William as Mason Coile (2024)

TITLE: William

Previous Secret Title: Daemon

Pseudonym: Mason Coile

Advanced Readers Copy: Unknown

English Publication History:

September 10th, 2024 by Putnam Books (ISBN: 9780593854440)

October 3rd, 2024 by Baskerville/John Murray Press (ISBN: 9781399812771)

February 1st, 2025 by Center Point Large Print (ISBN: 9798891644083)

German Publication History:

November 13th, 2024 by Heyne Verlag (ISBN: 9783641320126)

Ukraine Publication History:

Romania Publication History:

Persian Publication History:

January 1st, 2025 by پرتقال (ISBN: 9786008111962)

Korea Publication History:

March 7th, 2025 by Munhak Sucheob (ISBN: 9791193790953)

France Publication History:

September 18th, 2025 by CHERCHE MIDI (ISBN: 9782749179735)

Portuguese Publication History:

March 31st, 2025 by Planeta Minotauro (ISBN: 9788542231939)

Japan Publication History:

Synopsis:

Not human. Not machine. A being that’s eerily prescient and hungry for revenge…

Henry, a brilliant but agoraphobic robotics engineer, has achieved the crowning discovery of his career: he’s created an artificially intelligent consciousness. He names the half-formed robot William and spends most of his hours studying it in his attic laboratory.

But all is not right with William. The A.I. is filled with jealousy for humanity, for its capacity to love and create life. Henry is uneasy at first, then terrified when William develops an unsettling fixation on Henry’s pregnant wife Lily. Left with no other choice, he is forced to terminate the A.I, but somehow William’s consciousness survives. Henry and his wife wired their home to be the smartest of smart homes, a decision that may prove fatal since a vengeful William has now seized control of the house and its inhabitants.

William is a lean, mean genre-bending novel that shifts seamlessly from psychological thriller and cyber-noir to haunted house horror and locked-box mystery. From the moment we meet Henry to the novel’s surprising end, William will have readers on the edge of their seats, constantly asking themselves just what is going on?

‘If reading with one hand over your mouth is your thing, this is the book for you’ Gus Moreno, author of This Thing Between Us

‘From its first page all the way to its jaw-dropping ending, William had me hooked’ Nick Cutter, author of The Troop and The Deep

LINKS:

Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201110254-william

Penguin/Random House Canada:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/752545/william-by-mason-coile/9780593719602

Amazon US Kindle:

Amazon US Hardcover:

Amazon CAN Kindle:

Amazon CAN Hardcover:

Amazon UK:

Google Books:

https://books.google.ca/books/about/William.html?id=PsbfEAAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y

Audible Canada:

https://www.audible.ca/pd/William-Audiobook/B0CR4HGZ42

Audible US:

https://www.audible.com/pd/William-Audiobook/B0CR4BGCC9

Related Articles/Interviews:

The Bookseller – April 14th, 2023

https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/baskerville-pre-empts-eerily-prescient-ai-inspired-thriller

Book Brunch – April 28th, 2023 – London Book Fair

https://www.bookbrunch.co.uk/download_pdf.php?k=the-bookbrunch-report-publishers-celebrate–buzzy-london-book-fair

Locus Mag – May 19th, 2023 – Publishing Round Up

People & Publishing Roundup, May 2023

John Murray Press – October 16th, 2023 – Mason Coile Introduces ‘WILLIAM’

Kicking things off is WILLIAM by Mason Coile, a devour-in-one-sitting thriller which is Black Mirror meets Frankenstein, and will have you questioning 'what is going on?' 👀#JMPFictionZine24 pic.twitter.com/IfVgOO0kRx

— John Murray Press (@johnmurrays) October 16, 2023