John A. Heldt

Time-travel extraordinaire

Monday, December 21, 2020

Roaring into the Twenties

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In The Great Gatsby , F. Scott Fitzgerald depicted the Roaring Twenties in sharp contrasts. "The parties," he observed, "were...
Sunday, December 6, 2020

Enjoying the season again

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The holidays are under way. No matter where you look, you can see the trappings of the season. Those of us who cannot see snow or Christmas ...
Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Blending fact and fiction

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I like history. I like studying it, writing about it, and visiting it -- or at least visiting the places where it was made. For that reason,...
Sunday, November 1, 2020

Writing the second draft

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The first draft is the easy one. It's the rough, unpolished blob a writer pushes out in a manic frenzy. It's the tentative opening a...
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...
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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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