John A. Heldt

Time-travel extraordinaire

Friday, October 19, 2018

Review: Beneath a Scarlet Sky

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For as long as I can remember, I have been drawn to books about World War II. From Gordon Prange's At Dawn We Slept , which I read in co...
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Monday, September 3, 2018

Another day, another draft

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"Writing the last page of the first draft," author Nicholas Sparks once observed, "is the most enjoyable moment in writing. ...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

Becoming a grandfather

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Like many Baby Boomers, I have always thought of grandparents as older people. Women who sit in rocking chairs and knit sweaters. Men who te...
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Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Taking a summertime break

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According to Alan Cohen, author of more than twenty inspirational books and CDs, "There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest....
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Thursday, June 14, 2018

Getting an on-site inspection

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There is nothing like visiting the scene of a scene to stir the senses and get a genuine feel for a time and place. I should know. I have do...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018

A 'Tree' that bloomed early

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I had originally planned this one for August. That was back in the tentative days of October, when I thought I would need ten months to plan...
Friday, April 6, 2018

Review: Hotel on the Corner . . .

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It remains one of the most troubling chapters in U.S. history. In the spring of 1942, more than 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry, most...
Monday, March 19, 2018

Finding family roots in fiction

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Like my brother-in-law, who can trace his lineage to the Mayflower , and millions of others, I am a fan of genealogy. For many years, I taug...
Sunday, February 18, 2018

Finishing a draft and more

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I exceeded Stephen King's ninety-day limit on drafts and departed from my "plotter" outline on more than one occasion, but in ...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Using the cumbersome comma

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For me, the comma has always been the most problematic of punctuation marks. As a newspaper reporter in the 1980s and 1990s, I was taught to...
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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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