John A. Heldt

I barely remember the first time I read Of Mice and Men . It was one of those classics I read in school because I had to. As a teen in the 1...

Near the end of The Nightingale , a novel by Kristin Hannah , the protagonist, an old woman, makes an observation in 1995. Looking back at h...

I didn’t quite match the frenetic pace of some in the NaNoWriMo crowd. It took me five weeks to write fifty thousand words and eight to wri...

There are days I think Nora Roberts isn’t real. No one, I am convinced, could write 214 books, including 195 New York Times bestsellers, e...

I like the Christmas season. I like the music, the lights, the festive spirit, and, of course, the holiday itself. No other time of the year...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...