I am seeing a lot of confusion today about how the Political Violence Blame Game works. As a Professional Internet Zoologist, allow me to help educate you.

The 72 hour rule is still in effect for the Minnesota shooting, but with the facts available so far it’s not looking good for The Narrative. But from what I’ve seen this morning that sure isn’t holding liberal internet morons back from screaming about how “right wingers” have “legitimized political violence”, like violence is such a common right wing cultural thing, while the left are just out there showing kindness.

That’s a great theory, as long as you ignore lefties:

-shooting republican congressmen at a baseball game,

-trying to murder a Supreme Court Justice,

-trying to firebomb a democrat governor,

-shooting Israeli embassy employees,

-assassinating a health insurance CEO (and then the left glorifying that guy into a rock star sex symbol),

-setting Tesla stores on fire and screwing with random people’s cars in general,

-firebombing Jewish senior citizens,

-torching RNC HQs (ironically, googling this one to refresh my memory turned up a bunch of these that I’d not even heard of!).

-“globalizing the intifada”,

-beating up a republican senator,

-shooting a democrat mayor,

-running a republican legislator off the road because they’re upset about healthcare,

-attempting to stab a republican congressional candidate,

-swatting EVERYBODY, up to and including the FBI director(!),

-holding a few HUNDRED riots, with uncountable of acts of violence, arson, and looting. This one lumps in all the fun fire bombings, car flippings, bike lock beatings, and wacky political violence the left has turned into an art form.

-and not one, but two, assassination attempts on Donald Trump.

What’s funny is that listing some of those, I’m reminded it’s amazing how fast they dropped out of the news cycle. Some of these just barely happened, were incredibly violent, yet poof, 24 hours later they’re never mentioned again. You know if a racist white dude hit a bunch of elderly holocaust survivors with a Molotov cocktail that would be the biggest news story of the year and we’d never hear the end of it.

But in the spirit of moral equivalence, republicans have

-January 6th REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

-The FBI and a couple mentally handicapped guys plotted to kidnap a governor.

-a schizophrenic illegal immigrant leftist hit Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer. I’m not sure how we got assigned this weirdo, but it’s on every single list of political violence I googled.

-and an apolitical schizophrenic shot a democrat congress woman. Which again, has nothing to do with republicans, but I don’t make the rules.

Other than that republicans are responsible for all crimes committed by white men, regardless of political affiliation or motivation, but democrats are not responsible for any crimes committed by any other demographic and HOW DARE YOU?!? Every crime committed by a white man is political violence somehow, even if he’s a democrat. Every crime committed by someone else is not. This might be hard to grasp for normal sane people, but this is super obvious if you’re a journalist.

The left also thinks stuff like blocking traffic with their bodies is totally cool and not at all threatening to the poor bastards trapped in the vehicle now surrounded by several hundred screaming psychopaths, but God help you if you panic and try to escape.

But Mr. Internet Zoologist, what about the multitude of regular violent crimes that happen? Who gets blamed for those?

Don’t worry kids. You just need to remember the rules. If someone who can nominally be connected to the republicans commits a crime, then that’s a newsworthy hate crime. If they aren’t connected to the republicans at all, it is still the republicans fault for “raising the temperature” or “heated rhetoric”.

So for example, someone nominally connected to the right hits two protestors with a car, end of the world come apart time. A racist lunatic drives a car through an entire parade of innocent people, that’s Kyle Rittenhouse’s fault for having the gall to not get murdered politely months earlier.

So if there’s a shooting, and the killer is a racist white dude, that’s going to grab headlines and get talked about for the rest of your life. If the killer wrote a giant manifesto for lefty causes, then that’s not newsworthy at all, will get ignored and promptly forgotten, except for when they need to throw those stats on the pile to argue for more gun control. Oh, who am I kidding? They just make up the shooting stats as they go! (Hey, I wrote a book about that!)

If someone on the right uses a hurt-hurt or no-no word, that’s a hate crime, worthy of outrage. If there’s an entire hilarious subgenre of tens of thousands of Tik-Tok videos of insane, danger haired, nose ringed, leftists screeching for unrest, murder, arson, and assassination, while fapping it to shirtless pics of Luigi Mangione, that’s just free speech.

So in conclusion for every example of right wing political violence you can scrape up, you can probably find ten examples left wing political violence, but none of those ever count. Just remember, we’re always bad, and they’re always good, and then you’ll never get surprised reading the internet!

