John A. Heldt

Time-travel extraordinaire

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

The Second Chance sequel

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Fourteen chapters are done. Two more are planned this week. Though they make up just a fraction of the ninety I have outlined in my notes, t...
Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Review: Around the World ...

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I admit I did not read the novel , the one by Jules Verne, or see the movie , the one that won Best Picture in 1956, but I have always been ...
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Review: All Quiet on the WF

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Like a lot of history buffs, I have a fascination with World War I. I have read the books, seen the movies, and featured the war as a backdr...
Monday, October 24, 2022

Review: The Empress

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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...
Sunday, October 2, 2022

Exploring the Big Apple

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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...
Sunday, September 4, 2022

Review: Longmire

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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...
Sunday, August 14, 2022

The Second Chance Trilogy

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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...
Sunday, July 10, 2022

Giving a nod to literature

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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...
Monday, June 20, 2022

A first draft for a first book

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I didn't quite finish within Stephen King's recommended limit of 90 days, but I finished nonetheless. The first draft of The Fountai...
Thursday, May 5, 2022

Writing with perspective

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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 ...
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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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