John A. Heldt

As an American, I'm not a big fan of royals or aristocrats. I tend to view blue bloods with indifference or amusement. As a television...

I am a relative stranger to New York. I have visited the city only once, at least at length, and know it mostly through movies and televisio...

I should have known this would happen. When I sample a riveting miniseries, I never stop at the pilot. I binge watch the whole thing -- in w...

In golf, it's called a mulligan. In life, it's called a second shot. It is another opportunity to correct a mistake, restore a relat...

If there is one thing I enjoy about writing fiction, it is pointing a spotlight at other works of fiction. In several of my twenty publishe...

I didn't quite finish within Stephen King's recommended limit of 90 days, but I finished nonetheless. The first draft of The Fountai...

I am sixty now. That means something. It means I now look at the world as a "senior" and not a boy, a young man, or even a man of ...

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...