About the Author

John T. Cullen, a San Diego author of fiction and nonfiction, lives with his wife, son, and cat in the 1870s town of Grantville, within San Diego city limits. Cullen specializes as a history and science writer. His vivid historical knowledge, and his imaginative fiction, combine to recapture the 19th Century spirit of Charles Dickens with this 21st Century dark holiday fantasy. Ray Bradbury read John's novel and sent a personal letter of praise. Now you can enjoy the story as well. Among John's other works: the true crime analysis Dead Move: Kate Morgan and the Haunting Mystery of Coronado (2008), he was the first researcher to plausibly explain the 1892 true crime at the U.S. National Landmark Hotel del Coronado, source of a premier national ghost legend. He explains the violent and mysterious 1892 death of the Beautiful Stranger at the hotel, thus solving a cold case well over a century old. The author followed with a noir period novel (Lethal Journey), closely based on the true analysis in Dead Move. He is the author of an acclaimed virtual tour of ancient Rome, titled A Walk in Ancient Rome (first authorized edition due out 2015 from Clocktower Books). His fiction includes historical novels (The Spy's Daughter, Lethal Journey) and suspense thrillers (Doctor Night, Vanished Flight 777). Autumn of the Republic is a political thriller and thought experiment based on the terrifying premise: "What if we, under Article V, called a 2nd Constitutional Convention (CON2) to revise or even discard the 1787 Constitution?" His novel, written as an entertaining thriller, is the first to actually think through many details and ramifications. It's been adopted by major university law school libraries as reference material. His June 2014 novel Vanished Flight 777 is a thriller and thought experiment on the premise that Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 may not have crashed into the Indian Ocean, but was hijacked by Islamic terrorists, is being weaponized, and will be used in a horrifying attack like those of 9/11. He is recognized as an early pioneer in online science fiction publishing, both for his writing and publishing under the pseudonym John Argo, and for editing and publishing the acclaimed pioneering online speculative fiction magazine Deep Outside SFFH, later Far Sector SFFH (1998-2007) - more information at his author website (www.johntcullen.com).