John A. Heldt

Time-travel extraordinaire

Friday, September 6, 2019

Audio, sales, and new releases

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Some important updates . . . For the fourth time in three years, I will work with talented actor and voice-over artist Allyson Voller on ...
Sunday, September 1, 2019

For writers, advice is abundant

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In On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft , Stephen King advises fellow scribes to "Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open....
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Review: Young Men and Fire

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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...
Monday, August 12, 2019

Returning to the capital

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To be sure, Washington, D.C. has changed in the last 35 years. Construction fences and security barriers surround everything from the Whit...
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Friday, July 12, 2019

A visit to Molar City

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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...
Monday, July 1, 2019

Remembering a summer

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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 ...
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Saturday, June 1, 2019

Visiting the venues, Part II

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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 ...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

May update and giveaway

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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....
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Returning to a golden age

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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. ...
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Sunday, May 5, 2019

Springtime in the Rockies

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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...
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Monday, April 1, 2019

In defense of plain language

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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...
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Sunday, March 24, 2019

Review: TURN

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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...
Saturday, March 23, 2019

A first draft for novel fourteen

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I needed seven weeks and enough keystrokes to fulfill two NaNoWriMos, but I got it done. Hours before the vernal equinox, an occasional time...
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Friday, March 15, 2019

A meet-and-greet for March

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Experts advising authors rarely stray from the message. If you want to sell books in a highly competitive marketplace, they say, you have to...
Friday, February 1, 2019

Finding inspiration in music

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Writers are notoriously quirky creatures. James Joyce, I recently read, liked to write while lying on his stomach. Lewis Carroll preferred ...
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Friday, January 4, 2019

Book trivia for the new year

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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...
Sunday, December 30, 2018

The blessings of getting older

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I remember the morning of my twelfth birthday like it happened yesterday. After delivering the Seattle Times between four thirty and six, w...
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Thursday, December 13, 2018

A December to remember

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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...
Wednesday, November 28, 2018

The Carsons in transition

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As I pondered possible titles for this book, the third in the Carson Chronicles series, I occasionally considered something flippant and di...
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Sunday, November 25, 2018

The road from Kindle to print

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Since February 2012, when I released The Mine , my first novel, I have put the cart before the horse. While many authors, traditionally publ...
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Sunday, November 11, 2018

Remembering the Great War

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In one of the most poignant scenes in The Show , featured on BookBub today, time traveler Grace Vandenberg tells a distant relative that Wo...
Friday, October 19, 2018

Review: Beneath a Scarlet Sky

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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...
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Monday, September 3, 2018

Another day, another draft

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"Writing the last page of the first draft," author Nicholas Sparks once observed, "is the most enjoyable moment in writing. ...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

Becoming a grandfather

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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...
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Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Taking a summertime break

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According to Alan Cohen, author of more than twenty inspirational books and CDs, "There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest....
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Thursday, June 14, 2018

Getting an on-site inspection

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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...
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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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