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!
The 6th and final audiobook, Heart of the Mountain will be out later this year. I believe around October.
Another gem from Larry’s social media- Jack
As a Professional Internet Zoologist I have taught you guys about Common Internet Shit Gibbons and Moon Ferrets. Today’s lesson is about another strange and pathetic creature which roams the internets called The Moral Equivalence Police.
Officers of the MEPD can be counted on to kick in the door and loudly announce themselves in any thread where you are talking about specific events where one side of the political spectrum has done something stupid.
“MORAL EQUIVALENCE POLICE! REPUBLICANS ARE JUST AS BAD! EVERYONE ON THE GROUND!”
So, imagine that you you’re talking about some specific current event, where a democrat made some obvious ridiculous lie in public, like say, yesterday.
“MORAL EQUIVALENCE POLICE! TRUMP LIED ABOUT (insert thing here)! SHOW ME YOUR HANDS! SHOW ME YOUR HANDS!”
MEPD officers are related to Whataboutists, but they can be differentiated because they’re more about retaining the karmic balance of the universe, where there is no relative good or evil, and everything is always perfectly balanced in sucking equally. While, Whataboutists just hoot loudly about any random topic that they think makes the opposition look worse.
MEPs are not exclusively left wing, and the MEPD does not discriminate in recruiting. However, the majority of them are liberals (as can be determined by their brilliant rainbow plumage). Right wing MEPs are rarer, but sadly, not endangered.
Being simple, stimulus/response based creatures MEPs struggle with the concept of time or proportion. So if you are talking about a major serious event that happened yesterday, like a democrat got caught setting fire to a bus full of orphans, nuns, and orphaned nuns, a senior bull MEP will crash through you window and go-
“MORAL EQUIVALENCE POLICE! I REMEMBER WHEN NEWT GINGRICH SAID A MEAN THING IN 1993! DROP YOUR PHONE AND STEP AWAY FROM THE INTERNET!”
The key to dealing with MEPs is to not make any sudden moves. Insult them slowly, and carefully, in a way that their stupid dumb brain can eventually process. Then tell them to come back with a warrant and block them. Trust me, absolutely nothing of value will be lost.
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.
My friend, and WriterDojo guest, Rick Partlow has got a new series launching today! Check it out.
Brent Parthet just wanted to be left alone.A deadly supercommando in the Southwind War, Brent had retired a hero to a wildlife preserve as far from civilization as possible to enjoy the simple life with his wife and young son.
But when one of the Southwind, the massive, genetically-engineered slaves who’d rebelled against their human masters, shows up at Brent’s door, asking for help from an old enemy, Brent will find out that the war isn’t really over. And he may have been fighting for the wrong side.
Don’t miss the start of a new military science fiction series by Rick Partlow, bestselling author of Drop Trooper and Taken to the Stars. Filled with explosive and realistic military action as well as heroes you can’t help but root for, this is military Sci-Fi the way it’s meant to be!