Quick Update Post –
I’m working on a lot of different things, and some of them have been made public recently, so I might as well list them all.
Being worked on right now in 2025 (note, this is being worked on, not released, I don’t control release dates so quit yelling at me)-

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• Gun Runner graphic novel. This is an adaptation of the novel by me and John Brown, by comic book legend Mike Baron through Hound Dog Media (the same people who did Ringo’s Black Tide graphic novel). It is in the early stages of crowd funding and test art now.
• MHI Memoirs (title not yet announced) cowritten with Les Johnson, for Baen. Les is almost done with the first pass and then will be kicking it over to me. I’ll be talking more about what this one is about shortly, but it is also about another character in a different time period, only this covers a wildly different area than most of MHI’s cases. The fact that I’m writing it with Les should be a clue as to the type of monsters we’re talking about. 🙂
• MHI Memoirs (2 of them) cowritten with Jason Cordova, so yes, the 1970s Chloe novels are a trilogy. The last one took place where Jason grew up, and the next one has a big section where I grew up. Jason’s working on #2 now, but keep in mind he’s been having a lot of health challenge so yelling at us ain’t gonna speed it up.
• Academy of Outcasts 2, I’m 60k words into it. The goal here is to have it done and ready for preorder by the time book 1 releases in October. This is the new progression fantasy series from Aethon, where I get to do fun adventure D&D style fantasy stuff (a nice change after wrapping up a dark and heavy 6 book series about genocide and caste systems!) I’m discovery writing this series, and that’s been a fun experiment so far (and fast!).
• (title not announced yet) of (series title is awesome, but not announcing that until we show off the next bullet point in public) the new contemporary fantasy series for Ark. 30k words in and fully outlined. This one is my take on the lone wandering hero/vigilante archetype style story. (strangely enough it’s probably more realistic and tactically grounded than Reacher, even though there’s supernatural monsters in it) It’s set in the American west, modern days, and is really bad ass. Think cowboy Repairman Jack meets Haunted Mesa, with Correia level violence. 😀
• The graphic novel tie in for (title not yet announced) of (new series). Ark wanted to try something with this release so there’s going to be a graphic novel that ties in with the series. This is being drawn now by Alex Wisner (he’s been sending me the art roughs as he goes, and it’s really friggin’ cool) and the script was written by me. This is the first and only time I’ve ever written a graphic script, so that was cool. (this was also why I had pictures of me posing in a plate carrier with a particular handgun the other day, for art reference).
• Monster Hunter Files 2 – My co-editor is Jason Cordova. I believe we have most of the stories in.

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In process now, and planned to do/start in 2026-
• THE BIG ONE- mainline MHI #9 and #10. Monster Hunter Trespass and Monster Hunter Omega. I’ve got a whole other giant post full of details about those, but yeah, the Owen storyline for MHI is heading into the final stretch. The plan is to have these released back to back.
• And because people keep asking if that’s the end of MHI books, no. But it is the wrap up for Owen’s arc. Creatively, there’s still plenty of other stories to be told in that universe. And, capitalistically, I’ve made a lot of money writing MHI. 😀
• Academy of Outcasts 3 (under contract)
• (Unnamed Ark project) 2 (under contract)
• Lost Planet Homicide continuation (this one may move up or down in the timeline depending, because being novellas they don’t take very much time to write so they get squeezed in between other projects). I love this universe though, and at some point I’ll have enough novellas to compile them into a print/ebook and they’ll no longer be an audio exclusive.

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Future writing projects –
• Too many to list. I’ve got so many friggin’ cool ideas.
• But because you specifically keep asking, yes, I do plan on doing another Grimnoir trilogy. But people keep throwing large sums of money at me to do other stuff for them.
• Servants of War 2, cowritten with Steve Diamond, but the delay on this is the same reason WriterDojo is on hiatus, as in Steve got a huge promotion and his corporate mega job and he’s slammed.
• We’ve talked about an “Old Man Lorenzo” and possibly returning to the Dead Six universe, but that’s back burner for now. The idea of that mean bastard as a senior citizen is hilarious to me though.
• Tom Stranger? Hard to say. I love Tom but Tom Stranger stories just kind of spring into existence when current events converge in a particularly silly way.

So there you go. My biggest issue is I am human, and if I write more than 10k words a week my brain starts to turn to mush. 🙂

Hey guys, we are crowd funding a Gun Runner graphic novel.

This is adapted from the book by me and John Brown. Comic book legend Mike Baron is writing it.

https://hounddog.media/product-category/gun-runner-volume-one/

You can order now and get special things like art pieces, or even get yourself a cameo drawn into the book. Since we’re crowd funding this, any help boosting the signal is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

The Graveyard of Demons audiobook is available now!

Graveyard of Demons (audio)

The 6th and final audiobook, Heart of the Mountain will be out later this year. I believe around October.

