I believe stories come from paying attention
They come from the way people talk when they think no one is listening, from ordinary routines that suddenly reveal something larger, and from the strange moments when humor, grief, love, and absurdity all occupy the same emotional space.
BlueSilver Press was created around that idea.
I’m interested in stories about people first: flawed people, funny people, stubborn people, people trying to understand one another and occasionally succeeding. Some of my work is comedic, some is quiet, some is strange, and some reaches toward something a little more mysterious. What connects it all is a belief that even the smallest human moments can carry enormous weight.
I also believe inspiration rarely arrives neatly. It can come from a conversation overheard in a restaurant, an old photograph, a forgotten town, a ridiculous meeting at work, a recipe passed through generations, or a thought that appears out of nowhere at two in the morning.
Maybe stories come from memory. Maybe they come from imagination. Maybe they come from somewhere larger than either of those things.
I’m not particularly interested in deciding which.
I just want to listen when they arrive, write them honestly, and put them into the world with care.
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Imagined Worlds
The Meridian Series
A collection of sci-fi fiction exploring the boundaries of human perception and the vast, uncharted reaches of the cosmos.
The Worked Series
A workplace comedy for those who find solace in the office
restroom.
Standalone Books
Butter and Eggs
Some recipes feed more than appetites.
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After the sudden death of their mother, sisters Jennifer, Laurel, and Destiny agree to keep Three Sisters Bakery open through Thanksgiving. None of them knows whether the business can survive, or whether the three of them can work together long enough to save it.
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Inside the warm kitchen their mother left behind, bread rises before dawn, apples soften with cinnamon, coffee is poured for familiar faces, and a worn family cookbook begins to reveal more than recipes. As autumn settles over Petaluma, the sisters find themselves feeding neighbors, carrying old griefs, and discovering how much can be changed by the smallest acts of care: a loaf of bread, an extra roll, a seat by the window.
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But keeping the bakery alive means confronting more than bills and early mornings. It means facing the distance that grew between them, the things their mother never quite said aloud, and the question of what they are really trying to save.
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Butter and Eggs is a gentle, cozy, heartwarming novel of food, family, memory, and quiet magic, a story about coming home, feeding people well, and finding your way back to one another.
Butter and Eggs is a comfort read best enjoyed with a warm drink, a comfortable chair, and something fresh from the bakery.
The Modern Master
The Modern Master: A Practical Strategy Guide for the Oriental Chair is a leadership and reference book for Masons preparing for the East, currently serving as Master, or helping guide those who will.
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Drawing on nearly two decades of Lodge service, W. A. Purdy, P.M. explores the practical realities that ritual schools and officer training often leave untouched: building a year, leading volunteers, developing officers, managing conflict, strengthening membership, using budgets and calendars strategically, preserving institutional memory, and knowing when to lead from the front and when to serve the will and pleasure of the Lodge.
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More than a manual, The Modern Master is meant to challenge assumptions, confront uncomfortable truths, and help Lodges pursue progress rather than perfection.
About the Author
William Purdy writes stories about people trying to make sense of the systems, families, workplaces, and worlds they find themselves in.
He thinks of himself less as someone who invents stories and more as a conduit for them. A setting begins to take shape, characters arrive, and eventually the story starts revealing what it is actually about. His job is to pay attention and follow it honestly.
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That approach has led him in very different directions. Worked, his primary series, is a workplace comedy about corporate absurdity, friendship, survival, and the people who somehow keep everything running. Meridian moves into a retro-futurist universe of starports, travelers, workers, and intersecting lives. Butter and Eggs turns inward, following three sisters, an inherited bakery, and the complicated legacy of family, memory, and food. Sugarplums began as an intentionally ridiculous adult thought experiment and evolved into something unexpectedly human.
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The genres change. The settings change. What remains constant is his interest in people: how they behave when things go wrong, what they hold onto, who they become around one another, and the strange ways they manage to keep going.