[5] The same year, Wilson announced in Books & Culture magazine that he had made a near-duplicate of the Shroud of Turin image by exposing dark linen to the sun for ten days under a sheet of glass on which a positive mask had been painted,[6][7] and in doing so, "caused some uproar in the Shroud of Turin world.
Wilson was charged with various misdemeanors following an episode where he allegedly plastered public property with stickers that compared the town of Moscow to the Soviet Union.
[13] Wilson's published works include three series and two standalone novels for young adults, as well as children's picture books and a textbook.
Leepike Ridge uses themes from The Odyssey, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and King Solomon's Mines, while the 100 Cupboards series was influenced by the King Arthur stories, both as told by Geoffrey of Monmouth and by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene, and fairy tales from Robert Kirk and Sir Walter Scott.
[15] Wilson's short fiction and prose have been published in Credenda/Agenda, the Chattahoochee Review, the Esquire napkin project,[16] Christianity Today, and Books & Culture.
Kirkus Reviews said of The 100 Cupboards, "Wilson's writing is fantastical, but works with clever sentences and turns of phrase that render it more than just another rote fantasy.