About Me

Amos Christian Wilson is an independent, Christian author, poet and musician. He is also a homeschool graduate, and third born of twelve, who loves reading, the outdoors, theology, and history. For better or for worse, A. C. Wilson went from high-school to a wide range of trade jobs, from carpentry, to piano-tuning, to horse-shoeing. A. C. Wilson seeks to write books which center around strongly religious characters, and immersive world-building. Currently, Wilson lives with his wife and children in the scenic Flint Hills of Kansas.

I wanted to be an inventor when I grew up. Thomas Edison was my role model: he was homeschooled like me, and he was an inventor. I don’t remember what genius pieces of tech I had decided I was going to invent, because when I was about six, my mother crushed my dreams by telling me that to be an inventor I would have to learn math. Since I was not about to learn math, I decided I would become an author.

The first time I remember being drawn to fantasy was when I discovered the maps at the end of my first bible. Obviously, those maps were not fantasy maps, but they may as well have been. Nothing I knew or experienced was on those maps. Where was Kansas? Where was Colorado? And they spoke of a world which stretched my imagination, a world that was arid and desert, bordered by something called “the ocean”, where every town had thousands of years of history. I come from the mid-west of the USA, where a hundred-year-old house is an ancient historical site.

I think it was my attempts to imagine biblical stories, and think about the world where they occurred that first inspired me to imagine fantasy lands. And when I discovered the worlds of C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and J. R. R. Tolkien, I was hooked. So I started drawing maps of my own.

I poured out all my teenage angst and poor writing on a convoluted septology which hopefully will never see the light of day. Having learned a thing or two about story telling by failing, I came back to the world of Gaise, but even so it was ten years of writing, revising, then throwing away and re-writing from scratch before I finally had a book I was proud of.

In the middle of all of that, I graduated from highschool, skipped college, and decided to get some “life experience” by working in as many blue-collar trades as possible (as of writing this, I work as an appliance installation technician to pay the bills). My experience working on the manual-labor side of society inspires my approach to writing. I love focusing on the average person and the mundane aspects of world-building.

In case it wasn't obvious, Christianity has been a major influence on who I am. I grew up in Reformed, conservative, Evangelical circles, and that has done a lot to shape me into who I am. While today I would not categorize myself by any of those three labels, my Christian faith is still foundational to my stories. That said, having deconstructed a lot of my upbringing, I hope to bring a diverse voice to faith in my books.

That’s pretty much all you need to know about me. I’m a husband and a father, and just like any other author, I like to curl up with a hot mug of coffee and a good book. Christmas is my favorite holiday, nostalgia is my favorite emotion, and I don’t think I’ll ever grow too old to play with Legos.