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." Publishers Weekly also named Variant as one of their Best Books of 2011, and featured Wells as one of their "Flying Starts". It also received favorable reviews from Booklist and Kirkus. Variant was released to much critical acclaim, receiving starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and VOYA. He has stated he is working on a memoir about his experiences with mental illness, but it is not under contract. Īs of 2020, Wells has shifted his focus from writing novels to maintaining a popular wargame hobby website, The Wargame Explorer. The book was a New York Times bestseller. In 2019, Wells released a novel cowritten with James Patterson, titled The Warning. It is described as "alternate-history, steampunk, old West, King Arthur." It was the product of a successful Kickstarter campaign. Wells also indie-published a novel, Airships of Camelot. Wells's latest book with HarperTeen is titled Dark Energy. The sequel, "Dead Zone" was released a year later. Wells's third book with HarperTeen, Blackout was announced in Publisher's Marketplace as being the first of a series, including two novels and a novella, and was released in Fall 2013. It has one sequel, Feedback it is not a trilogy. The first novel Variant is a young adult science fiction novel set in a boarding school in New Mexico. In April 2010 it was announced that Wells had signed a 3-book young adult deal with HarperTeen. 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. Wells's first three books were written for the LDS fiction market. Robison Wells first began writing as part of a writing group with Dan Wells and Brandon Sanderson. Wells also makes YouTube videos with his son where they watch Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. Wells is a practicing member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
He previously lived in New Mexico, which has been the setting for four of his novels. Wells lives in North Salt Lake, Utah, with his wife and three children. He 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 an MBA in marketing at Brigham Young University in 2009. He did not become interested in writing until he was in college.
Robison Wells, the brother of author Dan Wells, was a reluctant reader as a child. Robison Wells (born April 1978) is an American novelist and blogger.
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