John A. Heldt

One of the things I most enjoy about starting a new work of historical fiction is jumping into a time that is not my own. I learned a lot ab...

Today the only grandfather I ever knew would have turned 120. Andy Hoeme was one of those elderly icons every family seems to have: a good-h...

I don't read much non-fiction. I can count the number of non-fiction books I've read in the past decade on one hand. Those I've ...

The Happy Ever After blog at USA TODAY has gone through a few changes since it reviewed The Mine last April 21 . It has a new URL and a n...

John Corey is not the only thing that draws me to the works of Nelson DeMille , but he's the biggest thing. Few characters in contempora...

It's been nearly a year since a reader first suggested that I write a sequel to The Mine . She said, in so many words, that this is a st...

As my daughter Amy made clear to me a year ago, The Mine is a romance novel. The relationship between Joel Smith and Grace Vandenberg is no...

One of the things I most enjoy about the publishing process is picking the cover art. It is the first step in marketing a book and probab...

In keeping with the spirit of the season, I will give away Kindle-friendly copies of The Journey on Christmas Day. The promotion, made poss...

When you are busy marketing your second novel and writing your third, it's easy to forget your first. Fortunately, not everyone has put ...