Feeney's Part - Softcover

Heberden, Marc

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798990687066

Publisher: Camerado Press, 2025

Synopsis

In the early 1980s, before news travelled by algorithm and outrage, it travelled by people... and in Sultan, Washington, it travelled through Patrick Feeney.

Editor of the struggling Skykomish Register, Feeney lives a quiet life shaped by deadlines, late-night bars, and the steady rhythms of a small town that trusts him to tell its stories. But when a powerful regional newspaper moves into his territory, advertisers vanish, readers drift away, and the paper's future begins to crumble beneath his hands.

As a bitter newspaper war unfolds and a dangerous local secret surfaces, Feeney finds himself caught between loyalty and truth, community and survival. The stories he prints may save the town... or finish the paper forever.

Years later, speaking with the son who may follow him into journalism, Feeney looks back on the battles he fought and the people he could not protect, searching for meaning in a profession... and a world... that changed faster than anyone expected.

Set among the rain-washed rivers, forests, and mountain towns of the Pacific Northwest, Feeney's Part is a moving portrait of belonging, memory, and the fragile ties that hold communities together... and the men and women who try, imperfectly, to tell their truth.

About this title

About the Author

Marc Lloyd Heberden was born on 20 March 1956 in Spokane, Washington. His early years were spent in Pullman and later Tacoma. After his studies at Southern Illinois University, Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Western Washington University in Bellingham, and the University of Washington in Seattle, where he earned a degree in journalism, he worked as a newspaper editor and award-winning journalist. Moving to Europe in the early 1980s he wrote for newspapers and magazines and began writing short stories, novels and screenplays. Outside Man was his first novel, published in 1984. Following that were The Big Tide,14 Days in July, Feeney's Part, The Norman, and Feeney's Last. His work has included that of being the commercial director for Paris based newspapers and magazines, a publications manager for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and finally a program developer creating programs and teaching books for French medical personnel. He still resides in France, in a small town southwest of Paris.

Edition details

• Publisher: Camerado Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798990687066
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 473