As Christmas approaches perhaps you want to Turing theme your Christmas gifts. A new childrens book, by Paul Morris, has a Turing connection: "Time Traveller Danny and the Codebreaker." The book, which is part of the Time Traveller Kids series for 7 to 12 year olds, tells the story of Danny who goes back in time and meets Alan Turing. Paul carried out background research for the book using the archives at Sherborne School where Alan was a student from 1926 to 1931. Paul also has a family connection with Turing because his father, then a clerk in a Manchester firm of solicitors, witnessed the signing of Turing’s will in February 1954.
Thanks to The Alan Turing Year for this information.
I now have a website for The Universal Machine, ready for publicizing the book when it's published next year. At the moment there's not much there - just the book's Twitter feed and a feed from this blog. Once the book is published there will be purchasing information, some videos and podcasts and reviews of the book (hopefully good ones).
The URL for the website is: http://www.theuniversalmachine.com
I now have all the elements in place for the digital promotion of the book: website, Twitter account, Facebook page, Google+ page, blog and an Amazon.com author's page.
