John A. Heldt

Now that I've written The Fire and sent it to the first of several beta readers, I've had the opportunity to devote more time to th...

Perhaps the biggest challenge facing a writer of historical fiction is creating a sense of time and place. How do you write about a time tha...

There is undoubtedly a point where every author stops reading the reviews of his or her works. The reviews become too numerous or, in some c...

Today the winners of the third-annual Indie Reader Discovery Awards were announced. The Mine fell short of an award in the Popular Fiction ...

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...