NEW RELEASE - SEPTEMBER 1
BILLY
A ’70S STORY
A novel by John Seegers
"Sometimes the family that saves your life is the one you never knew you had."
New York City, 1972 — a street kid with nothing left to lose finds an unlikely family in a lonely widow's Greenwich Village townhome.
Available Sept 1, 2026 on Amazon & major online retailers
THE STORY
Every ending
is somebody's
beginning.
THE STORY Every ending is somebody's beginning.
Eighteen-year-old Billy Johnson has spent most of his life believing he was unwanted. After years of abuse, foster homes, and surviving on the streets by selling drugs, he expects nothing from the world except another day of getting by.Everything changes when a chance encounter leads him to Ethel Schiender, a lonely widow living in a Greenwich Village townhome. As Billy begins helping the elderly woman with everyday chores, an unlikely friendship grows into something neither of them expected.
Through quiet conversations, shared meals, and the steady rhythm of ordinary days, Ethel teaches Billy what it means to believe in a future worth planning for.
But as Ethel's health begins to fail, Billy is forced to confront painful family secrets buried for nearly two decades — and decide whether to return to the streets, or find the courage to become who he was always meant to be.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JOHN SEEGERS
John Seegers, author, is a retired hospitality sales manager who walked the Camino de Santiago three times — an experience that became the foundation for two memoirs, My Way on the Camino Portuguese and Another Camino Story.
Decades, his poetry collection, is a separate, more personal body of work — poems written from 1972 to 2008 that trace his changing views over the years: a Catholic upbringing, the hippie years and drug experimentation, social commentary, love, and growing old.
Billy: A '70s Story is his first work of fiction — a novel about family, second chances, and the people who show up when you least expect them, set against the backdrop of 1970s New York City.
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