John A. Heldt

Time-travel extraordinaire

Monday, November 16, 2015

Review: Unbroken

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As a reader, I am not easily impressed. I have read more than 500 books and wouldn’t consider more than 30 great works of literature. Every ...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Remembering our veterans

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If there is one American holiday that never seems to get its due, it is Veterans Day. Lost in the maze between Halloween and Christmas, it i...
Sunday, October 25, 2015

A Halloween treat for the ages

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If there was one event that dictated the primary setting of Mercer Street , released last week, it was a radio broadcast that was supposed t...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Driving down a different Street

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I admit I resisted writing this book. Even as one who had written six novels set in the twentieth century, I resisted writing about the 1930...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Back to the Present Part II

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It’s been a while since I’ve seen Back to the Future Part II . Maybe twenty years, in fact. But today, the movie is fresh in my mind, if not...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Making The Journey to audio

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Of the six time-travel novels I have published in three and a half years, The Journey is perhaps the least like the rest. It is easily my s...
Thursday, October 1, 2015

Review: Radiant Angel

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I never tire of reading Nelson DeMille . There is no one in the business who combines suspense and humor as well as the New York novelist, w...
Friday, September 4, 2015

When life influences art

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As a sports fan, I generally root for the underdog. If my favorite team is not playing in a game or in the hunt for a playoff spot, I side w...
Friday, August 14, 2015

Heading down new roads

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One of the first things I learned as a self-published author three years ago was that I was more than an author. I was a businessman who had...
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Saturday, August 1, 2015

Review: The Finest Hours

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As I noted in a review of Timothy Egan’s The Big Burn more than two years ago, I don’t read many non-fiction books. And, when I do, I tend ...
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John A. Heldt
John A. Heldt is the author of twenty-six bestselling time-travel novels. The former reference librarian and award-winning sportswriter has loved getting subjects and verbs to agree since writing book reports in grade school. A graduate of the University of Oregon and the University of Iowa, Heldt is an avid fisherman, sports fan, coin collector, and reader of thrillers and historical fiction. When not sending contemporary characters to the not-so-distant past, he weighs in on literature and life at johnheldt.blogspot.com.
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