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Sean Wright Book Facts
  • Sean Wright is three times British Fantasy Awards finalist for excellence in writing.
  • He has signed over 500 books in two hours at the prestigious London bookshop, Hatchard's, Piccadilly, and signed at events with Ruth Rendell, PD James, Michelle Paver, PB Kerr, and Eleanor Updale.
  • His YA novel Jesse Jameson and the Bogie Beast spent the whole of August 2003 in the Amazon UK folklore bestsellers list in the Number One slot ahead of JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
  • All of Jesse Jameson and the Golden Glow was read cover to cover - non-stop for five hours - on the BBC Radio's Big Read-a-thon and streamed live on the internet back in May 2003.
  • Jesse Jameson and the Golden Glow was featured on the CBBC Xchange programme in October 2003.
  • GP Taylor, author of the huge fantasy best-seller, Shadowmancer, which was Waterstone's Book of 2003, has said that Jesse's adventures are 'Fantastic books ... highly recommended and very good reads.' BUY collectible Jesse Jameson books.
  • Sean has been recognised as one of fifteen of the world's most collectible modern children's authors by Book and Magazine Collector alongside JK Rowling, Philip Pullman and GP Taylor.
    During Xmas 2004, his novel The Twisted Root of Jaarfindor was recommended by The Observer national newspaper in its finance and investments pages as a top collectable, along with Pullman's Scarecrow and his Servant, The Beatle's Yellow Submarine, Paver's Wolf Brother, and Charmian Hussey's Valley of Secrets.
  • In 2005, he was named as one of Hatchard's Authors of the Year, and continues to be featured at the famous Foyle's London bookshop as a current favourite in the children's department.
  • His second teenage-adult crossover title - Dark Tales of Time and Space - sold out in hardback edition, emulating his debut crossover success with the critically acclaimed The Twisted Root of Jaarfindor.

  • In 2005 The Twisted Root of Jaarfindor was short-listed for a British Fantasy Award for BEST NOVELLA and a year later Dark Tales of Time and Space also made the short-listed finals.
Sean Wright Music Facts
  • Some major musicians, singers, and producers have publicly praised his songwriting. Folk like Alexander Nevermind, Najam Sheraz, Roman Klun, Dana Gaynor, Betsy Hammer, Robin Olson, Swapmeet Louie, Dan Nash, and Jimmy Z.
  •   "Great songs! Digging your work man. An Album a month.. for crying out loud... when do you sleep Mr Dylan?" Liam Gerner, singer-songwriter, discovered by Peter Gabriel, touring with Newton Faulkner, Amy Macdonald, Ryan Bingham and others
  • Roman Klun, said of Sean Wright’s project, “all sounds and feels good.’ Klun is the award-winning record producer, music engineer and singer/songwriter who worked on Sarah McLachlan's Grammy nominated and Juno Award winning record "Afterglow."
  • Robin Olson says: "Sean - I love your music!" Robin Olson has music credits on almost every major blockbuster movie in the past ten years, including Shrek, Cast Away, Schindler's List, Pirates of the Carribean, and hundreds more. He has worked with Eric Clapton, Elton John, The Eagles, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and many more.
  • Enigmatic producer and songwriter, Alexander Nevermind (aka La Tour and other pen names) has also spoken out about Wright's songwriting, saying: "... love your music and your work ethic... "
  • The legendary American harmonica player, Jimmy Z, has said that Wright's music "sounds great." Jimmy Z has worked both live and on albums with Rod Stewart, Pink, Dr. Dre, Tom Petty, and the Eurythmics. Dave Stewart calls Jimmy 'the best harmonica player in the world.'
  • Mark "Tin Tin" Tinley contacted Sean, after hearing some of his songs on myspace, and offered to mix and produce Wright's final album of the project - WAR NO MORE (March 2008). An icon followed and acclaimed for his innovative flair by many of the industry's top names, Tinley was a member of Britain's first Acid house band (The Garden of Eden), formed with fashion's Pam Hogg and Kiss FM's Steve Jackson.
  • His ingenious and original use of digital audio programming has since shaped the sound of bands such as Adamski, Duran Duran and The Dandy Warhols. He worked with Glenn Gregory (Heaven 17) and Gary Numan. Tinley was responsible for a major shift in Duran Duran's sound with the Medazzaland release, an album heavily influenced by Tinley's unique programming style.
  • Sean Wright played at Trafalgar Square, London, on the 28th July 2007 with Najam Sheraz. The crowd was 12,000+, and the Pakistan Festival was beamed via satellite to millions worldwide by GEO TV.
  • Sean Wright played a secret gig in the US in June 2007 with Najam Sheraz to over 8000 people. Major political figures from Pakistan and the US government were in attendance.
  • Sean Wright's songs have been played on myspace since April 2007 over 80,000 times.
  • He began writing, recording, and producing an album-a-month from April 2007 for a year.
  • In October 2007, the BBC Look East News programme feature Sean's album-a-month project in an interview. Clips of his popular video - YouTube Lover - were also featured. Watch the interview.
  • During 2007 he began co-writing new songs for an album with one of Asia's biggest music icons - Najam Sheraz.
  • Sean Wright's influences are wide and varied -- from acoustic, folk, rock, and pop, to Seventies punk and Glam Rock, to the Nineties Brit Pop. At the heart of his music is melody and a unique vocal style.
  • Back in 1976, he went to London to audition for a band called The Automatics, and met up with Steve Lillywhite, producer of Ultravox, Simple Minds, Morrisey, Talking Heads, and U2. Lillywhite was concerned that a 16 year-old, Sean, was 'too young to be alone in London. Life here is full of strange situations,' he said. Inspired, two years later Sean released a power pop single, 'Strange Situation,' (at Spaceward Studios) on the Ellie Jay Record label, London.
  • Sean was contacted by BBC producer - Jim LaHat, in 2005, who told him that "Strange Situation" was a rarity sought by power pop collectors. Jim had gotten his copy of the 45 vinyl from John Peel several years before.
  • In 1986, his original songs were published by Peer-Southern Music, London, publishers for Buddy Holly, Donavan, Rolling Stones and many more.
  • He co-wrote some with Hollywood legend, Kim Fowley, of Kiss, Guns and Roses, The Byrds, Jimi Hendrix, Mott-the-Hoople, Sonic Youth, Nirvana,  and the Number 1 sixties hit, Nut Rocker by Bee Bumble and the Stingers fame.
  • Sean Wright co-managed the hugely popular all-girl Swedish band, Ice Age, in 1988-90, co-producing their MTV video, 'Instant Justice,' and co-ordinated their successful European tour, which saw them sell-out the London Hippodrome, and the famous Marquee Club. The band also featured many times in Europe's music press pages, radio, and TV - being voted best all-girl group in the world in 1989 by Kerrang! magazine.
  • Sean Wright's been writing songs for over thirty years. His 1982 Power Pop band - International Heroes - are credited in The Encyclopaedia of British Heavy Metal as a forerunner of the so-called power pop movement. Whatever - he always did his own thing then as now.
    To the present day he has continued to write and record his own music.
Sean Wright Art Facts
  • Since 1993, Sean Wright has successfully exhibited with the British Watercolour Society, Society of Miniaturists, and the Yorkshire Pastel Society. 
  • Most notably, the late Queen Mother, Derek Oldfield, former conductor of the Iceni Orchestra, and Henry Bellingham MP have Sean's work in their own collections.