John A. Heldt

Time-travel extraordinaire

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Audiobook: The Fountain

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The Fountain audiobook is now live on Amazon , Audible , and Apple Books ! It joins every book in the Northwest Passage, American Journey, ...
Sunday, August 3, 2025

Seeing the states in summer

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I am not a world traveler. I have traveled to Canada six times and Mexico three. In most cases, I sampled Victoria or Los Algodones for a ...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Good intentions gone astray

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I broke my writing vows. Like I have so often in the past fourteen years, I started producing a new novel long before I said I would. Last...
Monday, June 9, 2025

The shot heard round the world

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To this day, no one knows who fired first or even where. All that is certain is that someone shot a musket ball in the lush Massachusetts co...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

Getting out and about

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I don't do many public book events, but I did one today. Along with several other authors, I participated in the Henderson (Nevada) Libr...
Thursday, May 8, 2025

Review: The Gilded Age

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I should have known the programs were joined at the hip. When I began watching The Gilded Age last month, I noticed that the television ser...
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Putting a name on a novel

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When producing a new book, I usually pick a title early in the process. I knew what I was going to call The Mine , The Journey , The Fountai...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Building another bridge

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The middle book in a series almost always gets lost in the shuffle. It is like the sixth floor of a ten-story building or the third leg in a...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Drafting the drafts

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As I wrote here in February 2015 , I'm a plotter, not a pantser. I plan every book — and every series — in great detail before writing a...
Sunday, March 2, 2025

George Washington slept here

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The saying 'George Washington slept here' has long morphed into a cliché. Tourism officials and realtors use it to lure visitors to ...
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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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