{"id":10302,"date":"2015-11-02T06:30:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T14:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=10302"},"modified":"2015-11-02T06:30:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T14:30:57","slug":"you-have-the-right-to-remain-violent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/you-have-the-right-to-remain-violent\/","title":{"rendered":"You Have The Right To Remain Violent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warning:<\/p>\n<p>The following will gross out the mush cookies, sob sisters, and basically anyone with a weak stomach or who hates watching violent movies or reading violent books, etc.<\/p>\n<p>You have been warned\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Still there?<\/p>\n<p>My but you\u2019re a trooper.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, let\u2019s hit it:<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite scenes in my first novel \u201cZombie Cop\u201d (book 1 of my \u201cEnoch Wars\u201d series \u2014 book 3 will be published very soon) is when a woman starts mouthing off to the zombie cop about her \u201crights\u201d and the zombie cop (who was 12 feet tall or something by then) tells her the only right she has is the right to remain silent \u2014 and then proceeds to bite her head off in one chomp.<\/p>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know why I get such a kick out of that scene.<\/p>\n<p>But, I do.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me to the point:<\/p>\n<p>My novels are quite brutal and violent. They are not \u201chappy\u201d monster stories. They are stories packed with evil characters, who do very evil things, in a very evil world. They are not \u201cnice\u201d books. And they are full of &#8220;naughty&#8221; language\u00a0\u2014 the way people and monsters alike think inside their minds in the spiritually dark Illinois town the books\u00a0revolve around.<\/p>\n<p>And you know what else?<\/p>\n<p>They tend to be either loved or hated by those who read them.<\/p>\n<p>They are very polarizing.<\/p>\n<p>Especially since I shamelessly use monsters to show just how monstrous I think human beings can be to one another.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just violence and derangement for no reason.<\/p>\n<p>There is often a statement on the current human condition being made amidst the carnage.<\/p>\n<p>(Kinda like the old Bugs Bunny cartoons, which did the same, but with politics).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I realize probably you couldn\u2019t care less.<\/p>\n<p>After all, if you subscribe to this list you didn\u2019t subscribe to hear about my novels \u2014 you subscribed to learn about business, marketing, persuasion, email marketing, copywriting, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Well, guess what?<\/p>\n<p>I just taught you a lesson in all these things.<\/p>\n<p>(Between the lines.)<\/p>\n<p>Did you catch the lesson\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Again, the 3rd novel is set to be published soon.<\/p>\n<p>(Probably this month.)<\/p>\n<p>To get caught up on the storyline, check out the first two novels (you can read the first chapters of both books free on Amazon) here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EnochWars.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.EnochWars.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: The following will gross out the mush cookies, sob sisters, and basically anyone with a weak stomach or who hates watching violent movies or reading violent books, etc. You have been warned\u2026 Still there? My but you\u2019re a trooper. Okay, let\u2019s hit it: One of my favorite scenes in my first novel \u201cZombie Cop\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","7":"category-email-marketing","8":"category-sales-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}