John A. Heldt

Time-travel extraordinaire

Sunday, October 11, 2020

Review: North and South

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The questions from readers usually begin with why. Why so many characters in your books? Why so many points of view? Why so many settings an...
Saturday, September 5, 2020

The best tools in the box

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Artists, it is said, are only as good as their tools. With good ones, they can soar. With bad ones, they can't leave the ground. Write...
Sunday, August 9, 2020

Next stop: The Jazz Age

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For years, I've had a fascination with the 1920s. I don't know if it began when I read The Great Gatsby , watched people dance the C...
Wednesday, July 1, 2020

A Fair setting for a sequel

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When it comes to selecting settings, I am a creature of habit. I usually pick the time and place of a novel weeks, if not months, in advance...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

Finding history in Virginia City

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Even now, I can rattle off the names like days of the week: Wallace. Galveston. Princeton. Evansville. Gulf Shores. Chattanooga. Flagstaff. ...
Sunday, June 7, 2020

Creating covers by committee

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According to an old proverb, too many cooks spoil the broth. While that may be true with some things, I have not found it to be true when ar...
Thursday, May 14, 2020

Writing around the future

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I have been in this position before. When writing Mercer Street in 2015, I had to contend with the Chicago Cubs. The Cubs, you may recall...
Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Noticing the world around us

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Since joining the ranks of the sheltered in place, I have noticed the little things. Clean air. Quiet streets. Fewer planes in the sky. The ...
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Coping with the coronavirus

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Let me say first, I feel fortunate. Unlike many who are struggling in these desperate times, my wife and I have the resources to weather the...
Monday, March 2, 2020

Review: Outlander (TV series)

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For someone obsessed with time travel, I took my time getting around to the gold standard of the genre. I didn't read Outlander , publis...
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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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