Troy Taliancich

TroyTaliancich

Novels about people who keep the record, and the questions a record can’t close.

Ferry Weather The Record: The Complete Series The One Who Asks The Deep End The Sextant Protocol: The Complete Trilogy

Books

Ferry Weather

A novel. Kindle and paperback, 136 pages. Paperback ISBN 9798161780855.

The first book he wrote about her was true. He left it on her step, and nothing came back. This one is fiction, and he says so on page one.

Wes Guidry lives across a cedar fence from Céline Marchetti, who ends four years with him in three lines on school paper: Please don’t come to the house. He doesn’t. A love story told by a man who has learned to leave the woman alone.

About the book and the opening

The book’s site: ferryweathernovel.com

The Record

Book one of The Record series. Kindle and paperback, 234 pages. Paperback ISBN 9798162989448. Out .

Nothing is true until a clerk writes it down.

In Wren’s world, words only count face to face, and every word that matters goes into the Record. Wren has never spoken on the Floor; Cal speaks for her. Then she finds a phone that should not exist, with a voice on it the Record says was never there: her aunt’s.

About the book, the laws of speech, and the opening

The series site: therecordseries.com

The Record Stands

Book two of The Record series. Kindle and paperback, 260 pages. Paperback ISBN 9798164038076. Out .

She never said it. The whole high ground heard her say it.

A clip of Wren’s own face is going porch to porch on the illegal phones, saying words she never said. She has one storm season to walk into the one room where every word is kept and say the true thing herself.

About book two

The Record Counts

Book three of The Record series. Kindle and paperback, 214 pages. Paperback ISBN 9798164503178. Out .

Forty mornings. One stolen minute. One no.

Forty clerks have come down the Line from the capital with hand bells, one hearing a morning, to decide what forty petitions are worth, and Wren is named in every one. She has one no, and forty rooms to spend it in.

About book three

The Record Burns

Book four of The Record series. Kindle and paperback, 204 pages. Paperback ISBN 9798165256080. Out .

Forty rooms in the capital. One fire at home. One true answer.

The capital has sent for Wren. Forty mornings in its own room, a share of everything she is in its book, and a quiet man in a corner chair who watches her every morning. Then she comes home, and the archive is burning.

About book four

The Record Speaks

Book five of The Record series, the final book. Kindle and paperback, 256 pages. Paperback ISBN 9798166506597. Out .

Twenty-nine days. One bell. One last room.

By the first of May the District’s own clerks must carry Wren’s mother to the barges, or the Line stops for good. Eighteen thousand people will fill the round hall at the water for the capital’s last hour, every one of them watching Wren’s mouth.

About book five

The Record: The Complete Series

Books one to five in one volume. Kindle and paperback, 712 pages. Out .

Nothing counts unless it is said to your face.

All five books of The Record, The Record, The Record Stands, The Record Counts, The Record Burns and The Record Speaks, complete in one volume.

  • Kindle: Coming November 30
  • Paperback: Coming November 30
About the complete series

The One Who Asks

2026. Paperback, 558 pages, and Kindle. Paperback ISBN 9798160361390.

The data leans when he watches it.

A year after he lost his mind, Trey Vogler is back on the night shift at a Texas supercollider that was never cancelled, with three pills a day and one rule: no signs, no meaning, just data. Then a tiny excess appears in one decay channel, but only when someone is watching, and most of all when he is. An epic novel of science and faith, recovery and grief.

About the book and the prologue

The book’s site: onewhoasks.com

The Deep End

Paperback, 399 pages, and ebook. Paperback ISBN 9798176282344.

A novel about a breakup, a building, and a man who cannot tell whether he is being watched or writing a book.

In a converted cotton mill in New Orleans, a three-year relationship ends by text, and the woman who ended it lives one floor up. Over the next eighteen months the building starts to answer back. Autofiction built like a case file, with the nerve to leave the question open.

About the book and chapter one

The book’s site: thedeependnovel.com

The Sextant Protocol

A trilogy: The Sextant, The Meridian, The Compass. Also as one volume, paperback, 510 pages, ISBN 9798160622132.

Three novels about a device that holds people where they are, and the people who keep the record of what that costs.

Nine years and three generations of one instrument, from New Orleans to Salt Lake City to Fort Benning, Georgia. Read in order, or start anywhere; each book stands on its own.

Read an excerpt from The Compass

The trilogy’s site: sextantprotocol.com

About

Troy Taliancich has lived in the same converted cotton mill in New Orleans for twenty-five years. It is the setting of his first novel, The Deep End, and the city where the Sextant Protocol trilogy begins and ends.

His novels are built from records: texts and meeting minutes, Sunday logs, a mother’s notebook of phone calls, a detector’s data stream. Each asks what the record can prove, and what it can’t.

He is the author of Ferry Weather, the Record series (The Record, The Record Stands, The Record Counts, The Record Burns and The Record Speaks), The One Who Asks, The Deep End, and The Sextant Protocol, and is at work on The Dog House.

More about Troy Taliancich · Amazon · Goodreads · Write to him at [email protected].

Hear about the next book

A note when a book is new, free, or on sale. Nothing else, and not often.

Your address is used for that and nothing else. It is never sold or shared.