John A. Heldt

One of the things I enjoy most about writing time-travel novels set in twentieth-century America is learning about the people, customs, and ...

If there is one thing I’ve learned in four years as an indie author, it’s that people like certain things in the books they read. They like ...

As one who came of age in the early 1980s, I remember what writing was like before Microsoft Word, spell check, and the Internet. I remember...

When it comes to movies and books, I’m not a first-run or first-edition kind of guy. I will almost always wait until the works are inexpensi...

According to a saying popularized by newspapers, a picture is worth a thousand words. It can say things that even a hundred words cannot. It...

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...