, a writer of imagination, able to create characters who stand alone within genre fiction writing.
Having studied the craft of writing in action, actually committing to 'on the job learning', L.A. has been crafting The Silurian books now for ten years, with an apprenticeship in creative writing extending long before that: from midnight-dark vampires, to a golden lost boy of a speculative world, to a mysterious place within the Universe and its Master creator, to early and extensively studied writing arts, L.A. Wilson produces unique books coming from a unique point of view: that of the iconoclast, ever seeking to break the mold of mass produced and formulaic novel construction.
Book One of The Silurian: The Fox and The Bear received an 'Honorary Mention' in the 2007 London Book Festival literary competition. And Book Two, The King of Battles, was a finalist under historical fiction in the Global eBook Awards.
Reviewed by Alice DiNizo for Readers' Favorite
King Arthur of the Camelot legend was a dark-eyed, dark-haired Silurian as was his mother Igrain and her family before her. "The Silurian: Book One" begins with Arthur's teenage years as he, aged 15 and called The Bear, and his close friend, sixteen year old narrator Prince Bedwyr called the Fox, go into battle against the Germani and Angli foes and win. Arthur suffers a head wound which leaves him with seizures but Arthur nonetheless is becoming a brilliant commander in battle. As his power grows and he is given his own command, Arthur, already rejected by his father Lord Pengragon and taken in by Bedwyr's father, King Pedrawg, fears further rejection. Prince Bedwyr doesn't love battle the way Arthur does and he runs away, hiding for months. However, Arthur rescues him and gets his penalties lessened. As Arthur grows up, he learns that he has actually killed a Saxon king and prizes the beautiful sword he finds during one of his battles. What is next in the young years of the man who would be King?
Arthurian legends abound in "The Silurian: Book One" and so it must be added to the reading list. With an innate feeling for the language of that long-ago time, author L.A. Wilson gives the reader a good picture of what King Arthur was like as a teenager, growing into the legend he would become in adulthood. Arthur's character as well as those of his close friends Prince Bedwyr and Medraut, Ambrosius, Rhonwen, and Aurelius are all well-created and totally believable. Arthur, despite wounds and fevers, becomes great before the reader's eyes. "The Silurian: Book Two" will be highly anticipated and the same will be the case of any other sequels in what looks to be an excellent series.
