John A. Heldt

I know disasters. In ten years as an author, I have written about no fewer than seven, including floods, fires, and storms. In The Fire a...

I said goodbye to my mom this month. I was not ready to. Like others who have lost a parent, I was not ready to say so long. Most of us, I...

It is not my best book — not by a long shot — but it is still the one I treasure most. It is the one that took the slings and arrows while I...

I am not big on New Year's "resolutions." I consider them empty pledges that usually fall by the wayside in weeks, if not days...

Even now, the questions come. Readers of the Time Box series want to know why I did what I did in creating the five novels. Some ask abou...

I dislike goodbyes. I particularly dislike long, drawn-out literary goodbyes that bring five-book time-travel series to a conclusion. The...

The chapter, the third in the biblical book of Ecclesiastes , has moved writers and thinkers for centuries. Even movie makers and recording ...

The first draft, I wrote a year ago, is the easy one. It's the "rough, unpolished blob a writer pushes out in a manic frenzy."...

As characters go, they are easy to spot. Though they vary in age, vocation, temperament, and even role within a series, they all have one th...

I don't upgrade covers often. In fact, since publishing my first book in 2012, I have replaced an original image with something signific...