"...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.”
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.
It is an ordinary Saturday in Rhode Island. I am sitting in the passenger seat of the car while Ana drives. We are going to get coffee. On the outside, everything looks fine. It is a quiet morning. The world is moving at its usual pace. I am just a guy in a car with his wife.
Inside, it is different. Inside, there is the familiar weight. It is the weight of health stuff. It is the weight of future stuff. It is the constant, low-level hum of wondering if I am becoming a burden. I sit there and...
One day you are wrestling with the weight of the universe, trying to pin down the exact texture of a character’s grief.
The next day, you are an admin assistant for your own imagination.
You’re checking spreadsheets. You’re formatting Kindle files. You’re staring at Canva drafts, wondering if the font is "serious" enough for a story about spiritual warfare and trauma.
It’s an odd contrast.
But the weight remains. Especially when you write about the hard things....
