Blog categorized as Front Porch

A reflection on discovering Generation Jones—the in-between generation raised analog and forced to adapt digital. It’s about latchkey kids, paper maps, privacy, boredom, and the strange resilience of living between the world that raised us and the one we inhabit now.

The publishing world normalized authors paying for exposure. Here’s why author appearances are labor—and why honorariums should be standard.

Ideas rarely arrive on command. In this reflective Front Porch piece, James Allen explores the quiet, unpredictable ways inspiration drifts into everyday moments—from coffee cups and BritBox mysteries to the shifting scents of the woodshop.

A welcome note from James Allen introducing The Sawdust Sage™, Seamus Ailin™, and the stories behind JamesAllenWrites.com.