Author Archives: J.T. O'Connell

About J.T. O'Connell

I am an independent author writing in a number of different genres, primarily young adult. I live with a beagle named Moose in Loveland, Ohio which is a shade north of Cincinnati.

Cover for Sunlost: Underworld War!

Posted on June 12, 2013

A.J. Powers has finished the cover for Sunlost: Underworld War. It… is… amazing! There are no other words to describe it. A.J. is a fantastic artist and writer. Be sure to follow him on Twitter (@aj_powers). He did the cover … Continue reading →

Posted in Offerings, Updates | Tagged A.J. Powers, art, book cover, minimalism, Steve Umstead, Sunlost, underground, Underworld War, war | 1 Comment

From Here to the Hunger Games

Posted on June 11, 2013

Sunlost: Underworld War is finished! A.J. Powers’ amazing talent is being funneled into a cover for it. Anyone who hasn’t read Sunlost yet, jump over to Amazon.com and pick it up ($3.99 on Kindle, and $12.99 in paperback [currently on … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Commentary | Tagged 1984, 2nd Amendment, A.J. Powers, Al Gore, Alfonzo Rachel, Animal Farm, authoriatarian, Catching Fire, communism, data spy, Drudge Report, economics, environmentalism, equality, Fahrenheit 451, free markets, freedom, George Orwell, Hunt for Red October, intentions and results, IRS, liberty, Michael Moore, NSA, Panem, President Snow, Ray Bradbury, Red October, Steve Jobs, Sunlost, Suzanne Collins, television, The Hunger Games, Tom Clancy, totalitarian, Underworld War, verizon, Western Civilization, Winston Churchill, wiretap, Zonation | Leave a comment

“Sharing” Faith

Posted on May 1, 2013

I have not posted in a while, but it’s because the sequel to Sunlost is alllmoooost readddyyyyy…. I swear! Anyway, I wanted to comment on this, er… actually, I wanted to adapt a comment I made about it on Facebook. … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Commentary, Humor, Life | Tagged atheism, CAIR, Christian, Christianity, Dwight Eisenhower, enlisted, faith, Fallout 3, Ford Hood, freedom of speech, gay rights, Hindu, homosexuality, Ike, islam, islamist, liberty, military, muslim, Nidal Hasan, officers, Pentagon, radical atheism, religion, technology, Western Civilization | Leave a comment

Notifications No More

Posted on March 22, 2013

Well, Lionsgate sent a notice to mediafire who was hosting my Hunger Games notifications, so they suspended one of the files… Which is odd considering that ALL of the files were lifted from the film itself. I was hoping the … Continue reading →

Posted in Updates | Tagged Lionsgate, Notifications, The Hunger Games | 1 Comment

Red Dawn and America’s Greatest Weapon

Posted on March 12, 2013

Just watched Red Dawn and then glanced at a Breitbart rundown of the MSM reviews of the film. No one should be surprised that people on the left call such stories fascist. As Jonah Goldberg made clear almost a decade … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Commentary, Reviews | Tagged Adam Smith, America, American spirit, Arthur C. Brooks, blacks, Breitbart, charity, communism, constitution, culture, December 7 1941, Democrats, economics, fascism, firearm freedom, free markets, freed slaves, freedom, Friedrich Nietzsche, giving, Greece, Greek, gun rights, guns, Hawaii, Howard Zinn, individualism, invasion, Isoroku Yamamoto, Japan, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jonah Goldberg, Joseph Stalin, Kim Jong un, Ku Klux Klan, Liberal Fascism, liberty, Mao Tse Tung, Maximilien Robespierre, Modern Times, morality, Napoleon Bonaparte, national defense, NRA, Oleg Volk, Paul Johnson, Pearl Harbor, phalanx, pioneer, Plymouth Planation, polis, politically correct, Red Dawn, Republicans, rifle behind every blade of grass, rising tide lifts all boats, Second Amendment, self defense, self-actualization, self-ownership, Tea Party, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Walter Duranty, Walter E. Williams, weapons, West, Western Civilization, Who Really Cares, William Bradford, Woodrow Wilson, World War 2 | Leave a comment

Hunger Games Notifications

Posted on March 11, 2013

**Update: these files are no longer available. See this post for an explanation.** Things to post on this site are beginning to stack up, as I continue to procrastinate actually finishing each of them. Here’s something different, though. http://www.mediafire.com/?zdkkifp7flfkg These’re … Continue reading →

Posted in Offerings, Updates | Tagged Free, Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen, Katniss' Hunt, Notifications | Leave a comment

Thinking Doesn’t Make It So

Posted on March 3, 2013

Hamlet: Let me question more in particular: what have you my good friends, deserved at the hands of Fortune, that she send you to prison hither? Guildenstern: Prison, my lord! Hamlet: Denmark’s a prison. Rosencrantz: Then is the world one? Hamlet: … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Commentary | Tagged absolute truth, Act 2 Scene 2, atheism, Batman, C.S. Lewis, Cogito ergo sum, Dark Knight Trilogy, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.K. Chesterton, God, God is dead, Hamlet, I think therefore I am, insanity, Laertes, logic, madness, Mere Christianity, Moral Argument, morality, Ophelia, Orthodoxy, post-modernism, relativity, René Descartes, Shakespeare, The Dark Knight, truth | 1 Comment

Divided We Are

Posted on January 16, 2013

There’s not a whole lot out there which isn’t being said. In a nation of 300+ million, you’re going to have one of each. When the deepest sources of passion are added to the mix, there is no limit to … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Commentary, Life | Tagged 2nd Amendment, Alice in Wonderland, Andrew Klavan, constitution, credit, Darwinsim, debt, Europe, firearm freedom, firearms, gun rights, guns, Humpty Dumpty, Lewis Caroll, Malcolm Muggeridge, materialism, New York, New York City, originalism, poker, post-modernism, Sandy Hook, Texas, Through the Looking Glass, truth, Walter E. Williams, Western Society, World War, Wyoming | Leave a comment

Death or Discussion

Posted on October 24, 2012

Recently, I read Daniel Hannan’s Why America Must Not Follow Europe. You know he’s right, but you hate it at the same time. Mark Steyn‘s After America goes into greater detail on America’s embracing a steroid-infused version of the program … Continue reading →