John A. Heldt

Of all the rules Stephen King has laid down for writers, none gets my attention like this one: "You have three months." That’...

Oxford defines writer’s block as "the condition of being unable to think of what to write or how to proceed with writing." It ...

There was a time when I went through James Patterson novels like some people go through newspapers. In a stretch of five years, I read thir...

I have sought its assistance when writing every book. When preparing The Mine and The Mirror , I asked it for information on the peacetim...

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 —...