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I’ve been a professional civilian my entire life. While I do have a strange propensity for veteran mentality, I suck at military … anything.Do I go places and consider how to kill everyone in the room? Sure. I’m a writer, it’s how I get things done.Do I consider sniper sightlines in everyday things? See above. Do I have a dark sense of humor? Is traumatic brain injury just adult shaken baby

 In September of 2023, I had been recruited to join Blaine Lee Pardoe’s Land & Sea universe as an author. (See part one.)I would be the first author who wasn’t Blaine Lee Pardoe.Meaning that I was also the first author that they had to make a contract for.So, while the back room folk (I assume it was more than just Brent Evans and Blaine) worked on creating a contract for me, I … cheated

 If you go to the right conventions, you’d be surprised what happens.In 2023, the year I moved to Texas, I went to BasedCon in Michigan. For lunch on the first day, Blaine Lee Pardoe sat down with me and my wife. Now, Blaine and I had talked a few times before then. He read Hell Spawn, and on subsequent occasions, asked me a question or two about Catholic prayers and such regarding specific

 New bookBuy itWelcome to Chicago!When African Pope Julius III inherited the Throne of Peter, he expected to go to ecclesiastical war with China or Jihadis. Literal war with aliens was not on his bingo card. With humanity at stake, calling for a crusade is only rational.When the city of Chicago is abandoned to support the East Coast, three people pick up the Crusade. Samuel Weston used to be

 Something that came up the other day in my interview with Mister D’Souza is Rage marketing.We know what it is. Someone says something offensive, stupid, or unfunny in order to get clicks. Or they provoke online fights so they can get more eyeballs on their social media profile. BS like that.You may have noticed, I don’t play those games. Why?Eh. You know you what? Forget that. I don’t like

 I wanted to do a follow-up to this post. You may remember that the premise of BS Fatigue was that I didn’t think that the failure of superhero films was “superhero fatigue.” My thesis was that the failure lay more in the lack of quality control, and saturation of political nonsense stuffed into plots and casting and marketing.Since then, how was 2025?Oh dear, however did that happen?

Pardon me as I channel my inner Critical Drinker.Long time ago, back when people still cared about comic book films … or any films … I would break down ads, and analyze certain things from a writing point of view.I haven’t done many in the last few years because, well, I haven’t seen a single ad that I cared about one way or another. Some of these characters were ruined before the ad dropped

What would I do with Special Circumstances in original stories? I’d have the bad guys be smarter, for one. Thus far, the Special Circumstances villains all want to engage with Ringo’s heroine immediately. The Scuttlebutt asked:If I could play in any current series, what would I choose?Um … The one with the best sales?I don’t know. At one point I considered Monster Hunter International. Just a