John Moore is a British children’s author and creator of The Wiz Wizards 10-book series entitled The Magical Stories of Wiz Island. Blending fantasy, adventure, and hidden educational themes, his stories are designed to encourage children aged 6–12 to discover the joy of reading while learning without even realising it.
Set within the magical world of Wiz Island, John’s growing universe features colourful wizard trios, enchanted lands, magical creatures, puzzles, poems, glossaries, and moral-driven adventures that inspire imagination, curiosity, and creativity. His unique “Read’n’Learn” approach combines storytelling with vocabulary building, memory reinforcement, and positive life lessons.
John regularly promotes literacy through local radio appearances, library readings and community book fairs. Alongside The Wiz Wizards, he is also developing collectible cards, board games, colouring books, and companion materials to expand the world of Wiz Island beyond the printed page.
In addition to children’s fantasy, John is also the author of darker supernatural thriller concepts, including The Perfume Bottle and TATTOO, showcasing his versatility across multiple genres.
Blurb — The Wiz Wizards Series
Welcome to the magical world of Wiz Island… A place where powerful wizards, witches, and warlocks live across nine extraordinary lands, each connected with a mysterious colour crystal and a hidden magical destiny. When the Grand Sorcerer summons the magic wielders to embark on dangerous journeys across forests, deserts, frozen lakes, crystal lagoons, and shadowed mountains, each trio must overcome magical creatures, ancient puzzles, hidden portals, and powerful trials to recover their crystal shards and restore balance to Wiz Island. But the journeys are only the beginning…
Filled with adventure, humour, magical spells, educational surprises, poems, glossaries, and important life lessons, The Wiz Wizards series is a unique “Read’n’Learn” fantasy experience designed especially for children aged 6–12. Perfect for parents to read to their children. Children to read along with their parent and also for young readers alone who love magical worlds, exciting quests, colourful characters, and discovering hidden meanings inside every story.
John also writes as Jay Seymour and you can find those books on Amazon including:
Blurb — The Perfume Bottle
Some objects are never truly owned… only passed from one soul to the next, or in this case ‘The Bottle’. When an exquisitely crafted blue glass perfume bottle appears unexpectedly in people’s lives, it brings with it beauty, obsession, memory, temptation… and something far darker hidden beneath its scent. Across several centuries and continents, the mysterious bottle silently connects strangers whose lives become forever changed after a single encounter. For some, it offers confidence, love, and desire. For others, it awakens greed, loss, addiction, and dangerous secrets buried deep within the human heart.
On the night of a full moon the bottle always moves on, but the people do not. Elegant, haunting, and emotionally charged, The Perfume Bottle is a supernatural literary mystery exploring memory, identity, temptation, and the invisible traces people leave behind long after they are gone.
Below are the panels John has taken part in so far…
T&T #6 ~ Thursday 2nd April: advice for wannabe writers with ~ Andrea D Woolhead ~ John Moore ~ Shaun Allan ~ Tim Franks
MMF #14 Monday 25th May: writing groups ~ AA Abbott ~ David Wake ~ John Moore ~ Ryan Stark ~ with Morgen hosting
These are free events but we’re raising money for local book-related charities and we’d be really grateful if you would donate whatever you afford via the Charities & Donate page. Thank you so much.