John A. Heldt

To say that Ken Follett is one of my favorite authors is a serious understatement. I have read eighteen of his novels, including four of hi...

E.L. Doctorow once said, “Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whol...

A few years ago, before I began writing novels of my own, I used to jump on every thriller that hit the bestsellers list. Vince Flynn became...

Of all the bloggers I've worked with in the past three years, few have been more helpful than Joyce Lamb. The curator of USA TODAY’s Hap...

Author Sally Koslow once compared writing a book to "giving birth to an elephant." Even as a father who has seen the inside of ...

This time of year there is no shortage of stories about the magic of Christmas. No matter where you look — in the news or in everyday life —...

The errors are usually minor: an anachronistic figure of speech, an unnecessary adjective, a missing preposition, or an incorrect date. On o...

Of all the things I appreciate about being an author in the digital age, nothing beats being able to reach a global audience. I have never b...

To be sure, Galveston, Texas, is not the place it was 114 years ago. Like every other mid-sized city in America, it has modern buildings, st...

There is nothing like a disaster as a backdrop for a book or a film. Disasters are, by definition, dramatic. They bring out the heroes, cowa...