John A. Heldt

As an author, I have an uneasy relationship with social media. I use some sites, ignore others, and view still others like I might view an e...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...