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Title: Ric Altman's Memoir 18 Tons, 92 Hours Now Available in Paperback and Kindle

United States, 23rd Sep 2026 - Author Fredric "Ric" Altman's memoir, 18 Tons, 92 Hours and 160 Other Clouds of Dust, is available worldwide in paperback and Kindle editions. The 264-page book collects more than 160 short true stories drawn from six decades of the author's life. The book did not begin as a memoir. Altman writes that it started with two stories he had been telling friends for years. Once those were on paper, others followed: the funny ones, the painful ones and a fair number he describes as embarrassing. He kept those in.What resulted is a chronological run through one man's life, told in short chapters that can be read in order or opened at random, the way a storyteller moves from one "and then there was the time" to the next. Some chapters run several pages. Others are a single quick scene, such as a failed attempt to take apart a car transmission that ends about the way readers expect.The early chapters cover a boyhood in Tampa, Fla., during the 1950s and 1960s: storm drain expeditions, Gasparilla season, and the ordinary trouble available to a curious kid in a Florida city that was still finding its shape. A college career that went badly follows, then service in the Air Force Reserve.The second half of the book's title points to its most harrowing chapter. Altman spent close to four days lost at sea, with no way of knowing how the ordeal would end. He tells it plainly, without dramatizing, which is part of why readers keep asking him about it.The title itself describes the book's shape. Two long episodes give it the numbers, and the phrase that follows, 160 other clouds of dust, accounts for everything else: the smaller moments that kicked up trouble, laughter or regret and then settled again.The short-chapter format suits the way people actuall...

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