I wrote this the other day on Facebook because people kept interrupting unrelated posts to ask so I spilled the beans. Posting it to the blog too-
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Because I can’t promote anything without people asking me “when’s the next Monster Hunter” (and I’m not a one trick pony, I’ve got a bunch of different series ongoing, so this is pretty much constant) I guess I need to throw something official out there to get people off my back.

MHI #9 and #10 are getting written back to back in 2026.

There is something very special planned for the release of these two, which I can’t talk about yet. Which is why I’ve not talked about it yet. Which is why it doesn’t do you any good to keep asking me about it.

And if you want to guess why these are special, #9 is tentatively titled Monster Hunter Trespass, and #10 is Monster Hunter Omega… Yes. Omega. Which for those you who’ve followed my career since the beginning, that means what you think it means.

Now do you get it?

So preemptive, FAQs-

No. I can’t tell you what I’m doing for the release yet. That’s for business reasons.

Why did I write three books in 2024 that weren’t in the series you in particular wanted, and why am I writing three more books in 2025 that also aren’t the one you in particular want? Well, this is a three part answer.

Artistically, because I felt like it. Most long series start to suck. You all thought of a different series when I said that. When authors flog the same horse over and over eventually the horse gets tired and dies. MHI has made it 8 books, 4 spin offs, 2 anthologies, (and has 2 more books, 4 more spin offs, and 2 more anthologies actively in the works) and not gotten lame because I go write other stuff, and then when I come back to the universe I’m excited to be there.

Business wise, normally MHI books have been spaced out about every 2-3 years. (they were closer at the beginning of my career because I only had a couple universes to bounce between. Now I’ve got a LOT) This time has been longer because other books moved ahead in the queue. First, I really wanted to finish Saga of the Forgotten warrior, so that the final book would come out about 10 years after book 1, and it could be a complete epic fantasy series, which is kind of a big deal right now.

Next, during that time frame three other publishing houses which operate in entirely different markets than I usually do approached me about doing stuff that is totally outside of my main publisher’s business plan, so I ended up writing a non-fiction book about a topic I’ve been passionate about for thirty years (gun rights). Then I wrote a progression fantasy for Aethon so I could try my hand at KU (which I believe is currently the biggest pot of money in the genre fiction market), and finally a brand new publishing house (Ark) really wanted me to be one of their flagship authors, and they’re doing all sorts of neat unique stuff, which I’d really like to try.

(for those of you who’ve followed me for a long time you might have noticed a trend, I really hate getting stagnant. If you’re not learning or improving, you’re dying. This is how I come at everything, shooting, painting, gaming, cooking, hell I started Jujitsu at 49, whatever business stuff. Writing is the same. I can’t stand when people stop learning and get set in their ways)

When publishers offer to throw bags of money at me to do something new which I think sounds awesome and has great potential, I’d be stupid not to try it. Sorry that means you have to wait the same amount of time between books as most normal writers make you wait, but at least the other stack of books I wrote in that time period are actually pretty good too.

And third, personally, I had some really trying things happen after Bloodlines came out which I have never talked about online, which killed my enthusiasm for a long while, but I got through it. And what that was is frankly none of your business (I came back from it and wrote a bunch more books since so quit yelling at me).

But anyways, next question. Is it really MH Omega? Yes. Does that mean it is the end of the series? Not the end of the MHI universe, but it is the end of the mainline OZP storyline which began in MHI. Which I’ve devoted a significant chunk of my life working on, so you can see why I want to make sure it’s good, and do something special for the release. There are still a bunch of other MHI stories I’d love to tell, but that main story arc has an end. This is the one I’ve been planning on since the beginning.

(Another reason I wanted to finish Saga first was to see if I could stick the landing on a big series. Which I did. I nailed it. That was a learning experience. Believe it or not, I’m actually kind of analytical about this stuff and good writing isn’t just a magic faucet that can get turned on and off at will)

Okay, that’s pretty much all I can tell you about that for now.

Next question, from the perpetual whiners (who probably aren’t fans anyway, but just want to derail every promotion posts to be dicks on the internet) but but but it’s been THREE AND A HALF YEARS since the last MHI (one and a half years since Fever, but I’m sure that won’t count with these guys) this makes you just like George R.R. Martin! REEEEEEE

First off, I’m sorry you don’t understand how math works, because one of these things is not like the other (seriously, I’ve written 28 books since his last one came out. Chill). Second off, cinch up your Depends, because as I explained above to the normal honest fans, it’s gonna be a bit longer. Third, I haven’t been leading anyone on that it is just around the corner. In fact, this post here is the first I’ve nailed down anything because I hate making promises when shit happens and tomorrow I could get run over by a truck.

Okay. That should about cover it I think. Now when I get asked this six times a day I’m just going to point them to this.