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Welcome to Marti Healy Books

Thank you for your interest in author Marti Healy and her work.

Marti’s currently released books include:  “The God-Dog Connection,” “The Rhythm of Selby, ” “The Secret Child,” “Yes, Barbara, There Is An Aiken,” “Falling in Love with Aiken, Again.” “The Childornot Tales,” “Walking with Dogs – A Spiritual Journey,” “Breathings – Tiny Stories for the Thin Places of Your Heart,” and “Blinding the Moon.”

Each book is described in detail on the web page entitled “Books.”  You will also find reviews of these books following each book description.  Marti has several other books in various stages of development.

Readers are typically drawn to Marti Healy’s work because of her lyrical, yet straight-forward style of writing.  Her books are somehow timeless in content and ageless relative to the intended reader.  The stories are kind, gentle, and completely absorbing.  And each is totally unique.  They are particularly favorite gift books.

In addition to her books, Marti brings her compelling style of writing to her work as a newspaper and magazine columnist, and you can read the columns on the “Columns” page of this website.  Some of these popular writings have also been gathered together into bound books available through this site (i.e., “Breathings,” “Yes, Barbara, There Is An Aiken,” and “Falling in Love with Aiken, Again”).

Books

Blinding the Moon

Available for $19.95


“Blinding the Moon” is a hand-numbered Limited Edition release, Marti Healy’s ninth book, her third novel, which features a unique approach for her relative to story development. It is structured around the highly fictionalized yet real life experiences of two of her friends: Chad Mitchell, former folk singer with The Chad Mitchell Trio, and photographer/storyteller/former rail-rider Dale Wickum (whose own work can be found on the website “Following the Tracks”).

Breathings

Tiny Stories for the Thin Places of Your Heart.

Available for $25


There are 61 tiny stories in “Breathings,” selected from several hundred of Marti’s newspaper and magazine columns, written over the span of more than a dozen years.  She chose them simply because she liked them best.  And because they represented the thin places of herself – the “breathings” of her own heart. Hopefully, they will resonate with yours.

Walking with Dogs: A Spiritual Journey

Available for $22


Walking with Dogs is a spiritual journey – not the author’s alone, but for anyone reading this book, and anyone who has ever loved and learned from sharing a life with a dog.

The God-Dog Connection

Things I’ve learned about God and Faith from the Dogs and Cats in my life.

Available for $19.95


The God-Dog Connection was Marti’s first published book, and continues to be the most popular of her works. It is a collection of 25 short stories or vignettes that are faith-based and animal-oriented.

The Rhythm of Selby

A gently mysterious novel of the South

Available for $20.00


Marti’s first novel, The Rhythm of Selby, based on her experiences when she first moved to the small southern town of Aiken, won a Bronze Medal for Popular Fiction from the Independent Publishers Awards for Excellence, and two Indie Awards for writing and design.

The Secret Child

Available for $20.00


Marti’s second novel, titled The Secret Child, appeals to a wide range of readers, including Young Adult and Adult. It was inspired by a local grave marked only with the mysterious words: The Little Boy, 1855. The book picks up where the real story seems to end. It was selected as an Okra Pick by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA), and was a finalist for the DaVinci Eye Award of the Eric Hoffer Book Awards.

Yes, Barbara, There Is An Aiken

Available for $15.00


Marti’s fourth book, Yes, Barbara, There Is An Aiken, is a collection of 50 of her columns written for The Aiken Standard, and captures the essence of the American South through this small, charming town; it is proving to be of reader interest far beyond its geographical borders.

The Childornot Tales

Written for the imagination, told in the music of rhythm and rhyme, and meant for the child in all of us.

Available for $20


They began as improv-storytelling on the family front porch more than half a century ago. Marti would tell story after story of silliness about a heliotrope fly with suction-cup feet to her younger sister. Together they shared a great deal of laughter, bonding, and love. But until now, these stories were never written down.