"...You didn't sugar coat it, nor did you give any easy or cliche answers... I can sense the struggle and that to me is the true meaning of faith... By the end, my faith was challenged and strengthened... This book is worth the read."
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Pastor Marco DeBarros, author of Untangling Jesus from religion, NLSC
“This is a HEAVY read that will make you think… one of the central themes is seeing the difference between being healed versus being consumed.”
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Kindle Customer
“The book constantly makes you question whether what’s happening is a miracle, manipulation, or something much worse.”
A los dieciocho años, una rara enfermedad autoinmune ya ha reducido su vida a habitaciones de hospital, deudas y un futuro que se le sigue escapando de las manos. Entonces, tras una noche desesperada, su cuerpo se recupera de una forma que la medicina no puede explicar.
At eighteen, a rare autoimmune disease has already narrowed his life to hospital rooms, debt, and a future that keeps slipping out of reach. Then, after one desperate night, his body recovers in a way medicine cannot explain.
Elias Wynn: The Witness — Part One is a dramatized, abridged audiobook adaptation of the novel by Sebastian A. Guzman.
This edition brings the story to life through acted voices, music, atmosphere, and sound design, creating a more immersive experience than a standard audiobook. Part One follows the beginning of Elias Wynn’s story: an...
Sebastian A. Guzman is the author of Elias Wynn: The Witness, his debut novel.
He is drawn to stories about suffering, trauma, healing, faith under pressure, and the hard questions that surface when life stops making sense —and the resilience that pulls us through. His writing is shaped by his Christian faith, his background in neuroscience, and his time working in and around medicine as an EMT.
Before writing The Witness, Sebastian was studying neuroscience while working, serving in his church, and preparing for a future in medicine. He was nearing the final stretch of his undergraduate journey when illness interrupted the life he had been building.
In January 2025, he was diagnosed with granulomatosis with polyangiitis, formerly known as Wegener’s disease, a rare autoimmune condition that forced him to step away from work, school, and many of the plans he had been pursuing. That season of illness, recovery, therapy, and spiritual wrestling deeply shaped the emotional world of his debut novel.
For Sebastian, fiction became a way to wrestle honestly with fear, weakness, suffering, faith, and the longing for healing without pretending those questions are simple.
He lives in Rhode Island with his wife, Ana, a registered nurse.
While his writing explores the hard questions of faith under pressure, it ultimately seeks the light that remains when life stops making sense.
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Sebastian A. Guzman is the author of Elias Wynn: The Witness, his debut novel.
He is drawn to stories about suffering, trauma, healing, faith under pressure, and the hard questions that surface when life stops making sense —and the resilience that pulls us through. His writing is shaped by his Christian faith, his background in neuroscience, and his time working in and around medicine as an EMT.
Father’s Day was this past Sunday, and I didn’t get to post anything.
I’ll be honest, I almost let it pass. Not because I don’t care, but because sometimes these things sneak up on you. Then I remembered June is Men’s Health Month too, and it made me think about how we usually only talk about men’s health when it is officially “the month” for it, or when something bad happens.
That is kind of the problem.
A lot of guys are not walking around looking for a...
The dramatized audiobook is definitely not just “someone reading the book out loud.”
I didn’t want that. Most authors do one narrator. They hire a professional voice to read the sentences from start to finish. It’s clean. It’s standard. But for Elias Wynn: The Witness, it felt like it wasn’t enough. This story is already so atmospheric on the page. It’s built on things that are felt rather than just seen.
I wanted it to feel more like a movie for your ears. Not in a cheesy way. Not with...
We have been talking about some heavy things lately. Prosperity gospels. Men’s mental health. The way silence feels like drowning.
It is easy to get stuck in the dark when you write about trauma and faith. When you write novels about trauma and healing, you spend a lot of time in the shadows. You have to. If you don't look at the shadows, the light you find at the end feels like a lie.
In my debut novel, Elias Wynn: The Witness, there is a lot of shadow. There is a character called the Healer...
