John A. Heldt

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...