John A. Heldt

Those who know me best know how to process the pledge. When I say I won't start a new book for eight to twelve weeks, they know they can...

If there is one thing I like about researching a new book, it is learning about people, places, and times I have never met or experienced. I...

As one who has written fifteen novels that blend both fact and fiction, I know firsthand the importance of getting it right. Writing about t...

Camp Lake makes its first big media splash this morning at the Reading Cafe . The Canadian blog, which has reviewed all but one of my fifte...

I admit I miss the characters already. Even though the proverbial ink has not yet dried on the Carson Chronicles series, I miss the fiction...

Some important updates . . . For the fourth time in three years, I will work with talented actor and voice-over artist Allyson Voller on ...

In On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft , Stephen King advises fellow scribes to "Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open....

When I was a resident of the Treasure State, I knew all about one of its most tragic chapters. One cannot live within a stone's throw of...

To be sure, Washington, D.C. has changed in the last 35 years. Construction fences and security barriers surround everything from the Whit...

I am what you might call an American homebody. Though I have visited forty-seven states and plan to visit the remaining three -- Alaska, Haw...

The best summer of my life began on a winter day. Like countless other Oregon college students in 1983, I spent much of that winter looking ...

The steady sea breeze was as brisk as I thought it would be. The scents of the blooming trees and flowers were just as enticing. And though ...

Since getting the bright idea a few months ago to convert my Kindle collection to print, I have made steady progress toward doing just that....

At least once a year, I am asked, usually by someone who suspects I'm a time traveler, which era I would most like to visit if I could. ...

The first thing you need to know about Boulder, Colorado, is that it is prettier in person. From the University of Colorado to the quaint re...

It is a question every writer faces at some point: Should I dazzle or communicate? Or, put another way, should I try to craft the perfect se...

As I have written at least a few times, I don't watch much television. Aside from news, sports, and an occasional movie, I simply don...

I needed seven weeks and enough keystrokes to fulfill two NaNoWriMos, but I got it done. Hours before the vernal equinox, an occasional time...

Experts advising authors rarely stray from the message. If you want to sell books in a highly competitive marketplace, they say, you have to...

Writers are notoriously quirky creatures. James Joyce, I recently read, liked to write while lying on his stomach. Lewis Carroll preferred ...

Like a lot of people, I am a fan of trivia. I find it difficult to skip a book, article, or web site filled with interesting, if otherwise u...

I remember the morning of my twelfth birthday like it happened yesterday. After delivering the Seattle Times between four thirty and six, w...