AboutTroy Taliancich

The author

Troy Taliancich is a novelist in New Orleans, where he has lived in the same converted cotton mill for twenty-five years. The building is the setting of his novel The Deep End, and New Orleans is 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, a ledger kept by a clerk. Each one asks what a record can prove, and what it can’t. His narrators keep the record, and the books are honest about where the record and memory part ways.

He writes for adult readers and, in The Record series, for young adults. He is at work on The Dog House, the sequel to The Deep End.

Books by Troy Taliancich

Ferry Weather A novel. A love story told by a man who has learned to leave the woman alone.
The Record series Five novels for young adults, in a city where nothing is true until a clerk writes it down: The Record, The Record Stands, The Record Counts, The Record Burns and The Record Speaks. Also complete in one volume, The Record: The Complete Series, and a free prequel story, The First Mark.
The One Who Asks An epic novel of science and faith, set under the Texas prairie.
The Deep End Autofiction built like a case file: a breakup, a building, and a man who cannot tell whether he is being watched or writing a book.
The Sextant Protocol A trilogy about a device that holds people where they are: The Sextant, The Meridian and The Compass, also in one volume.
The Dog House The sequel to The Deep End, coming soon.

On the novels

The Measured and the Missing: an essay on grief, delusion and the ethics of seeing across all of Troy’s books, written by Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, from a reading of the complete works. It discusses the books’ endings.

Contact

Write to Troy at [email protected]. For news of new books, join the mailing list.

Find Troy on Amazon and Goodreads.

Each book also has its own site: ferryweathernovel.com, therecordseries.com, onewhoasks.com, thedeependnovel.com and sextantprotocol.com.