John A. Heldt

Time-travel extraordinaire

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

The Refuge goes audio

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Since publishing The Mine , my first novel, more than twelve years ago, I have focused mostly on producing ebooks -- for obvious reasons. Eb...

A wedding to remember

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I don't normally go barefoot while wearing a suit, but I did just that on Saturday when I married off my son, Matthew, on a beach. Along...
Thursday, February 8, 2024

The impact of AI on art

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I first learned about artificial intelligence (AI) in the seventh grade. While reading " EPICAC ," a short story by Kurt Vonnegut,...
Friday, February 2, 2024

The City of Brotherly Love

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I have never been to Philadelphia. Once, in 1984, while driving with a college friend from Connecticut to Washington, D.C., I entered the ci...
Thursday, January 4, 2024

New priorities for a new year

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The road ahead looks different now. Three weeks into retirement, it looks more like Nevada's Route 50, the "loneliest road in Ameri...
Sunday, December 17, 2023

The road to retirement

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I started as a paperboy. Sometime in 1974, at the ripe old age of 12, I began delivering the Seattle Times in a suburban subdivision that c...
Sunday, November 19, 2023

A last look at a series

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The trilogy is now ten days old. The Duties and Dreams ebook came out November 9, the paperback yesterday. Even the Second Chance boxed s...
Friday, November 10, 2023

A duty to dream

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Be careful what you wish for. The warning, from The Old Man and Death , one of Aesop's Fables, is one of the oldest themes in literat...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Review: Band of Brothers

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For an obvious reason, I rarely watch a television series twice. A series, unlike a movie or even a book, represents a serious investment in...
Sunday, October 8, 2023

A first draft for a last book

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It took a while — three months, to be exact — but I finished ahead of schedule. With a final burst on Friday, I finished the first draft of ...
Saturday, September 16, 2023

Review: The Great

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The subtitle tipped me off. Preceded by an asterisk, it told me most of what I needed to know about a riveting comedy series. I say most —...
Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Giving a French region its due

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For some, Alsace is a backwater. Tucked in a remote corner of France, next to Germany and Switzerland, it is a region often overlooked by tr...
Wednesday, August 2, 2023

August author update

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For authors, summer is supposed to be the quiet season. It is supposed to be the time we set work aside, take rejuvenating vacations, and ta...
Monday, July 3, 2023

The dog days of summer

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I've been in a dog mood lately. My last dog, Mocha, passed away six years ago, and I miss her terribly. Because of circumstances — Las V...
Friday, June 16, 2023

Reaching for the stars

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If I have learned one thing as a parent, it is never to underestimate. Children with drive will find ways to succeed and shine. They will no...
Sunday, May 7, 2023

Back to the Evergreen State

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In the beginning, it was my go-to venue, the place where the Northwest Passage series developed. Washington state was a secondary setting i...
Saturday, April 1, 2023

Second Act of Second Chance

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The second act is usually the most difficult to write. In literature, as in life, it is the tough center of a story, the important and somet...
Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Writer's block revisited

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Of all the tools and techniques I employ as a writer, it is the one I use the most. When I experience writer's block, I take a walk. I...
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

A minor update for March

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The draft is done! At 128,700 words, it is a bit smaller than projected, but it is still big. Annie's Apple , the second book in the Sec...
Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Building a bigger Apple

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The book, now seventy percent complete, is going to be a big one. With 90 chapters and a projected 132,000 words, it will trail only The Mem...
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Taking on the Titanic

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It is the gold standard of tragedies. For more than 110 years, the sinking of the RMS Titanic has inspired books, movies, and conspiracy th...
Sunday, December 11, 2022

Looking back and looking ahead

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This year was like the proverbial month of March. It came in like a lion and is going out like a lamb. That's fine with me. After ten ye...
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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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