I have just been doing various updates and tweaks to the website for a book my father and I wrote for National Geographic — Mr. Lincoln’s High-Tech War. Just by the nature of the beast, in any website there are always typos to fix and tweaks to the text to deal with, and, as time […]

I’ll be wandering the halls and discussion panels at Capclave 2015 this weekend. See Capclave.org for more information about this small and friendly book-focused convention. It takes place in Gaithersburg, Maryland, about ten miles northwest of Washington, D.C.

We have reached a bit of a pause in terms of rolling out InterstellarNet: Enigma. After wheeling out the five-part serial on a weekly basis, as well as sending out review copies, making parts one and two available as free downloads and so forth, I am catching my breath before the June 30 release of […]

The best thing you can do for a book is read it. The second-best thing you can do is buy it. (And, of course, we writers would be all in favor of your doing the second one first.) But, if you like a book and want to support it, and help reward the author for […]

Two Shots of the Time Capsule Marker as taken 24 April 2015. A close-up of the inscription in one, and in the other, a reverse angle, looking toward the derelict remains of the 1964-1965 New York State Pavilion. There are two Time Capsules buried on the site. The first, buried in 1938, is fifty feet […]

Just back from a trip to New York City, where I used one amazing Time Machine (The New York Public Library Manuscript and Archives) to visit another Time Machine — The world’s first Time Capsule. My father and I have been working for years on a book about the Time Capsule (our second one, actually) […]

My father, Thomas B. Allen, was just on the PBS National Geographic Special The National Mall — America’s Front Yard. One of the things he talked about was The Washington Monument. In fact, he wrote the book on it, and here it is. Later, when I can catch my breath, we’ll get the book onto […]

I have just now completed getting all the initial bits and pieces together for releasing InterstellarNet: Enigma. One print book. (Which will go to at least two printers.) Three slightly different versions of the whole book as an ebook — one each for Kindle, Barnes & Noble, and Apple’s iBook store. (Each has ad pages […]

I’ve been charging in about four directions at once the last few days, trying to prepare materials to launch FoxBytes while at the same time preparing the materials I want to include in it while at the same time learning WordPress (the open-source software that is running FoxBytes) along with the Traffica theme and the […]

Still working on inventing certain bits of the wheel and discovering fire, insofar as getting this website up and running. One of the big things I wanted to do was set up a relatively painless way for A. Citizen to click on a link, enter an email address, and then get a free file download. […]