John T. Cullen

John T. Cullen (website: http://www.johntcullen.com/), an author and Internet publishing pioneer, in 1996 became the first person to publish entire novels online, using innovative weekly serial chapters. These novels (published under the pseudonym John Argo) were proprietary (not public domain), published to be read online (HTML) rather than portable media like CD-ROM. Readers had the added option of downloading the complete novel in TXT format, as many around the world did when they became impatient to learn the rest of the story. The novels resulted in many fan e-mails, were bestsellers in all early Web venues, and remained so for years at Fictionwise. John T. Cullen is an acclaimed author of fiction--e.g., The Christmas Clock, praised in a 2009 fan mail from Ray Bradbury--and nonfiction--e.g., A Walk in Ancient Rome, Revised 2nd Edition, Clocktower Books -- acclaimed in review galleys (text, not triremes) by academic experts and bestselling authors (release planned for 2016). Current titles include The Spy's Daughter; CON2: Autumn of the Republic (25th Anniversary Edition of The Generals of October); The Christmas Clock; Lethal Journey (A noir Gaslight Mystery based on a true 1892 crime); Dead Move: Kate Morgan and the Haunting Mystery of Coronado (nonfiction; 1892 true crime on which Lethal Journey is based); and Vanished Flight 777 (novel & thought experiment based on the most baffling mystery in aviation history, the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines MH370 in 2014). John T. Cullen's Nonfiction/History articles have been Top 10 bestsellers in their category at Fictionwise.com since 2002. His Reading Room articles cover a wide variety of History and Science topics. John T. Cullen was for a decade (1998-2007) publisher of Far Sector SFFH, an acclaimed online magazine--for most of that decade, the world's oldest professional, digital-only magazine of speculative fiction. He was also the creator of Sharpwriter.com, rated 'one of the Web's 101 best resources for writers' by Writer's Digest in 1999. John T. Cullen is an intellectual explorer who has successfully tackled several world-famous mysteries. These include the ancient Roman Sator Square, an enigmatic, important epigram found in military headquarters and public spaces across the Roman Empire. Cullen's Sator solution offers the world's first plausible translation and explanation, after centuries during which this enigma defied explanation. Other Secrets Hidden In Plain Sight (SHIPS) articles will appear in coming months and years. John T. Cullen holds a B.A. in English (University of Connecticut, Storrs); a B.B.A. in Computer Info Systems (National University); and an M.S. in Business Administration (Boston University). He has traveled extensively, is conversant in several languages, and has lived and worked in various parts of Europe and North America. He lives with his wife, son, and cat in Southern California.