John A. Heldt

Whether reading, writing, or viewing movies and TV programs, I never tire of exploring the past. I majored in history in college not because...

The questions almost always start with "why." "Why time travel?" "Why the Northwest?" "Why male protagoni...

There is something liberating about ending a series. When you bring a story to an end, you can focus solely on the task at hand and not what...

The thing I like most about researching possible settings for new novels is discovering works I might have otherwise ignored. Isaac's St...

I remember the day like it was yesterday. I clicked a button on a web page in the morning, waited impatiently for several hours, and finally...

If there is one thing I enjoy most about writing historical fiction, it's that it allows me to build a story around actual historical ev...

One of the most enjoyable things about producing novels is enlisting the help of others on jobs that, frankly, should be left to others. And...

An author friend recently asked me if I had any writing goals for 2014. I thought it was an odd question at first. Most authors have at leas...

Two projects months in the making each came to fruition today with the preliminary release of The Mine audiobook and the completion of the ...

One thing I've learned in nearly two years of writing and publishing novels is that you should never let an opportunity slip through you...