“Gonna be honest between you and me. When I heard what some of those boys will get with their deals, I was like, Toby, my son, don’t pack it in. Your dad and I have spent oodles of hours and money on sports. All those parents who are like, ‘My so-and-so is average, and I’mContinue reading ““Senior Night” plus A Long Road Home and 1,000 Subscribers”
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A Long Road Home – New Novel Now Available
A society that casts aside its men casts aside itself. This isn’t complicated. But we complicate it when we don’t need to. —William Auten, A Long Road Home New novel A Long Road Home now available. “Going out there is all that matters.” After fifteen years in middle management, Boz Trimble is phased out byContinue reading “A Long Road Home – New Novel Now Available”
A Long Road Home First Chapter and Goodreads Giveaway
A Long Road Home available 19 June 2026. Read the first chapter. Boz glances down the vacant cubicles. “They’ll get you next.” “They trained me to do this.” “If they trained you, they can train anyone.” —William Auten – A Long Road Home “Going out there is all that matters.” After fifteen years in middleContinue reading “A Long Road Home First Chapter and Goodreads Giveaway”
A Long Road Home – New Novel plus Goodreads Giveaway
New novel A Long Road Home available 19 June 2026. Enter your chance to win one of ten free Kindle copies of A Long Road Home through the Goodreads Giveaway. Good luck, thank you, and please spread the word. “Going out there is all that matters.” After fifteen years in middle management, Boz Trimble isContinue reading “A Long Road Home – New Novel plus Goodreads Giveaway”
“Black Flag Glass Repair” plus A Long Road Home – new novel available June 2026
BLACK FLAG GLASS REPAIR No job too small or too big. We fix it all including special projects like loupes, pince-nez, spyglasses, and ships in bottles. 24-hour emergency services. Call today and let us get your glass back in shape! A husband house-sits for his in-laws. “Black Flag Glass Repair” a short story now available.Continue reading ““Black Flag Glass Repair” plus A Long Road Home – new novel available June 2026″
In Another Sun Second Edition Now Available
“I don’t want happiness. I want meaning.” Second edition. The American-born only child of Mexican immigrants, Vanessa Ochoa thought she knew what she wanted until she got it. But when a crisis forces her to redefine her life and start over in the place she swore she would never return to, she searches for somethingContinue reading “In Another Sun Second Edition Now Available”
Year-End Thank You Plus In Another Sun Second Edition
2025’s milestones helped by you supporting and spreading the word about my work. Thank you. See y’all in 2026. And while you’re there, sign up as a subscriber. My fiction and updates reach your inbox once a month. Extraordinary stories (fiction short and long) about ordinary Americans. Good stories don’t, and shouldn’t have to, conformContinue reading “Year-End Thank You Plus In Another Sun Second Edition”
Goodreads Giveaway for In Another Sun (Second Edition)
Are you on Goodreads? Enter your chance to win one of ten Kindle copies of In Another Sun (second edition) by William Auten. Thank you, good luck, and spread the word. “I don’t want happiness. I want meaning.” Second edition. The American-born only child of Mexican immigrants, Vanessa Ochoa thought she knew what she wantedContinue reading “Goodreads Giveaway for In Another Sun (Second Edition)”
Night School Now Available, Goodreads Giveaway, and Pepper’s Ghost Quarterfinalist for ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose 2025
Your support helped make all these possible. And thank you to my annual paid Substack subscribers. One annual paid Substack subscription contributed to producing and promoting Night School and entering the Cinematic Prose contest for Pepper’s Ghost. And while you’re there, sign up as a subscriber. My fiction and updates reach your inbox once aContinue reading “Night School Now Available, Goodreads Giveaway, and Pepper’s Ghost Quarterfinalist for ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose 2025”
Year-End Thank You
THANK YOU FOR 2024 Producing and promoting stories requires time and money. Independent authors like me are often overlooked because of trends, sales, and genre. I do not answer to a board or a corporation and have no interest in being with the “right people” and saying the “right phrases.” But this is where youContinue reading “Year-End Thank You”