John A. Heldt

Time-travel extraordinaire

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

The Carsons in transition

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As I pondered possible titles for this book, the third in the Carson Chronicles series, I occasionally considered something flippant and di...
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Sunday, November 25, 2018

The road from Kindle to print

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Since February 2012, when I released The Mine , my first novel, I have put the cart before the horse. While many authors, traditionally publ...
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Sunday, November 11, 2018

Remembering the Great War

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In one of the most poignant scenes in The Show , featured on BookBub today, time traveler Grace Vandenberg tells a distant relative that Wo...
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...
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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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