John A. Heldt

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...

I admit that December is not my most productive month. Like a lot of people, I typically set aside nonessential tasks and save them for Janu...

As I pondered possible titles for this book, the third in the Carson Chronicles series, I occasionally considered something flippant and di...

Since February 2012, when I released The Mine , my first novel, I have put the cart before the horse. While many authors, traditionally publ...

In one of the most poignant scenes in The Show , featured on BookBub today, time traveler Grace Vandenberg tells a distant relative that Wo...

For as long as I can remember, I have been drawn to books about World War II. From Gordon Prange's At Dawn We Slept , which I read in co...

"Writing the last page of the first draft," author Nicholas Sparks once observed, "is the most enjoyable moment in writing. ...

Like many Baby Boomers, I have always thought of grandparents as older people. Women who sit in rocking chairs and knit sweaters. Men who te...

According to Alan Cohen, author of more than twenty inspirational books and CDs, "There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest....

There is nothing like visiting the scene of a scene to stir the senses and get a genuine feel for a time and place. I should know. I have do...