Category Archives: Writers & Writing

Pirate Moon & Other Stories coming soon!

Posted on August 19, 2019 by

This is my first collection of previously published stories and essays (along with a few new pieces) about the Chesapeake Bay region. The essays here touch on everything from the origins of the unique dialect known as Delmarvese to running … Continue reading →

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Posted on July 7, 2019 by

This is the online home of David Healey, author of thrilling historical fiction and regional histories. Over the years, quite a lot has been added to the site, so this page will help you get started with navigating HealeyInk. Please … Continue reading →

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Jeffery Hess interview in the June issue of The Big Thrill

Posted on June 4, 2019 by

Writing for The Big Thrill is always a pleasure because it gives me an opportunity to a lot of wonderful authors and discuss writing with them. My latest interview was with Jeffrey Hess, a Florida-based writer. This was actually the … Continue reading →

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General Eisenhower’s D Day Announcement: The Words that Launched Ten Thousand Ships

Posted on May 27, 2019 by

General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s inspiring “Order of the Day” launched the D Day invasion on June 6, 1944. At the same time, he wrote a second message in case the operation involving 150,000 Allied troops failed. Seventy years later, Eisenhower’s … Continue reading →

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Life lessons from your local library

Posted on May 5, 2019 by

by David Healey The recently released film, “The Public,” dramatizes an imagined standoff between altruistic staff and patrons of the Cincinnati Public Library on one side and self-interested government officials on the other. The film brings some positive attention to … Continue reading →

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Math Bird interviewed in The Big Thrill

Posted on November 4, 2018 by

The new issue of The Big Thrill is out, and in it, there’s an interview by Your Correspondent with Math Bird, the Welsh crime writer. Math and I spent about 40 minutes back in September chatting by Skype about his … Continue reading →

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If you haven’t tried an audiobook, listen up!

Posted on November 1, 2018 by

It seems like readers everywhere—or maybe that should be listeners—are really getting into audiobooks. Why is that? I think that a huge factor is technology. It’s so easy now to listen to an audiobook. Simply click on a title and … Continue reading →

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Eastern Shore anthology arrives

Posted on September 9, 2018 by

  The Eastern Shore is a unique place, so it’s fitting that this new anthology features writers and writing from our Chesapeake Bay region. Bay to Ocean: The Year’s Best Writing from the Eastern Shore offers fiction, nonfiction, and poetry … Continue reading →

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Down with the Underdogs by Ian Truman

Posted on September 2, 2018 by

0 By David Healey “I’m a working-class kid from a generation that speaks in emojis,” says Ian Truman, a Montreal writer with a French accent who has been known to lapse from time to time into Franglais, a patois of … Continue reading →

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