John A. Heldt

Like a lot of people, I don't read many classics. Classics are books we remember fondly (or maybe not so fondly) from high school -- not...

As I head into the fall and begin to market my fourth novel in earnest, I feel indebted to a group of people who have helped me to get even ...

If there is one thing I've discovered in producing four novels in two years, it's that writing leaves precious little time for readi...

The mountains are calling and I must go. -- John Muir As one who has spent nearly his entire life in the Pacific Northwest, I am no stra...

More than five months of work come to fruition today with the release of The Fire , the sequel to The Journey and the fourth book in the No...

One of the things I like most about blogging is that I can draw attention to persons, places, and things that deserve all the attention th...

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 ...