Setting the Record Straight: The Fandom Pulse Hit Piece
Today, hours after I publicly called out coordinated harassment from WarGate Books community members stalking me across social media platforms, Fandom Pulse published what they're calling journalism. It's not. It's a coordinated retaliatory hit piece from an ideologically aligned source with a documented credibility problem.
Let me correct the record.
The Factual Errors
Timeline: Fandom Pulse claims the cancellation happened "around early October 2025." The actual date was September 16, 2025—nearly a month earlier.
"Audience Misalignment": I indeed used that diplomatic language initially. My entire X post—the one that triggered their hit piece—was about rejecting that euphemistic framing. Because let’s just call a spade a spade.
I was cancelled. Period.
"Throwing in the Towel": They claim I'm "flouncing for Bluesky" in defeat. Reality: I planted a flag on Bluesky weeks ago. Yesterday I decided to finally leave X, a platform where my account has been systematically suppressed (1-2% reach, likely from coordinated mass-reporting campaigns). Meanwhile, I'm actively querying agents for my Dark Dominion sequence and preparing Doors to the Stars for an April 2026 release. That's not surrender—it’s a strategic business pivot to build a new audience on a platform better suited to my brand and goals.
Bluesky Engagement: They screenshot low engagement as "proof" I'm failing. I literally announced my migration yesterday. I haven't started audience-building there yet. It's petty and dishonest framing at best.
But then again the entire piece is petty and dishonest. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Fandom Pulse isn't some neutral industry publication. It's run by Jon Del Arroz, a conservative author and documented serial harasser who operates in the same ideological ecosystem as WarGate Books.
Here's what you should know about Del Arroz:
Domestic Violence Allegations: Public court records document a restraining order case (Samantha vs. Jon Del Arroz). When Kingdom Come: Deliverance developer Daniel Vávra criticized Del Arroz, Vávra publicly tweeted a screenshot of the DV hearing with "Is this you?"
Furry Porn While Claiming Christian Values: Vávra also exposed Del Arroz for posting sexualized furry content (specifically Lucario imagery) while positioning himself as a "defender of Christian values against homosexuals in games." Vávra mockingly called him an "Anti Woke Warrior" for the hypocrisy.
Documented Pattern of Harassment: Author Jim C. Hines maintains extensive documentation of Del Arroz's harassment targeting multiple people including John Scalzi, Paul Weimer, Cat Rambo, and Patrick Tomlinson. Del Arroz uses autism slurs as insults. He joined Kiwi Farms—a notorious harassment and stalking message board—to continue trolling targets.
Even His Own Tribe Rejects Him: Fellow right-wing author Larry Correia publicly called Del Arroz "a narcissistic grifter" with an "exaggerated fake Christian, alpha male, try hard act" and stated "You're not on my team."
Multiple Platform Bans: Del Arroz has been banned from Worldcon (he later settled a lawsuit for $4,000 but still wasn't allowed to attend), suspended from GAMA for hate speech violations, and banned from multiple social media platforms for harassment.
This is the person whose "journalism" you're reading when Fandom Pulse publishes hit pieces.
But it gets better.
Jon Del Arroz has publicly championed WarGate’s co-founder Nick Cole as a conservative author being targeted by the industry. Cole's entire career is built on a 2016 cancellation story. He claims Harper Voyager dropped him for including an AI that opposed abortion in his novel. He turned this into his foundational narrative: "I was cancelled by leftist tradpub for wrongthink." He self-published CTRL ALT Revolt! as explicitly conservative satire, won a Dragon Award, and built WarGate Books on the brand of being anti-cancel culture.
So when Nick Cole and Jason Anspach co-founded WarGate Books, the entire premise was: "We're the publisher that doesn't cancel people for politics. We're the ones who got cancelled, so we built our own thing."
Then they cancelled me for political wrongthink.
Let that irony sink in.
What Actually Happened
Here's what Fandom Pulse characterizes as "Trump Derangement":
I criticized specific extremist rhetoric—replacement theory, blood and soil ideology, dehumanization targeting immigrants, Muslims, and LGBTQ+ Americans. Not vague complaints. This is my documented analysis with citations.
I compiled data from the Global Terrorism Database, CSIS, NIJ, and ADL tracking two decades of ideological violence. The results showed right-wing extremism accounts for disproportionate fatalities—that’s not opinion, it’s verifiable data from multiple independent sources.
I applied Hannah Arendt's genocide warning framework to analyze current rhetoric patterns. I documented democratic backsliding using V-Dem Institute assessments (they predicted in March 2025 that U.S. democracy wouldn't last six months; in October they confirmed we'd crossed into electoral autocracy).
This wasn't "derangement." This was scholarly analysis with receipts.
I posted my essays and analysis on Substack and Twitter. WarGate's CEO publicly replied to one of my posts that it was a "bad take."
Then on September 16, 2025, WarGate sent their termination email accusing me of espousing that people with their personal voting record, belief system, and values are "highly problematic and morally reprehensible."
I explicitly corrected this mischaracterization in my response, stating I'd never called all conservatives morally reprehensible—only specific individuals engaging in extremist rhetoric.
And I made crystal clear what I would continue opposing: "If someone says people like my late immigrant Muslim mother-in-law are an 'existential threat to civilization,' or my wife is somehow 'less American,' or my son is an affront to 'God's perfect law,' I will continue to shut them down, and hard. Replacement theory, blood and soil rhetoric, and overt homophobia are not topics I tolerate."
They cancelled me anyway.
Look, when you draw a clear line at extremist rhetoric targeting marginalized groups including members of your own immediate family, and someone interprets that as an attack on their "personal voting record, belief system, and values"… they're telling on themselves.
That's not "audience misalignment." That's ideological enforcement.
The Truth on Record
I was cancelled by WarGate Books for criticizing extremist rhetoric within conservatism. Members of their community (self-proclaimed “old WarGate hands") had already been engaging in coordinated harassment across multiple platforms including their own Discord server months prior to my official cancellation—and continue to do so. Today’s Fandom Pulse article—published mere hours after I called out this behavior—is retaliation from an ideologically aligned source run by a documented harasser.
The hypocrisy is spectacular. An "anti-cancel culture" publisher co-founded by someone who built his entire brand on being a victim of ideological cancellation… cancelled me for ideological wrongthink. And now Jon Del Arroz, who positions himself as a defender of conservative authors being persecuted, is running coordinated hits against me, a fairly conservative guy, for telling the truth about being cancelled by conservatives.
We can call my cancelation “mutual separation due to audience misalignment” or justify it as a “business decision” or whatever you like. I honestly couldn’t care less. They’re all euphemisms for the same thing. HarperCollins made a business decision about Nick Cole due to audience misalignment too. And he’s still whinging about it ten years later.
I just want to move on.
But people in conservative indie publishing spaces won’t let it go. They follow me from platform to platform. They obsessively stalk my feeds. When I call it out, they write hit pieces.
These are allegedly grown-ass adults acting like toddlers having a meltdown because I’m a Traitor to the Tribe and they need to show how Loyal They Are. Or something. I don’t know.
It’s childish and pathetic.
So I'm establishing this on public record because it needs to be said. The receipts exist. The timestamps prove everything.
Anyone can verify the facts if they care to.
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