John A. Heldt

If there is one thing I like about researching a new book, it is learning about people, places, and times I have never met or experienced. I...

As one who has written fifteen novels that blend both fact and fiction, I know firsthand the importance of getting it right. Writing about t...

Camp Lake makes its first big media splash this morning at the Reading Cafe . The Canadian blog, which has reviewed all but one of my fifte...

I admit I miss the characters already. Even though the proverbial ink has not yet dried on the Carson Chronicles series, I miss the fiction...

Some important updates . . . For the fourth time in three years, I will work with talented actor and voice-over artist Allyson Voller on ...

In On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft , Stephen King advises fellow scribes to "Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open....

When I was a resident of the Treasure State, I knew all about one of its most tragic chapters. One cannot live within a stone's throw of...

To be sure, Washington, D.C. has changed in the last 35 years. Construction fences and security barriers surround everything from the Whit...

I am what you might call an American homebody. Though I have visited forty-seven states and plan to visit the remaining three -- Alaska, Haw...

The best summer of my life began on a winter day. Like countless other Oregon college students in 1983, I spent much of that winter looking ...