John A. Heldt

Time-travel extraordinaire

Saturday, April 1, 2017

Review: The Johnstown Flood

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For me, each new novel begins not with a keystroke on my laptop but rather with a book, a web site, or even a movie. It begins with an effor...
Sunday, March 19, 2017

Review: The Black Widow

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When it comes to reading thrillers, I must admit I’m a creature of habit. I am far more likely to read the ninth novel of an author I like t...
Thursday, March 16, 2017

Book tag: a new Q and A

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As a blogger and an author, I am occasionally invited to participate in activities designed to raise the profiles of bloggers and authors. S...
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Sunday, March 5, 2017

March roundup and more

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If there is one thing I’ve learned about readers in the past five years, it’s that they like books in bunches. So for the second time in two...
Thursday, February 9, 2017

An American Journey ends

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Like every other writer on the planet, I am often advised to write what I know. For more than five years, I have proudly ignored that advice...
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Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Having fun after five years

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I remember the day like it was yesterday. I clicked a button on a web page in the morning, waited impatiently for several hours, and finally...
Sunday, January 8, 2017

Planning a series the right way

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The first thing I learned when creating the American Journey series was that writing a series was much different than writing a single nove...
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Sunday, January 1, 2017

New goals for a new year

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I have never been a big fan of New Year’s resolutions. All too often, they are not realistic. They are things we should file under "...
Monday, December 19, 2016

Behind a holiday masterpiece

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One of the things I like most about this time of year is that people and organizations focus more on disparities in society and the needs of...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

A first draft for a last book

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Fifty-five days after telling others I would not begin writing the fifth American Journey book until January 1, I have finished its first dr...
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Saturday, November 12, 2016

Starting down the final road

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There is nothing like bringing a series to an end to focus the mind. Authors pay more attention to details and getting it right because they...
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Friday, October 7, 2016

Review: Edge of Eternity

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I am not a fast reader. I almost never finish a book before it’s due at the library and usually max out my renewals before bringing it back....
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Review: Timeless

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Like a lot of people, I love time travel. I’ve written nine time-travel novels and read or watched everything from A Sound of Thunder , Time...
Friday, September 16, 2016

Review: Brooklyn

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I don’t watch a lot of movies these days. One reason is that I don’t take the time to watch them. Another is that I don’t find current offer...
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Friday, September 2, 2016

Finding fun in the Fifties

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In every series there is usually one novel the author looks forward to writing the most. For some, it’s the first book, the one that sets th...
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Giving a nod to my better half

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She is usually the first person I consult on writing matters and the contributor I trust the most. She is the person most likely to recogniz...
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Thursday, July 14, 2016

A finished first draft and more

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It took seven weeks, a lot of sweat, and some swearing at the cat (just kidding), but I finally got it done. The first draft of Class of ’59...
Sunday, June 5, 2016

Getting a jump on novel nine

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Those who know me well know that I rarely keep my word when I say I will take a long break between books. The temptation to jump into the ne...
Monday, May 9, 2016

Review: Friction

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There’s a reason Sandra Brown , author of more than 50 New York Times bestsellers, is still going strong 35 years after publishing her firs...
Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Two more for the audio files

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As a reader for the past couple of years, I have really been a listener. More often than not, I have selected audiobooks over print and digi...
Friday, April 22, 2016

Putting disaster on center stage

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One of the things I enjoy most about writing time-travel novels set in twentieth-century America is learning about the people, customs, and ...
Friday, April 15, 2016

A book with a bit of everything

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If there is one thing I’ve learned in four years as an indie author, it’s that people like certain things in the books they read. They like ...
Friday, April 1, 2016

Touting the tools of the trade

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As one who came of age in the early 1980s, I remember what writing was like before Microsoft Word, spell check, and the Internet. I remember...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

Review: The Martian

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When it comes to movies and books, I’m not a first-run or first-edition kind of guy. I will almost always wait until the works are inexpensi...
Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Pictures, words, and covers

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According to a saying popularized by newspapers, a picture is worth a thousand words. It can say things that even a hundred words cannot. It...
Monday, February 29, 2016

Review: Of Mice and Men

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I barely remember the first time I read Of Mice and Men . It was one of those classics I read in school because I had to. As a teen in the 1...
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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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