About Hal

A.J. (Hal) Halyard is a recovering doomsday survivalist and former combat sports enthusiast. Now, instead of preparing for when everything goes to hell, he dreams up ways to put monsters in gunfights while the fate of the world hangs in the balance.

Hal grew up in Pittsburgh and studied psychology. He now lives in Southwest Florida living the life of a tech consultant and part-time pool bum with his amazing wife and their three cats. When he’s not writing or working, he spends most of his free time cooking, tending to his native pollinator garden, dodging snakes, and feeding invasive pests to the buzzards out back.

He’s been known rip his Jeep through swamps and sand dunes on occasion, enjoys running, and loves to paddleboard, but he’s just as content lounging in the pool with a reposado tequila on a king cube vibing to classic rock, 80s pop, and hair metal.

While he doesn’t train as hard as he used to, he’s still handy with the steel and can shoot a bow well enough to keep a family fed.